I’m having fun with the blues in Break. Break is part of the Playhouse Square Series. Break is 40″ x 50.”
Tag: unfinished paintings
anecdotes, Bio, Cleveland, Paintings, Studio Corner, Uncategorized
In the studio 7/31/16
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•Playhouse Square Trip is, as the name implies, part of the Playhouse Square series. The design is based on several photos I took during one of my photo sessions at the Square. As readers know, I’ve been working on the series for a year or thereabout. The Square is heavily frequented by office workers, visitors, and theatergoers…
Cleveland, Paintings, Shop Talk, Studio Corner
In the studio 6/22/16
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•Sometimes I have to sneak up on a painting. It took me awhile to identify what was bugging me about Break Time. The background behind the right-hand figure didn’t please me, so I corrected it today. In the process, I painted over part of the figure’s hair, which is OK because the hair wasn’t finished…
Paintings, Shop Talk, Studio Corner, Tips and Studies
In the studio 6/19/16
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•I am into the overpainting phase with Parade. although the surface is still very matte. No part is exactly done. Yesterday’s morning session went poorly. I couldn’t see. It happens. Sometimes when I take up a painting that I struggled with previously, the solution is obvious. How could I have missed it? When artists talk…
Paintings, Shop Talk, Studio Corner
In the studio 6/12/16
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•I went to our Main Street three separate times to take photographs for this composition. I won’t bore you with why it took three trips. I finally got photos I can use and cobbled together several for the design for this new oil, Woman Listening to a Phone on Main Street. I’ll probably change the title.…
Bio, Paintings, Shop Talk, Studio Corner
In the studio 5/15/16
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•I have a lot of small canvases ready to go. By small I mean in the 24′ x 30′ range. Recently, I started painting landscapes on three of them. You can see the beginning of one in the background sitting on the wastepaper basket. Yesterday I worked on the landscape seen out the window in Grandfather and had…
materials, Paintings, Shop Talk, Studio Corner
In the studio 5/1/16
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•It’s raw and cold for a May day in NE Ohio. It feels more like March than May–rainy, gray, and windy. A woman asked me why I don’t spend more time teaching art on my website. Seeing my puzzlement, she added, “You write about technical subjects related to painting, but you don’t provide instruction on…