5 new paintings

The show at Attic Gallery is already up and the reception went well I suppose. With a little help from John Power.
Anyway I finally got the last 5 slides of the newest paintings scanned so here they are:
Click on the images to view them larger!

"Three Acts" 36" x 52"  2011

"City Map"  41" x 49"  2011

This one I'm not so sure about the title. If something better occurs to me I'll change it. For some odd reason the piece makes me think about Thomas Kinkade ("painter of light").

"Focal point"  50" x 33"  2011

"Sister"  50" x 32"  2011

"Transect"  50" x 33"  2011

A Winner!

I had a painting in a show called "Expressions West" down at the Coos Art Museum in Coos Bay, Oregon. Yes, there's an art museum in Coos Bay. It's actually pretty nice. Anyway I just found out last night that I won first place. And that comes with a check. Sweeeet.
You can see the winners here.

"Linden Tree"  oil on canvas  34" x 52"

Finishing up "3 acts"

I don't know that it's 100% percent finished but it's close enough. Once it's stretched I'll get it and several other pieces properly photographed, without all this damned glare.
(the problem with documenting a work in progress is you have no idea ahead of time how well it;s going to turn out. I feel like I something got lost somewhere with this one. But there's still time to make some small changes and often that's all it takes.)

This image shows approximately the final cropping after stretching.

3 acts - Blocking it in

So here's a glimpse of what I did last night.  This is the easy part (or the cartoonified underpainting part if you prefer). Now I can either make it a really nice painting or ruin it. If you don't see any more about this one then I guess you'll know what happened.
(it takes a while to get the actual painting going, and I'm not sure how much time I'll have over the next few days, so don't hold your breath)

3 Acts

With only a month before my big show in April I'm starting a new painting. I had done 2 theater pieces earlier (see below) that I was quite happy with but I really felt the need for one more. Here's the initial sketch roughed out on the canvas last night. I'm tentatively calling it "3 acts". It may be hard to see but there will be three small chairs on the stage (click on the image to view it larger). Of course everything could change. I just hope I can get it, and the 3 or 4 other paintings I have in progress, done in time. There's nothing like deadlines.

"Performance"  oil on canvas  43"w x 33"h

"Rehearsal"  oil on canvas  36"w x 45"h

40 Works

I'll have 4 pieces in a show in Eugene OR, at Lane Community College called "40 works"
The exhibition runs from February 22nd to March 10th. 
And check out the fine print! No charge for admission!

Here's the deets from the press release:

40 WORKS, REGIONAL JURIED ART EXHIBITION OPENS FEBRUARY 22nd

EUGENE, OR - The Lane Community College Art Gallery is proud to present 40 Works. This exhibition consists of artists from Oregon and the greater Pacific Northwest. This exhibition is a collection of work from 10 artists. Each artist is being featured with a small series of 4 works. The works in this exhibition will contain a wide variety of mediums, including painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture and mixed media.

This exhibition will include works by the following artists: Rob Morrison, Jan Madill, David Carmack Lewis, Danuta Muszynska, Anne Godfrey, Nathan Lucas, Katy Keuter, Dorene Steggell, KC Hancock, and Kevin Farrell.

The gallery is located in building 11 on main campus, 4000 E. 30th Avenue. There is no charge for admission. The Art and Applied Design Department phone number is 463-5409.

New Blurb

“I paint at night. It’s often the only time I can. I paint alone. I would hardly know how to do otherwise. These two elements then, not only pervade my work, they are my work. They are the things I paint. My paintings are rarely premeditated. I approach every blank canvas with a kind of depressing horror at my inadequacies as an artist. The only way around this is to simply start. I draw a tree, a house, a line that may or not be a horizon. Unformed ideas develop directly on the canvas, the concept sometimes evolving throughout the painting process. With short breaks to clear my mind I peer out of the studio door. The night is there, dim lights of the neighborhood prying open pieces of the darkness. I’m alone. I listen to music. I listen to lectures. My thoughts stray. This is how I work. This work is my mind when it is left alone to wander. In the dark, of course. This is what I find there.”

A New blurb to use in the promotional material for my upcoming solo show in April.  I think.