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Clay models work for me.Make them and paint from them.How easy is that.Very easy, not easy.First you draw then you paint.Sounds easy, not.Three figures all different.Different women all the same.Never ... |
20-04-2012
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House Painting
We have lived in this house for four years now. Facing south where the ground falls away, I built a rounded terrace, somewhere I could sit outside for lunch on summer days.While adjusti... |
18-04-2012
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Foyer - origin: late 18th cent. (denoting the center of attention or activity)
This interim stage is promising - with this much in place it is easier to judge new colour placements. I say easier, real... |
04-04-2012
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The content here is universal and timeless, as the French say 'Everything changes and nothing changes'
I make no comment - only find a way to combine content with form as well as I can.
Little goes a... |
29-03-2012
Word count: 137
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 | This piece has occupied me for some time.
It began as a homage to Poussin with his figure groups in a pastoral setting.
From a site nearby I drew rocks and trees in charcoal.
The sketch was invested w... |
26-03-2012
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 | A spurt.
'found' sketches can energize
moments exist for action
recognition and movement combine for art
simple notions can be powerful
committee will dissipate purity
knife edge
now finish in the... |
21-03-2012
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 | A painting can take a long time.
Here is one I have that has been finished twice already!
Now it is dismantled and on the easel again three years later.
The piece consists of a main canvas with three ... |
19-03-2012
Word count: 189
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'The rock'
A disquiet in my mind about the arrangement of this picture caused me to neglect it until now. The frame was retrieved from the garden shed, the predella pieces from the back of a drawer an... |
23-02-2012
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 | Newborn
Late reworking is often needed - this afternoon I rework the mother completely and it is improved, and, with the sky now recoloured I feel now there is little left to do.
Always surprising how ... |
21-02-2012
Word count: 96
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The beauty of being an artist is that you can do what you like. Indeed that is required of you, but there is pressure from others to do this or that - like you did before, but its more fun to paint... |
11-02-2012
Word count: 183
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