This is a shot from down in the designated basement. It does look like ruins. If I had a lot of energy I would go up on the weekends and dig this out by hand.
Ruins
3/17/09
This is a shot from down in the designated basement. It does look like ruins. If I had a lot of energy I would go up on the weekends and dig this out by hand.
This is a shot from down in the designated basement. It does look like ruins. If I had a lot of energy I would go up on the weekends and dig this out by hand.
Along the Chatahoochie
3/15/09
A few weekends ago I took about 100 photos a few miles up from Robertstown along the river. I take reference shots to help me with my paintings, but occasionally I frame one up. This section of the river is beautifully dense with hemlocks, rhododendrons and mountain laurel. It is the spot that I did the original painting at about four or five years ago. It was early AM and the shadows were just like I wanted — except they were coming from the East!
A few weekends ago I took about 100 photos a few miles up from Robertstown along the river. I take reference shots to help me with my paintings, but occasionally I frame one up. This section of the river is beautifully dense with hemlocks, rhododendrons and mountain laurel. It is the spot that I did the original painting at about four or five years ago. It was early AM and the shadows were just like I wanted — except they were coming from the East!
Jekyll and Hyde
3/5/09
I’ve been working on a few new paintings. Both are didactically different except for the use of acrylic on both. It’s been years since I’ve used it, but I decided to work on these two canvases with the cheaper acrylics and then finish off with oil. So far I have not done that, and really don’t think I need to. All my acrylic alchemy came right back along with some new ideas for concoctions I’ve mixed for glazing.
The first painting—Hold Your Fire is a fantasy developed from a series of sci-fi comic strips that I have been playing around with for years. I thought that enlarging them would be an interesting idea. So I bought a large canvas and traced one up using my new projector. I was psyched-out and worked feverishly about a month or so but struggled to finish it. At the same time I stretched a large canvas—90 inches tall by a very thin 36. This is my more usual tree in the forest...but It’s very big. I developed the idea from a small painting I did of hemlock trees along the Chatahoochie—again I enlarged it with the new projector. It’s almost like scenery for a play. In any event I’m still working it. I’m not sure they were painted by the same guy.
I’ve been working on a few new paintings. Both are didactically different except for the use of acrylic on both. It’s been years since I’ve used it, but I decided to work on these two canvases with the cheaper acrylics and then finish off with oil. So far I have not done that, and really don’t think I need to. All my acrylic alchemy came right back along with some new ideas for concoctions I’ve mixed for glazing.
The first painting—Hold Your Fire is a fantasy developed from a series of sci-fi comic strips that I have been playing around with for years. I thought that enlarging them would be an interesting idea. So I bought a large canvas and traced one up using my new projector. I was psyched-out and worked feverishly about a month or so but struggled to finish it. At the same time I stretched a large canvas—90 inches tall by a very thin 36. This is my more usual tree in the forest...but It’s very big. I developed the idea from a small painting I did of hemlock trees along the Chatahoochie—again I enlarged it with the new projector. It’s almost like scenery for a play. In any event I’m still working it. I’m not sure they were painted by the same guy.
