I love my wife. She is very good to me, and we have a lot of fun together. We have been to some very neat places.
When we were married, we traveled the Blue Ridge Parkway for our Honeymoon. My favorite days of the trip were around Boone, NC. This area has some of the most beautiful places. Grandfather Mountain is one of the best. We enjoyed hiking, crossing the mile high swinging bridge between some of the peaks, and seeing the wildlife. Near the base were some gorgeous waterfalls. Not far off we mined for gems.
This is a painting looking up at the mountain from the entrance to the park. The rhododendrens were blooming, and the mountain looked gorgeous.
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Sometimes it is hard to start a project. Sometimes it takes a catalyst. Here is an example of a painting with a catalyst. Lynley had been making some small paintings, but got disgusted, and threw them away. I fished them out of the trash, and painted over them, reacting to what she had done. I really enjoy painting over old paintings because the history shows in the added richness of the textures, colors, etc.
I spend a lot of time out in nature. This painting was influenced by my observation of streams flowing through the rocks, moss, and leaf matter.
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I will be having a solo show at Artworks Gallery, located at 311 Hull Street, Richmond, VA, opening Friday, February 25, and going until March 20th.
This show will feature a recent mix of my abstract and landscape paintings.
Come out and take a look!
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Think of summer holidays, the picnics, swimming, fireworks, and one of my favorites, as a kid, parades. Nothing beats the floats, the horses, and the brass bands playing Souza marches.
I was listening to “76 Trombones” when I painted this painting. I wanted to create the colorful, fun mood of a parade.
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It has been a while since I have posted. I have been busy painting, and thought I would put in some new work.
Sonata was inspired by listening to music. Sometimes I try to capture a feeling, and I was listening to Moonlight Sonata, by Beethoven when I painted this. It has such a quiet meloncholy feel to the piece, and was very inspirational.
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I will be participating in the festival this Saturday on Riverdale Avenue – just off of Ridge, in Macon, Georgia. My artwork will be on sale. The festival runs from noon to 6 pm. Come take a look!
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I was a missionary in the Philippines in the mid 1990s. One of the things that I loved there was the rice cultivation. Rice paddies were beautiful in every stage. First, the paddy would be flooded, which made it look like a lake. Next rice seedlings would be planted by hand, looking like a large green lawn. As the rice ripened, the stalks would turn colors, such as orange, red, and yellow, just like fall trees. The field would be harvested, and the husks burned, and then the process would start over.
Most of the farming there is still done by hand, plowing behind a water buffalo, planting seedlings one by one, sowing seeds, harvesting with a scythe, etc. It was all very scriptural.
This painting shows a humid day after the rain, with different levels of rice cultivation.
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Sometimes I like to work from a known subject, and abstract it, distilling the essence, and using the subject as a framework to play with paint and design. This is an example of doing just that.
Devils Courthouse is the mountain from my previous post. I thought about the experience of looking at the mountain from a car. I used that as the basis for the composition. I also played flat color and basic shapes off of mottled color and more complex shapes.
Enjoy!
Filed under Abstracts by on Oct 13th, 2010. 2 Comments.
I love mountains. Some of the most beautiful mountains in the world are in western North Carolina. My wife and I drove the Blue Ridge Parkway for our honeymoon, and I enjoyed spending so much time above it all. Devil’s Courthouse is a neat mountain southwest of Asheville. Here is my rendition of it.
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Bubble Toes is the name of a Jack Johnson song, which flows and has a fun little rhythm. I named this painting after the song because I feel like they both have that in common.
I used a analogous color palette, and a similarity of shape to create a feeling of unity. Blue can be such a calming color, and is one of my favorites!
Filed under Abstracts by on Oct 8th, 2010. 4 Comments.
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