Tag: JohnAzelvandre
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A new year well underway, Lifeworlds continues
Hello everyone from frigid New York City on this Valentine’s Day 2016! I’ve been retooling my studio set-up and finally (last weekend) completed the first* second oil painting of 2016 (and the next in the Lifeworld series). So here we have it: Lifeworld 36 continues the adventure. I’ve also been exploring the ever important topic of…
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Gowanus Open Studios: A personal retrospective
Gowanus Open Studios is mere days away (you’re coming, right? – Saturday, Oct. 16 and Sunday, Oct. 17, 12-6pm — details here)! Looking back, I’m amazed to see that this year’s tour will be the NINTH that I have participated in. Yes, that’s a “9”! So, in celebration of this big number 9, I thought…
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Breaking News: De-Natured, at the Old Stone House
Sorry for the last-minute announcement, but this all came together very quickly: I’m pleased to let you know that I will have work included in a show at the Old Stone House in Park Slope, Brooklyn. The show opens TONIGHT (October 15), 6-8pm. About the show: Nature is often bent to man’s needs and wants.…
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This week’s featured painting: Skandha 1 (Torso 1)
In keeping with the theme of the week, I’ve chosen “Skandha 1 (Torso 1)”, a part of my figurative series, as this week’s feature. You’ll recall that I featured Skandha 3 a few weeks ago. Skandha 1 was created in 2013. Oil on canvas, it measures 24 inches (60cm) square. It is now available through…
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This weekend: Dirty Little Drawings!
As I shared the other week, I am going to have several pieces in the Dirty Little Drawings show and sale this weekend. Here are all the details: What: Dirty Little Drawings is an exhibit and sale of erotic art featuring the male form. Each piece is on sale for $60. You can build or…
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The newly redesigned website is now live!
I’ve been very busy over the last couple of weeks with a complete redesign of my website. I decided to get back to basics and code the site myself. Admittedly this was a chore, but I think the results were worth the effort. My principal concern with this iteration of the website was to make…
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Featured painting of the week: Skandha 3 (Torso 3)
This week’s featured painting is Skandha 3 (Torso 3), a figurative piece I created late in 2013. I mentioned my figurative work earlier in the week in my post about new Etsy listings. This week’s featured oil painting is among the larger figurative works I’ve done and this one explores an interesting geometric expression of…
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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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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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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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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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