…is getting closer to being finished. Just a stripe of second layer spartina in the foreground to be completed, then a glaze and a varnish once it is fully dry late next week!
Photographing The Boneyard Beach…
..at Botany Bay on Edisto Island this past weekend I may have found my next painting in a skeleton oak tree.
This might be the photo reference I use for a 20 x 20” painting to be including in group landscape show at RLS later this summer.
But either way, it’s always a fun place to explore with those whom you love...
Back To Painting…
…the second layer on this small (4x16”) landscape of spartina. I’m particularly happy with the transition of color from the background to the foreground.
This Past Weekend…
…Lauren and I were hosted by the exceptionally talented @june_stratton and her husband Jay. Each morning we woke up with the marsh vistas of Redbird Creek out our bedroom window, and Saturday we explored it by canoe.
The First Layer…
…is complete. Now onto the second!
This Little Painting…
…is coming along nicely. Four by sixteen inches is a good space to paint in, and I’m enjoying all the fog of late as I paint this place.
From Humble Beginnings…
…my next painting is up on the easel. This will be fog shrouded spartina, with the wrack line of last seasons spartina swirling in the foreground.
I’m Always Painting…
..but not always painting the same painting.
This is one that I started at the beginning of 2019, but have only worked on it in an on again, off again fashion.
Working this way, I get to take a break from the other thing I have going, or have something to continue on with while the other painting I’m studying dries.
You’re now scrolling back in time to see its earliest layer, and the finished product should be up in a week or two once the the painting dries enough for a glaze and a varnish.
When My Wonderful Wife…
...tells me there is a place I need to see, it always puts a smile on my face. The ensuing explorations usually turn into future paintings. This Sunday proved no different, with a little help from the trusty ladder, even trustier Subaru, and of course with Lauren as my guide!
Sometimes I Forget Things…
…Sometimes I forget things, like finishing a painting once it has been painted.
But with a glaze, a varnish, and a frame repaint, this one is done, done, done!
This is the full view of untitled landscape 135 (dream the wheel) 24 x 24” oil on panel 2019.
And finally a detail view!
Taking press photos…
...for an updated version of my life had me thinking about all the cool studio spaces I’ve had in 25 years of painting. Two of the coolest though have been with Robert Lange Studios. Thanks R&M! And feel free to drop by this one anytime from 11am-5pm. 2 Queen St. Charleston, SC 29401
I’m So Close...
...to finishing this painting, so I figured I’d post five photos for you to see what six weeks of painting looks like. Scroll down back through to the first layer of paint.
Making The Turn...
...on this painting, I’m sanding it smooth for the second layer of paint.
From here it becomes glass-like, which is perfect for focusing on the details.
Finally, the palette is set with a wider range of color to capture water.
The First Layer...
...of paint is finished, and now the fun part begins: focusing in on the details to make this painting really sing.
“Concentric Circles...
...referencing Jasper Johns, Kenneth Nolland...” said Carl Belz. If only he was talking about my painting, but this was part of an impromptu art monologue on the packaging of Lucky Strike cigarettes. Holding about a dozen slightly shivering art students, myself included, transfixed on a Boston sidewalk during a smoke break, it was one of those little lectures on art in the everyday that stuck with me. Carl had an amazing way of making art relatable and immensely exciting at the same time. If you ever see one of his books on art, do yourself a favor and buy it. And so some twenty years later, I am painting a painting that was partly inspired by that little lecture.
The Most Asked Question...
...when people walk through my studio is probably how long it takes for me to paint what I paint.
I don’t keep track, but this is an hour time lapse of a circular area with 2.5” diameter. Using some internet math, and at this perfectly focused painting rate, the two layers of this 2x2’ painting will take me 235 hours. Yikes! Back to work, as I still have a lot to go...
The New Painting...
...in its humble beginnings. Seven colors so far in this spare palette will make two feet by two feet of swirling water.
The Latest Long Skinny...
...is completely done!
Drop by RLS to see it anytime... ul 134 (this is it) 3x52” oil on panel 2018 $10,000
New Year...
...new paintings up on the easel.
Getting Closer...
...to being finished.
