some recent paintings
here's a quick upload of snapshots of some of my oil sketches (a topic discussed in a couple of earlier blog entries).
In future, I expect to improve the quality of documenting & showing paintings.
But for the moment,
for those curious to see some more of what I've been doing with oilpaints,
this swift cellphone-camera sampling gives an idea of it.
In the latest painting group session, rather than painting, I spent the whole time affixing wires to canvases (and then finally hanging the paintings) -- a process that's nice to do, but rather time-consuming (the affixing-wires part, I mean). From the 21 canvases I'd (way-overly-ambitiously) selected earlier with an idea of displaying them all, I only managed to get wires on some 6-8 or so (these photos show most of them; there are a couple other wired-ones unsnapped at moment).
A bird in the hand -- or a digital image uploaded as opposed to merely hypothesized about -- is worth something, in the bramble-whir of these days. Apolgies for the poor (auto) focus above. Bear with me, friends. More in future.
posted by david raphael israel at 11:30 AM
6 Comments:
21!! was ambitious, yes. But why not.
Something about your compositions... more on this while I stare, midst benin papers on human rights.... sense of colour and fluidity of layered lines...
I think I will quote rumi to you in a bit. For now, get a better cam. I mean it. Hmpf.
*grins*
will be curious what Rumi may be quoted apropos this/these --
I do have better camera, must admit. Probably on weekend (which is when there's the open studio), I'll attempt some "more serious snapshots).
Since I do one painting each week (except if I miss the session), 21 paintings means work from 21 weeks (or longer); I hauled a similar number (maybe it was 18) of paintings home (as being already old hat, or not up to snuff); so the 21 was merely things I thought to show. But overkill in terms of the space too; it's anyway a group show. But there's this unusued hallway (the start of which is where the paintings here seen, are seen); -- so my notion was to fill the hallway wall. But gotta pick up & install this track lighting thing . . . I don't know, life requires work, doesn't it?
thanks anyway for the articulately sketchy nascence of comment.
I do like (even discounting the focus [and to a degree, exposure] imperfections) -- how well the colors [and painterliness] come across via digital-photo & web-showing. It bodes well for developing this as a likeable way per se of "broadcasting" painting: not as means-to-end (of sales and retiring famous or something) but as end in itself (communication of an experience in the imagination of paint-on-surface).
d.i.
Perhaps the blurring effect of a bad camera can add to the quality of the paintings--help to create new meanings and associations?
The fourth one from the top...the reclining woman in profile...I love the colurs of that one. Very soothing, lazy browns.
Grazie River--
neat adjective: lazy browns.
[If I didn't take space to complain & make excuses for my poor-quality-photos, I wonder what narrative would be there instead?]
There's something to be said for lo-tech hi-tech, true. (But in future I'll try for other ends of the scale as well.) I've not really looked into issues of file-size vis-a-vis Blogger, but imagine if there's some problem, it should become evident.
Burnt sienna is perhaps predominant in the lazy brown (though brown too results from various mixtures); I tend to use fairly few colors, and just mix 'em a lot. I also sometimes favor Naples Yellow (despite its lead basis; inshallah, I'll elude the Van Gogh syndrome). Then, a white, some blue, some red (and/or perhaps some orangish red, tho can achieve that w/ the Naples) -- from those I can get whatever colors I want, generally.
The presence of a (sometimes a bit thick) undercoat layer may be evident in some. Also note the one where I pained on the "back" of the stretched canvas (and also on the wooden frame on that backside); the other side of the canvas also has a painting! (not seen here)
d.i.
I love burnt sienna.
me too --
I like the paint,
and also the name!
hmm, if I were to launch a new blog just for paintings, could call it "burnt sienna" --(tho then it might impel me to use more of that color);
as words (perhaps in poetry), the specifics of paint-names do seem appealing.
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