Tag: Art
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Studio Notes – paysage planétaire completed
This is the final installment of my series of posts following the progression of a painting I started at the beginning of January – a “paysage planétaire” inspired in part by the work of Ferdinand Hodler and other painters from that era. So, in my last post, described the overpainting. Earlier this week, I put…
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Upcoming: Winter Salon at Trestle Gallery/Brooklyn Art Space
The Brooklyn Art Space Winter Member Salon happens this Friday, February 13 from 7 to 9pm at Trestle Gallery’s 168 7th Street location in Gowanus, Brooklyn. (See the Trestle website for directions.) My painting “Lifeworld 31,” completed in December, 2014, will be included in the show and I’ll be there in person to answer any…
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Postcards from the Edge — this Weekend!
Visual Aids’ 17th Annual Postcards from the Edge Benefit art sale happens this weekend. I’ve donated a postcard-sized watercolor painting to this great cause. I’ll be at the preview party Friday night (they let the artists in at 6pm, but VIP ticket holders can come at 5). The benefit sale is open to the public…
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Studio notes – paysage planétaire, continued
I’m getting a bit behind in my blogging. The month is fast rolling to its completion, I’ve got what feels like a hundred pots in the fire. Among those, the “paysage planétaire” I started several weeks ago continues to evolve. Last week, the underpainting was complete and I worked on the blue areas – sky…
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Studio Notes – the paysage in progress, continued
As noted last week, I’m blogging the progress on a new landscape (a “paysage planétaire” in the spirit of Ferdinand Hodler). On Sunday, I completed the underpainting: Tonight, I had very little time to get into it, so I just worked on the sky and water – the blue areas, mainly. So far, so good!…
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Featured painting of the week: “I will plant companionship thick as trees …”
This week’s featured painting is a piece I created back in 2010 for a special exhibition celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Calamus edition of Walt Whitman’s celebrated Leaves of Grass. The title of the piece, “I will plant companionship thick as trees” is a quote from one of Whitman’s Calamus poems, which are remarkable…
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Ferdinand Hodler and the paysage planétaire
As I promised in Tuesday’s post, I have found the reference to ‘paysage planétaire,’ and this makes for the perfect opportunity to give you a more extended introduction to the artwork of Ferdinand Hodler, if you aren’t familiar with him. I first discovered Hodler through an excellent exhibit of his late work at the Neue…
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Studio Notes – the landscape evolves
As a sort of journalistic experiment, I’m going to follow the development of my recently started Paysage planétaire painting through several blog posts. This should be interesting, and maybe disastrous, since I don’t know how the painting is going to turn out. For me, creating is perhaps like giving birth to something — that something has a…
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Featured painting of the week – “Magnolia”
I’m featuring a different painting each week. To start this series off, I present to you Magnolia, an oil painting I created in May 2014. This painting was inspired by photos I took of some lovely Magnolia trees in a city park in Manhattan. The color palette is very simple: white, black, green, pink and…
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Studio Notes – New landscape started
I spent some time in the studio this afternoon, stretching canvas and beginning a new painting in my “paysages planétaires” series. A big inspiration for this series is the work of Swiss symbolist and proto-expressionist (my designation) Ferdinand Hodler. (Occasionally I reblog Hodler images on my tumblr.) I believe I came across the term “paysage…
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2014: A year in review
2014 has been a good year, although I pretty much felt like I was shot out of a cannon right from the beginning. Even before I’ve started to put up the window dressing and what-not in this shiny new blog space, I want to give you an overview of the very exciting year that just…