2 to Grow On
If you ever just want to check out some paintings of a slightly different ilk here are two artists that took the road less traveled. Continue reading 2 to Grow On
Month: May 2017
Dividing Green
The background is photograph taken with my phone of pieces of painted paper bisected by a strip of masking tape running across each one. The paper rectangles were arranged, more or less haphazardly, on top of the over painted surface of a work table. I used Photoshop to soften and blur the background and picked up a green shade from the paint on the table to use for the 3 lines of color that run behind the human figures. Continue reading Dividing Green
Mini Biography: Jennie Augusta Brownscombe
Brownscombe studied art in New York (at the Cooper Institute School of Design for Women, the National Academy of Design, and Art Students League) throughout most of the 1870’s and in Paris briefly in the early 1880’s. Continue reading Mini Biography: Jennie Augusta Brownscombe
What’s the Radio Frequency, Kenneth?
So … I don’t generally refer to myself as old because I don’t think of myself as old … but just remember I’m old. I listen to music a lot – virtually all day – seven to eight hours a day but I refuse to pay to listen to music. That does not mean I don’t buy music – I do. I will buy music … Continue reading What’s the Radio Frequency, Kenneth?
Subliminal
I wanted to show the persistent attempts of Republican politicians and Trump supporters who reside in the middle part of American to re-frame the nation-wide protests and multitudes of anti-Trump groups as just being about winning or losing a contest as opposed to actual resistance to the ideas, actions, and policies of the current administration. Continue reading Subliminal
Mini Biography: Mattia Preti
Born in Calabria in southern Italy, Preti is believed to have been the apprentice of a Neapolitan follower of Caravaggio named Battista Caracciolo. He worked in Rome with his brother Gregorio who was also a painter, as well as working in Venice and Naples painting frescoes. Continue reading Mini Biography: Mattia Preti
Symbolism in Art
I recently read an article on Atlas Obscura about the Merry Cemetery in Romania. What makes this cemetery unique, and merry, are the elaborate and colorful gravestones created by Stan Ioan Patras. Patras, a wood carver and epitaph poet, used colors to represent everything from fertility to freedom, black birds to symbolize suspicious or tragic deaths, and white doves to depict an individual’s soul. He carved approximately 600 markers in his 50+ year career. Continue reading Symbolism in Art
Under a Fractured Flag
This digital composite utilizes a background made from an abstract painting that I had abandoned, and three other images. Continue reading Under a Fractured Flag
Mini Biography: Zinaida Serebriakova
Born into an artistically inclined family in what is now the Ukraine, Serebriakova attended art school first in Russia and after a trip to Italy she studied art in Paris as well. Continue reading Mini Biography: Zinaida Serebriakova
Woodblock Printing
This past weekend I participated in the 2nd annual Steamroller Print Fest in OKC. It was held at [Artspace] at Untitled in conjunction with BIG INK and featured an exhibit of large block prints as well. Continue reading Woodblock Printing
A Pyramid Haiku
Painter’s life balanced above instead of below plastic yellow sides. Continue reading A Pyramid Haiku
