More still life. I love this form. Many of my favorite paintings remain still life. The oldest good oil painting I have (I have a couple not so polished…) is a still life. It’s a teaching form, but works for me. — spence
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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…
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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
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This was a sketch by Picasso, deconstructing a mandolin, as a taking off point and then more deconstruction. — spence
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A feel for forms and shapes and distortions
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This was from a photograph of the abandoned roof of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles
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…it had a deserted sadness to it
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…oil on canvas
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Continue ReadingThis 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…
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