My apartment is inundated in paintings, they're absolutely everywhere! It’s gotten to the point where I’ve run out of room and had to put a wet painting on top of the bathroom vanity to dry. By the next morning I saw my wife had moved the painting elsewhere. I guess she doesn’t consider the bathroom studio storage. So to reclaim some living space, I’ve decided to spend the next few weeks going through my archives and making previously stored artworks available for sale. Most of these paintings don’t line up with my current landscape style, and some are really quirky, but I thought why not give them the opportunity to find a new home? They want to be seen! So for this week I thought I’d share my first batch of newly available works. The paintings below are from the recent past: 2014 - 2017. Click on any image to see more photos of the works. I hope you enjoy.
The Pines, a 30 x 40 inch painting, is part of an ambitious series of abstract-photorealist paintings I made in 2015. For me, the painting feels like a memory of taking a long car ride into the woods and getting lost in a pine forest. The imagery from left to right includes: water droplets on a car window, close up of a pine cone, pine needles on the forest floor and the vinyl interior of a car, rotated ninety degrees.
Nautical Flags and Birch Trees is the second abstract-photorealist paintings I’ve made available for sale. This painting is 40 x 30 inches and shows a colorful array of nautical flags, a ship’s steering wheel, a birch tree and birch leaves. The painting may evoke a connection with any woods-y waterfront of your past, present or future. It reminds me of spending my summers as a kid at Lake George, New York.
Pastel Seascape is based on a painting demonstration from Bob Ross on his TV show The Joy of Painting. It was a joy making this painting. Before I got started, I made sure to have all the proper Bob Ross tools and materials, including a large house painting brush, the signature Bob Ross palette knife and a ton of linseed oil. While it took Bob a mere thirty minutes to make his painting, it ended up taking me six hours! Of course I spent a lot of that time rewinding the episode to watch his technique a few times before I committed to any part of the painting. It was a lot of fun to make this painting and I am happy with how it turned out.
Bob’s Pastel Seascape in progress
Honestly, I only dimly remember making this painting but I am loving it now. It’s colorful and weird! The painting has an underlying base of acrylic paint with touches of oil paint on the top. Most unusual, is the textural band of paint near the bottom that fades from yellow to blue. The band is composed of acrylic paint, a chunky concrete medium and a subtle iridescent medium which collectively gives the painting an other-worldly appearance.
Tree in Central Park was created in my current painting style, but is newly available. The painting shows a rather dramatic tree I came across in the southern half of the Central Park. I made this painting just when the leaves were starting to turn yellow in the fall.
Avignon Street is also not too dissimilar to my current work, but is also new to the website. Avignon, France might be the most beautiful city I’ve ever visited. This painting shows one of the many small homes inside the castle walls.
Well, that’s all for this week!
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