Welcome to my blog. This blog is a virtual studio visit, intended to supplement my website (click below) with a behind the scenes view of what goes on in my studio as well as in my head. Here you'll be able to share the creative process with me; see my paintings being built, hear me think out loud in regards to art and other artists and watch me create at my Railroad Avenue Studio in Orange, Virginia.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Since mid-July, 2009, I have been working on these two large canvases, (one painting), of toy animals. My models are in two separate shallow boxes on the floor, one for each canvas. Though I often photograph my models for my own enjoyment, (or for this blog), I never paint from the photographs I've taken. I always paint from observation. Working from observation has been challenging on canvases this size. Though the composition meets in the middle of the two canvases, the boxes of models do not. Instead, they are centered in the middle of each canvas where I can hover over them and paint from the center, radiating outward. It is only with luck and fate that they hope to connect visually at the edges.
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You are such a fabulous painter and now a blogger! All of this is a serious commitment in expressing one's self to the world... You must really like toys / dynamics... I enjoyed reading your posts :-)
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