Finally Here!

"...a man's work is nothing but the slow trek to discover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened." -Camus

The show is finally up at Redbrick, 95 Rantoul St., Beverly MA, bottom floor.
It's only open M-F during business hours, which is too bad - except on Saturday the 6th (upcoming) when it will be open for December Open Studios from 10 a.m.--5 p.m. I will be hanging around so you can come say hi if you want, and see everything hung up, which looks very good if I do say so myself.

The work will also be on display at Gordon College sometime in the spring - probably from late January until mid-April. That will be a slightly more complete show, including smaller work, some older works from private collections, and more Silver Worlds pieces.


Snared Rabbit


top: Resurrection Rabbit
bottom: Conquered Rabbit


Another angle showing the gilded inner rims of the frames.


from left: Carrion Crows, Lotus Pond, Predator/Prey


detail of Lotus Pond


Persian Megature


Persian Megature


left: Snared Rabbit, right: I am from battles!

Counting Down The Days

Lotus Pond







This is going really well. I've switched from acrylic to gouache mixed with acrylic medium (to make it waterproof), which is working out really well - I am much more comfortable with the way it handles; I just can't get the same results with pure acrylic. Also, the pigmentation of the gouache is SO much richer...*enraptured sigh*

I am from battles!


A greenflaming tendril.


head with a blade and more tendrils


eyes painted in a bit


detail of horns by ears


colophon on back


resurrection rabbit framed!!!

Coalescing

Images from the studio this weekend.

Resurrection Rabbit


Resurrection Rabbit, detail


Conquered Rabbit, detail


Conquered Rabbit, detail


Conquered Rabbit, detail


Snared In Its Glory (At the height of its powers. Thorn in the flesh.)


Snared, detail


left: Black Sheep (Apex), right: Black Sheep (Nadir) 6"x8" each


Persian Megature


Lotus Pond


On The Shoulders of Giants

Phases

Lotus Pond. Two images - make an average in your mind and you will see its true color.


Ensnared. Experimenting with gouache and granulation fluid.


Break At Dawn. More granulated gouache.


Sunless Sea. And again.


Megature. All the shapes finally blocked. I'm worried that I may have miscalculated the figure-ground weight on the right vs. left sides :/

Bookmaking

Yesterday I did a little bookmaking. Here's my setup (to use the term loosely. I still have a lot of materials left over from when I was in Orvieto, Italy in 2005, that I get out when I start a project like this.

Here are all my collage matirials, most of them collected in Orvieto, Florence and Rome. They're organized by color in little envelopes. Going through them again after 2 or 3 years really made me want to do some collage again. You can see some printed and hand-marbled Florentine paper underneath the envelopes.

The book is is its own slipcase, all labelled correspondingly with text from some Korean green tea bags.





I needed more pages to complete the signature than there was content for, so I made the middle of the signature a four-fold spread and used my page-planning notes for a touch of ephemera.



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Working on Lotus Pond for Silver Worlds. yes, I am still having a show! :D

Back On Track

Ok, I've actually been "back," as in "regularly at my studio," for a little while now (July was a very slow month - necessary downtime) but haven't been putting up pictures. Thank for the nudge, Jake, this one goes out to you. And Tim, if you're seeing this, go paint something! :D

The whole shebang, set up for a studio visit/critique.


From a few days ago. The places with little black X's are prepared for my assistant the talented Susie to paint in. :D


The core of the megature. A colloquium of rabbits.


This is an example of the light refracting (science term check?) differently through the colored clouds at different angles. From the front they are not very bright and can even look like unpainted silver, whereas from this angle they are very red (or blue, n other areas).


panther!


a dear sheep


a fat sheep


Brood Nurse


Snared In Its Glory