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 […]
Two Figures, 2005 (unfinished)
This was never signed or finished, but I learned a lot about abstracted figures. The inspiration was a clay sculpture at the Met, of a crouched human figure. — spence
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
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 […]
Bowl & Kerchief, 1981
I had finished intermediate painting classes, and set up a small room in the house I rented as a studio, with a painting bench, a small table and light for still life setups and minimal oil paints. This stayed with me, this single painting, from those initial on-my-own workings. I was taught paintings […]
