Another small (8″ x8″) work in progress. This one is about 50% complete- I think.
I’m supposed to be finishing these pieces for presentation at festive holiday art markets. Will they be salable with the cheerful Christmas crowd? God only knows. They are coming out just as they please, though. Never been great at channeling lucre.
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Tagged breathless, embrace, holiday art markets, not selling art, selling art, thanatos
It’s a work in progress.
So is this little 6″ x 6″ painting- but it is has an end in close sight, and is very nearly there.
I have been seized by consumerist lust waiting for Sufjan Stevens’ newest release, Age of Adz, to be released. I bought it just as last night turned into today, and it delights me.
My favorite cut at this point is youtubed below.
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Tagged age of adz, I want to be well, straitjackets, Sufjan Stevens
“One must imagine Sysiphus happy.”
-Albert Camus
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Tagged Camus, monotype, Sysiphus, the only philosophical question that matters
Oil on canvas, 8″ x 8″.
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Tagged The Lady or the Tiger?
Now that the scanner is working again.
Meant to go make more monotypes today.
Instead, I’m hiding in my studio, working on small paintings for upcoming holiday shows and listening to Seven Swans over & over. Soothing.
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Tagged in the devil's territory, monotypes, seven swans, Sufjan Stevens
Oil on linen, 1o” x 10″.
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Tagged oil on linen, pooka
Oil on wood, 12″x 12″. Just a bit too big to fit on my scanner, so I tried to overlap and merge two partial scans. My photoshop skills were sorely taxed and the seam is visible- there is no such hard line in the actual painting.
Oil on canvas, 6″x6″.
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Tagged scamp, shrimp, shrimp scampi
As I grow longer in the tooth I think more and more about Sugar Mountain.
Specifically, I would like to eat lemon meringue pie for breakfast.
At the kitchen table with my first cup of coffee and the newspaper, before I’ve even had a shower. Lemon meringue pie.
My mom makes the best lemon meringue pie in the world (it was my dad’s favorite) and to hear her talk about it, learning to make it solidify satisfactorily at this altitude and to get the meringue fluffy and toasted was a herculean feat.
I can’t remember the last time Mom made one. Dad’s been gone eight years. I’ll ask her about it and try to get the recipe. I will post the results here.
In other news, I’ve been enjoying making monotypes under the instruction of Joe Higgins at the Art Students’ League of Denver. It feels like a natural for my process, but SO much quicker, more immediate than an oil painting. The latest are too big to scan on my flatbed-I’ll take photos soon. Here are some smaller, earlier experiments:
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Tagged lemon meringue pie, monotypes, sugar mountain
Paint Fumes 