This was a section from Canyons. I loved the wet-on-wet oil work on Canyons and I wanted to continue it. This came from reaching back to the watercolor work I did in my teens – cartoony mis=use of watercolor and ink to craft basically brightly colored posters. Stuff to hang on the walls […]
Guitar and Mandolin, 2004
This was a sketch by Picasso, deconstructing a mandolin, as a taking off point and then more deconstruction. — spence
Two Guitars, 2005
A feel for forms and shapes and distortions
Sale Pending, 2005
…it had a deserted sadness to it
Woman 1934, 2004
…oil on canvas
Canyons, 2004
This was reaching back to a watercolor style I painted with in my teen. This is wet-on-wet oil and playing with the colors and blending the lines and colors into forms was a blast. I held in mind a desert paintingI could remember but no longer have. The original was a giant butterfly […]
Weathervane, 2008
light hitting the brass goose weathervane on a neighbor’s garage, in contrast with the fall leaves
New York Road, 2008
I was riding in the passenger seat driving back from New York, and I saw this tower from the road, it just looked so much like something Hopper would have painted… — spence
