This is a short post today — as opposed to other days — about the latest flower study of my hummingbird garden. It seems the “featured image” by WordPress design likes only one geometry. Most annoying! “Continue reading” if you will to see this portrait mode piece. I shall debug that. But not today. I … Continue reading “Red Light Shadows”
Impressionism is a way of seeing what is there to be seen, not what you think is there. Lines around things, for example, are imaginary. They do not really exist except in art. I have heard that kind of linear representation called, “the felt object.” As the word is ordinarily used — meaning “realistic” — … Continue reading “Once An Impressionist, Always An Impressionist”
It was around 2002 that I decided to work exclusively in black and white. I did that until about February of this year. Twenty years of shades of gray alone. My time in the wilderness with only carbon for pigment. My preferred medium was ink and brush. I will get around to posting some of … Continue reading “Gray’s End”
Here is my latest piece of a juvenile sunflower made especially for the header. I have a whole series of photos I took of every stage of this flower’s growth cycle. She happened to grow accidentally from a seed dropped by last year’s crop. I did many paintings of those, and I will eventually post … Continue reading “Young Sunflower”