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…
Continue ReadingAbandoned #1, 2008
…abandoned Moscow metro station
Continue ReadingShadows, 2008
…looking for light
Continue ReadingTree in Autumn, 2007
This was from a photograph taken at the same time as Weathervane. More texture, more paint… — spence
Continue ReadingFall Colors (red)
just a bright red color change from an autumnal bush
Continue ReadingStreet, Santa Barbara, 2011
…one of those moments where even just a doorway becomes a palette of light Continue Reading
Fall Berries, 2018
…the leaves fall and they are revealed
Continue ReadingShop Door, 2008
…cracked paint on a shop door in Louisville, Kentucky.
Continue ReadingBowl & 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…
Continue ReadingMeile 6.5 MM f2 190 Degree Circular Fisheye
…outstandingly sharp circular fisheye
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