White Painting

My second in my new group of paintings concerned with white. This really is a hard painting to photograph. Even though I took it in the sun, i'm tired of taking photos under interior light, the sun is oh so much better for photography. I just wish there was a way you could get to see the interior of this painting and how it looks almost metallic with the undercoats of color.

"11-20-2009 (White 2)"
18" X 10" 

Acrylic and Wood Filler on Canvas.

SOLD!!!

Here's a side image of it from outside where I do my photography now. Unfortunately it's not on the best of surfaces, so I had to put some white paper behind the painting to make it easier to photoshop. Enjoy and have a wonderful week.

Has anyone Seen Leger’s Palette lately?

"Painting has also probed the wall as origin of support and surface. A sequence intellectualized: construction, reconstruction, deconstruction. Carved cave wall first, then fresco wall erected and honed for illusion – into wall as perspective, in front of it as cubism, as environment for installation – all around but not in or on the painting as object. Three modes of painting made today: representational; abstract, actual. Where or why or how a painting is made. Question, pause, answer. A litany of trinities."

Frederic Matys Thursz: taken from…
“Has anyone Seen Leger’s Palette lately?”



Studio Photo. Taken by E. Tulchin

JEFFREY COLLINS: PAINTER

Got the website finally fully updated. It's more like a ten year retrospective now. Ten years. Shouldn't I be getting a call from a museum by now. ;-)

Click the link below and enjoy. And remember the large images are found through clicking the thumbnail images in the galleries.

JEFFREY COLLINS: PAINTER




















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More Drawing...

I recently got some R+F Handmade Paint Pigment Sticks and have been trying them. If you are interested in Oil Stick/Oil Bars/Pigment Sticks, you will love these babies. Buttery consistency and fantastic color and transparency. This first drawing is done with a Paynes Gray Pigment Stick. A bit more on the messy side of things working with the Pigment Sticks, but that's something I need to work on fixing myself with some gloves.




15" X 11" Oil Stick on Arches 140lb Watercolor Paper.



Detail in raking light to see the textural elements.

The second one was done with the W&N Oil Bars, Cadmium Red Deep



15" X 11" Oil Bar on Arches 140lb Watercolor paper.



This was done with Shiva Oil Stick, and I quite like the matte in it's color.



15" X 11" Oil Paintstick on Arches 140lb Watercolor paper



Thanks for viewing. In the next few days I'm going to be having a few interviews of artist friends of mine who live here in Columbus Ohio.

Quote of the day, Oct 29, 2009

Today's quote I just found from Agnes Martins writings book. This woman has such amazing insights into the world of painting.

BTW, If you ever get the chance, check out the documentary on Agnes. It's fantastic.



"When we go to Museums we do not just look, we make a definite response to the work. As we look at it we are happier or more sad, at peace or more depressed. A work may stimulate yearning, helplessness, belligerence, or remorse.

The cause of the response is not traceable in the work. An artist cannot and does not prepare for a certain response. He does not consider the response but simply follows his inspiration.

Works of art are not to be purposely conceived. The response depends upon the condition of the observer."



Enjoy.

Oil Sticks and flattened out wood pulp...

Lately on top of my working on my paintings. I have been focusing again on my oil stick on paper drawings. If you could call them drawings. As they are definitely not recognizable forms. Though the first oil stick drawings I have done were using your basic shapes, squares, rectangles, etc. This has become one particular thing I have liked what it was and wanted to develop it more.

Color is the primary focus of these works, and the ways I approach the materials is a physical mannerism, which helps make the drawing turn out the way it does.



The works here were done on 80LB unsealed paper, within the most recent of drawings, of which I have yet to take pics of. I have begun working on 180LB Primed cold pressed watercolor paper.

For archives sake.









All oil sticks were Windsor and Newton Oil Bars. Very wonderfully workable oil sticks with gorgeous color.

More to come...

David Novros...almost, all your questions answered.

I've been quite intrigued by David Novros these last few days. Not to say that I haven't been a fan of his paintings for years now. But last night I did some serious searching for interviews of him online and here's all the nuggets of interviews and info on the elusive painter that you might wanna know about. There is even a great video of him at the Getty Center in LA speaking about the conservation of two of his paintings that were at MOMA and the Menil Collection.

Here's a video on his new show at Paula Cooper Gallery in NYC from James Kalm.

http://www.facebook.com/posted.php?id=1551731224&share_id=154505921270&ref=nf#/video/video.php?v=122822958231&ref=share



Here's a great interview in three parts from White Hot Magazine with Thomas Butter.

http://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/with-david-novros-part-1/1927

Part 2

http://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/with-david-novros-part-2/1931

Part 3

http://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/with-david-novros-part-3/1934



Here is another great interview with Novros and Phong Bui.

http://www.brooklynrail.org/2008/06/art/chuck-close-with-phong-bui-june-08

This is not really an interview, but it's still a great read with Novros in it.

http://onthelam.wordpress.com/2007/01/10/sevilla-by-john-j-healey/

And a piece about Novros from artnet.

http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/features/brennan/brennan6-9-98.asp

Here's that video on conservation with a panel speaking about two of Novros' paintings that are now in MOMA and the Menil Collection.

http://www.getty.edu/conservation/publications/videos/object_in_transition_day2.html#2

You'll find this particular video I speak of in the Session Three section.

Here's a very interesting letter Novros wrote to Paula Cooper, you will understand more about him through this reading.

http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/searchimages/images/image_8072_21124.htm

I hope you enjoy these readings and videos. For there is a lot to learn about this tremendous painter.

Have a great week. Jeffrey