Jamie W.

I think I'm finished with this one.

Well I thought so before then kept messing with it.

Oil On Linen, approx 19 x 15

Jamie W.

This is one I'm still working on, but I sort of like how it's going. A little smoother and tighter than I intended but that's how these things go. Sometimes the painting tells you how it wants to be painted.

Oil on Linen, 20 x 16

Parsnips I presume?

I believe these are parsnips and a turnip. So I'm told. I choose things to paint without regard for name, flavor or utility. I just like the way they look.

Trio, Oil on Linen 15 x 16

"You are so talented I would love to see you do something less boring and uninteresting. Try figures. And look up some design books."

Ouch. This was a recent comment on an Art Website about my work.

Provincetown

I'm packing up some paintings to send to the Egeli Gallery in Provincetown, (Cape Cod) Mass. The gallery is active mostly for the summer months, and should be open till late September. Stop by if you're in the area and ask for Arthur. And rave about my work loudly so people will hear.

Jamie

Thought I'd post something that isn't a still life. I'm doing some drawings and paintings of a friend of mine, Jamie. Working on a painting of her but had to stop all painting for a little while while I had my studio rewired. I nearly had a fire from a burning  and smoking wall outlet.

Back to normal now.

Pencil on paper, 14 x 11

September

Turban Squashed

This painting and another small still life have been juried into The California Art Club Gold Medal Exhibition for 2009, opening April 26th. 

www.californiaartclub.com

Oil on Linen, 20 x 16

Apple Peeling

Apple Peeling, Oil on panel, 12 x 9

Here's an odd little one I recently finished. I say odd, because I don't always know why I paint certain things, and I actually sometimes like that they seem odd to me. Not weird, just slightly different than I intended. 

Muddy Waters

I felt like putting this up, I haven't seen it in a little while. This was a piece I did a couple years ago, that was in a traveling exhibit and book (well the book didn't travel, I don't think), "The Greatest Album Covers That Never Were", which ended at The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's a mixed media construction, of steel, wood (from an old picket fence) and the center image is Oil on a Wood Panel. 

When I bought the old picket fence (it was only about 6 feet long) at a swap meet, (and I don't know why he thought someone would buy it) he asked me, "What are you using it for?" When I said it was for an album cover I was making, he said, "Oh... for Wilson Pickett?"

Wish I'd thought of that.

Three Bells

This Painting, Three Bells, was recently in an exhibition at the Pasadena Museum of History,

Contemporary Masters, Artistic Eden II, that ran through April 11th.

Oil on Canvas, 14 x 18