09-03-2023

09-03-2023
22 X 16IN
Acrylic on Nylon Rope on Painted wood Chassis.

11-03-2023

11-03-2023
22 X 16 IN
Acrylic on Nylon Rope on Painted wood Chassis.

This particular painting was a wonderful enjoyment to create. The uses of the interior yellow and red make the foreground stick out even more to the eye. The details are exquisite. 

This is the mixing palette I used for this painting. I needed to find the right blue to go with the Pthalo that is used for the chassis. Along with the right mixture of mediums to make the textural paint the correct thickness. In mixing textural paint, I move very slowly as you have to allow time for the paint to dry since wet paint has its own dynamics. The area of the top, which kinda looks like an abstract head, is the most recent mixing. I test my paint not on my walls, I test my paint on the paint buckets I use, makes the paint easy to use and get rid of when no longer needed. So what you are seeing here is the paint taken off the bucket and placed on a white background so you pay more attention to it than the bucket.

Have a blessed week!

09-29-2023 72X52IN

09-29-2023
72 X 52 IN
Acrylic on Acrylic and Nylon Rope on Painted wood Chassis.

I have a special desire for making white paintings. After many years making white paintings, I find white to be the most powerful color as it allows one to see every detail better than any other color. I'm not making a declaration on anyone else's work, I am simply writing about my own. 

09-02-2023

09-02-2023

36 X 26 IN
Acrylic on Nylon Rope on Painted wood Chassis.

Pigment by: KP Pigments Bora Bora Blue

A few months before this painting was created, I had been watching the DipYourCar Channel on YouTube that shows some amazing pigments that you don't see in painting. I got in touch with KP Pigments which supplies much of their car pigments, and they hooked me up with some sweet pigments that shall be on future paintings but this is the first one. I also used the ground glass on the backing paint I got from Paint Huffer, they make a ground glass that I got myself before and really enjoy seeing the light catch the tiny granules in the painting as you view it from all directions. 

These images are pretty large so you can click on them and really take in the details.

 

12-07-2023 Video

I spent last night going over this video time and time again. I kept thinking of making it shorter, but everytime I looked into it, I simply couldn't, as I kept loving looking at this marvelous painting. Hopefully you too.

Have a blessed day!

12-07-2023
72 X 52IN

Acrylic on Nylon Rope on Painted wood chassis.

 

12-07-2023 72X52IN

2023 has been one heck of a year for me. So much personal growth and growing through my paintings. The culmination of it all came about at the end of the year with this tremendous painting that really is photogenic. The painting is on a 1.5" thick wood and the nylon rope make the entire painting stick out about 3 Inches from the wall. As you can see in the photos, the nylon is very thick and as it lays upon another string it gets quite interesting to say the least. I've never been involved with a painting that was this thick, so to see it as it grew was spectacular and I enjoyed every moment. To watch the painting as it developed with each stroke is a whole new experience for me. It's one heck of a powerful painting.

12-07-2023
72 X 52 IN
Acrylic on Nylon Rope on Painted wood Chassis.

Video is on the way

Yet another painting done through a Grant from the Greater Columbus Arts Council. Thanks!!!!





Top View from below.

Interior of right side.

Anders Knutsson - Field Of Faith - Short film on the lighting of a luminous painting.

A number of years back as I visited NYC, I visited Painter Anders Knutsson in his Bed-Stuy studio. He talked with me about the Luminous Paintings he had been making since the 80's, and asked if there was a way to share their glow in a video form. at the time there were no cameras that could see in light that low and still have quality video. Eventually a number of them are available but alas, they are out of my grasp at the time. So I suggested that long exposure pictures laid one after the other in the "timeline" of the video editing program might be of interest. He agreed and we sat about taking many photos of the one that he wished to work on that day. This is the result of that blessed day.

So as Anders wished, we kept working on more video essays on various paintings that are difficult to see in reproduction so the idea of a group of still images faded together fills a need to grasp the emitted beauty of these paintings through the computer, and I think we've done a pretty cool thing here. The memories are all quite wonderful, watching Ander stand by the window, ready to recharge the paintings as needed. Like a Soldier of Painting he made sure it all ran smooth. The biggest problem I had was during editing, so many times I had problems with an edit and would have to defer to Anders how to fix it. Usually it involved moving around an image or six, but after much trepidation that has turned into beauty, here is that second video on Field Of Faith.

 

If you enjoy the music, it's actually one of my mid-90's guitar improvisations that I was vehemently recording every chance I got. Every chance I picked up the guitar at that period of time, I was immediately putting a tape in the recorder and pressing the button. This is what happened one of those times. I actually had a guitar cable that wasn't soldered together correctly, so one day it fell apart. Thankfully I had the idea that it might make for a cool sound, since at the time I was very much interested in music such as Pan-Sonic, and Jim O'Rourke. So grabbing the guitar and plugging everything in, set up a patch that was filled with echo and went to work. This song is basically all volume swells but with a bad cable and lots of effects. It's such a haunting soundscape that it made me feel as if I were deep in the Icelandic north. Hence the name... ICELAND.

You can find the song here...

I also just made a "SHORT" of the Field of Faith painting and will be sharing that in time. Just want people to see these first.