You can see my work at the "Denver Plein Air" Exhibition this month at the Denver Public Library. The opening reception is November 10th. You can see the painting I'm exhibiting in the November issue of American Art Collector magazine. It's toward the back....just shuffle around the pages until you find it.
I'm also participating in the Annual Holiday Miniatures Show at Abend Gallery. The opening is December 4th. All paintings are 8x10 or smaller. I'm anticipating including about 5 new paintings. Hopefully I'll post them soon...
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Monday, October 5, 2009
Madden Museum "Windows to the Divine" exhibition
My painting "3 PM" is currently showing at the Madden Museum in Greenwood Village, CO. It's part of the "Windows to the Divine" exhibiton.
For more information, go to http://www.themaddenmuseum.org/.
There's some great paintings in the show by Lu Cong, Dan Sprick, Quang Ho, etc. Definitely worth checking out. And I think it's free admission. So you can't beat that, right?!
Monday, July 20, 2009
A Moveable Feast
In case you've never read Hemingway's "A Moveable Feast", you should check it out. It has lots of references to his writing approach which easily translates into the painting process (but they are stated through Ernest's cool journalistic style while living in Pais in the 1920's.)
For example, in the book he says to himself, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know." So finally I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there. It was easy then because there was always one true sentence that I knew or had seen or had heard someone say. If I started to write elaborately, or like someone introducing or presenting something, I found that I could cut that scrollwork or ornament out and throw it away and start with the first true simple declarative sentence I had written. Up in that room I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about. I was trying to do this all the time I was writing, and it was a good and severe discipline."
And there are a bunch of references to painters (such as Cezanne and Picasso) and their specific influences on his writing at the time. Cool stuff if you're into that sort of thing.
For example, in the book he says to himself, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know." So finally I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there. It was easy then because there was always one true sentence that I knew or had seen or had heard someone say. If I started to write elaborately, or like someone introducing or presenting something, I found that I could cut that scrollwork or ornament out and throw it away and start with the first true simple declarative sentence I had written. Up in that room I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about. I was trying to do this all the time I was writing, and it was a good and severe discipline."
And there are a bunch of references to painters (such as Cezanne and Picasso) and their specific influences on his writing at the time. Cool stuff if you're into that sort of thing.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
2009 OPA National Show
My painting "Loosening Knots" recently won the Award of Excellence from Raymar Art at the 2009 Oil Painters of America National Show in Santa Fe.
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