Girl in a Cafe - NYC

Oil on canvas 10x10 $125

From the New York experience...

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Workshop in NYC

Acrylic and Oil on canvas 18x24

This shows three phases of one of the paintings I worked on during the very unique workshop instructed by Morton Kaish "Lessons from the Old Masters for Our Time". We were led through a step-by-step process of working back and forth between realism and abstraction to create paintings that allowed both to coexist. During the week we were also guided to look carefully at certain old master works in various museums. At the same time there two significant exhibitions of Francis Bacon and Picasso in town which we took in. The workshop and the visits to artworks all around the city was heady mix. This workshop was held at the National Academy of Design in a partnership with the Sedona Arts Center. In addition to everything else, the Academy holds its member show at this time of year which was a major boon to all. I will have quite a time distilling all that I saw and experienced. I am working on another adventure with this partnership for next year. Please Email me for purchase information.

Periwinkle Canyon

9x12 oil on canvas $125.00
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Back to some one session paintings. As simple and clear as possible in the given moment...color, values, shapes.

Tower IV

"Tower" 24x30 oil on canvas (Final version on display at Susan Pitcairn Gallery, Sedona AZ)

Stage 4 is now an oil painting but the mood and palette has changed from where I started. I will have to revisit this when I have spent some time at this spot in the spring weather.

Stage 3 Oils

"Tower" 24x30 oil on canvas NFS
Stage three has oil on most of the canvas now but I can still see the underpainting influencing the color. Hopefully there will be just one more stage...but I am thinking of changing some things...

Acrylic Underpainting II

"Tower" 24x30 acrylic on canvas NFS

Stage two of the underpainting was done with a lot of palette knife work and then brushwork into the stil wet patches of acrylic paint. This allowed adjustment at a secondary level. Most of this was done to the area around the 'Tower' formation. I will do a little more work with acrylic before switching to oil. The very first application of paint is still showing through and influenceing the colors.

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Quick Demo - Underpainting

"Tower" 24x30 acrylic on canvas NFS

This was a demonstration done in the gallery space at the Sedona Arts Center. Starting with a white canvas I did a few charcoal marks to start the drawing then jumped into a loose acrylic underpainting to start the painting process. I got as far as placing some palette knife work (still in acrylic) on the 'Tower' formation's right hand side. I anticipate finishing with oils after more development in acrylic. More later...

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Splash of Light II

"Splash of Light II" 24x36 oil on canvas (on display at Susan Pitcairn Gallery, Sedona AZ)

I am enjoying the horizontal format.

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Edge of Day

"Edge of Day" 24x36 oil on canvas (on display at Susan Pitcairn Gallery, Sedona AZ)

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Sunset Ceremony (Stage 1)

"Sunset Ceremony" 24x36 oil on canvas (final version on display at Susan Pitcairn Gallery, Sedona AZ)
This represents a "first stopping point" for this painting. Next week I will publish the next stage. There is no telling what goes on between a beginning and an end. Usually though it is something difficult. The difficult middle. Though at this stage it is the intent to "keep it all fresh", to not make it difficult. To not make the 'will to finish' something that goes too far. Bonnard said a painting is best when it is two-thirds done. What is your opinion?

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Splash of Light

16 x 20 oil on canvas $300
This is probably the 4th time I have worked with this basic composition and it is the second time on this canvas. It started out as an acrylic and got heavy even then. I sanded it down (with a power tool) and have now reworked it in oil.

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Magic Land

12x16 oil on canvas SOLD
Again exploring planes with a limited palette.

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Toward the Sky

12x12 oil on canvas (final version on display at Susan Pitcairn Gallery, Sedona AZ)
Warmer in tone than most of my work, but I think it feels more expansive.

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Tower

16.5 x 16.5 graphite on paper $150

I have done a couple paintings at this spot in the past. A recent trip to the Grand Canyon shortly after the snow led to this drawing. Maybe another painting to come. I like the square format on this. When working on paper I allow the composition to grow or shrink as needed. This strange formation actually exists pretty much as portrayed though a layer of snow is making the path out to this promontory seem more walkable than it really would be.
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At the Edge

24x30 oil on canvas SOLD

This work is on display at the "Sons of Sedona" exhibition at the Sedona Arts Center. I worked on this in the studio, enjoying, as a painter, the architectonic treatment of space that the Grand Canyon can inspire.
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Sedona Sunrise

"Sedona Sunrise" 6 x 9.25, oil on board, $85

This was a quick plein air painting at one of those spots you see as you are driving around and then have to find the closest place you can paint from that is not in the middle of the road. Sedona is one of those places that really wants to be portrayed a bit panoramic.

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Persephone Rising

"Persephone Rising" 36 x 24 oil on canvas $750

This vertical diptych developed as a way of joining two unlikely scenarios, but then finding a gestalt experience through the integration. It was then included in an exhibition on Greek Myths as "Persephone Rising". I was thinking of it as "A Fathers Anxiety as a Daughter turns 16" (she, the daughter was originally depicted on a tight rope). It was the shows curator that identified the Persephone theme. Persephone rises in the spring from Hades where she is held captive all winter. This initiates the cycle of the seasons. She has to return to Hades each year as part of complex bargain struck between quarreling gods.

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Summer Haze, Moran Point

24" x 30" oil on canvas (on display at Susan Pitcairn Gallery, Sedona AZ)
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This is a studio work based on some studies done over the summer, I enjoy the intense shifts in palette and tone created by the dramatic atmospheric perspective at the Grand Canyon.

Boynton Canyon

18" x 24" oil on canvas (on display at Susan Pitcairn Gallery, Sedona AZ)
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One of my favorite spots near Sedona. After doing some plein air studies I did this studio painting.

Sunday Life Drawing III

18" x 24" charcoal on paper $50.00
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This was a loose and bold linear study in soft charcoal. The head ended up looking a little small, though I measured and double checked the proportions. It might be the way it is sourrounded by the dark hair mass. It was an interesting angle, the same pose for the last three drawings.