Oil Painting
6×8″ canvas mounted
There is so much pink and lavender in all that green.
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“Stuck”
oil painting
5×10″ panel
Scattered throughout my house and studio are natural treasures: gorgeous seashells, beautiful animal skulls, woodcarvings from Africa and New Zealand, seedpods, a huge array of beach stones, bamboo and cinnamon. Many of these have appeared in the paintings and silverpoints on The Art Fly and many more wait in the wings…
These compositions, that are part of my Meditations series, usually come together over a few days as I gradually become aware of their presence, shifting and switching elements around until it feels right. These banded stones won out this time, and spoke in a way that seemed to say: we’re stuck. Of course, I could be projecting.
For each of the paintings in this series I typically create a “floating” frame (not shown here because not built yet). But, please email if you are interested in this piece.
“Bamboo, Cinnamon, Glass”
Silverpoint Drawing
4.5×8″ prepared paper
From the top: bamboo, cinnamon, glass. Three of my favorite elements drawn with a rod of silver metal on yellow-orange prepared paper, heightened with white ink and pastel. With time the silver will oxidize to its characteristic warm sepia tone.
Silverpointwas used most extensively during the Renaissance era, before the graphite pencil existed. See many other silverpoint drawings of natural objects: animal skulls, seashells, flowers, seedpods – and portraits on my website.
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“Siesta”
Silverpoint Drawing
5×10″ prepared paper
An ordinary glass sphere with natural elements – that idea has been behind much of my work from the 1990s to this point. I’ve stopped wondering why and just go with it.
Cinnamon sticks with glass sphere…I like the contrasting textures and shapes of these objects, and their natural elegance. Look for these in a upcoming painting.
See many other pieces from my Meditations series on this blog and on My Website.
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“An Elegant Shell”
Silverpoint Drawing
5×7″ prepared paper
Nature constantly inspires! I’ve seen many lathe-turned wooden vessels whose shapes are similar to the body of this elegant shell.
Silverpoint is a drawing that is rendered with a wire of silver. This was used extensively during the Renaissance era, before the graphite pencil simplified things. The drawing surface must be “prepared” with a slightly textured formula that lightly abrades the silver. The metallic silver lines that are left will gradually tarnish (oxidize) to a sepia tone.
I prepare fine papers and panels with various tints of color: ocher, blue-gray, salmon-pink, green-gray and lavender. Visit my website to see a broader range of work in silverpoint and my other mediums.
“Sphere with Pin-stripes”
Silverpoint Drawing
4.5×5″ prepared paper
This is drawn with a rod of silver on specially prepared fine art paper. Silverpoint pre-dates the graphite pencil as a drawing medium and was used extensively in the Renaissance era. With time the silver lines tarnish to their characteristic sepia tone.
See my website > silverpoint category for a look at my home-made silverpoint drawing tools and box.
“Curious”
Oil Painting
8×10″ panel
This is one of the newest paintings in my Meditations series of work with natural objects and glass spheres. I’ve never quite found the words to describe what this is about – and I’ve been creating these works since the mid-’90s…
Scattered throughout my studio are collections of beach stones, unusual seedpods, seashells and many other natural elements. I have a love of glass spheres, clear ones especially, and beautiful tools. They are elegant sculptures to me. These things aren’t just sitting there unseen. I’m aware of their presence and I pick them up, look at them and sometimes move them to a new place to later see them anew. So, naturally, I’m draw to them when the light shines into a glass sphere, or a feather or beach stone can stop me in my tracks as I’m walking through my studio. Simply profound.
So there you have another attempt to describe my ever-evolving Meditations series.
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“Shell”
Silverpoint Drawing
3.5×5″ prepared paper
As stated many times previously on this blog, silverpoint is a drawing medium that was used extensively during the Renaissance era; pre-graphite pencil. The drawing surface must be specially prepared to allow for the slight abrasion of the silver. The metallic lines that are left will gradually tarnish (oxidize) to a sepia tone.
I prepare my panels and fine papers with various tints of color: ocher, blue-gray, salmon-pink, green-gray and lavender. Please see other silverpoint drawings that have been posted here. Or, visit my website to see a broader range of work in silverpoint and my other mediums.
“Whorls”
Silverpoint Drawing
4×5″ blue-gray prepared paper
A good way to end the day is to draw in silverpoint. It has a calming effect. Seashells are a favorite subject of mine – and the more missing parts – the better.
I prepared fine art paper with a blue-gray tone and highlighted the drawing with white charcoal. A silverpoint is a drawing rendered with a silver stylus, i.e., a silver wire inserted into a holder. The drawing surface must be “prepared” with a coating that allows for a slight abrasion of the metal. With time, those metal lines will oxidize (tarnish) to their characteristic metallic sepia tone.
Please visit my website for a broader look at this Renaissance-era drawing medium.
“A View of the River”
Oil Painting
8×10″ panel
I must have Summer on my mind. In this landscape I tried to capture those dreamlike feelings we get, brought on by something as easy as a walk in nature…spots of sunlight, fluttering leaves, a river flowing…
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