A lot of my work tends to be autumnal. This one in particular seems appropriate for a Halloween post. The subject is a monkey skull in an old iPhone box. The juxtaposition seems to say it all.
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Decomposing Light
I have done a lot of small paintings around the theme of decomposing light. Using the interplay of texture and color to convey that sense of daylight transition to darkness. I recently took some photographs of some that I am preparing to send to a miniature show. For this show they can be 6″x6″ as the largest dimensions. These also aren’t the hyper-realistic, super detailed type of paintings that true miniature painters make. They are simply small but mighty?
Still
This is yet another chair painting, something sort of sad about a chair sitting alone… of course this one doesn’t exactly seem to be sitting. This was another early experiment with glass beads on an acrylic painting. The image was created with a lot of thick translucent layers of acrylic, giving it something of an encaustic. This painting was used on the promotional flyer for the Confluence Gallery in Twisp, Washington this year. The show was called “Shifting Baselines”.
Empty
In this painting I experimented with the addition of glass beads to the surface of my work. I’ve done this a number of times but this was a fairly bold version. I am always trying to find new ways to manipulate the light and cause visual changes and shifts with the angle of view.
Forgotten Words
This is another painting that went to the Tieton 10x10x10 show. Antique devices like old typewriters and phones are intriguing subjects to me. Heavy equipment so far removed from the age we live in, communication wasn’t always so easy…
Place
This is a 10×10″ acrylic painting I did this year. It was selected for the Tieton 10x10x10 show which is an annual competition held in Tieton Washington. A pretty interesting exhibit, they publish a color catalogue with the show!
The Artist is Present
When I was photographing the Agrestic Macabre paintings there was some curiosity around their presence. I couldn’t resist the urge to take a cat/bird photo, it also puts their scale in perspective.
Agrestic Macabre #3
This is the third painting in the series, I will probably move onto other work but these were fun!
Other Spaces #2
This was the second in a triptich that I did called “Other Spaces”. The images were simple and bleak but interesting, particularly together. I used paint brushes and a 24″ squeegee to create these paintings that are 20″ x 20″ each.
Agrestic Macabre #2
This is the second painting in a series of three. The paintings are 24″ x 30″.
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