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• Focus on Color and Line in New Abstract Drawing

  

  As I mentioned in previous blogs, I've been working with a new Pentel Aquash Brush, but not very happily. I think, for the kind of drawing I do, I need somethin... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Looking Toward Spring in New Abstract Painting

  

  Today I focused on finishing one of the two new abstract paintings I'd been working on. First, I drew butterfly-like shapes in alizarin crimson, and then... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Drawing on Paper with a Pentel Aquash Brush

  

  I continued working with my new Pentel Arts Aquash Brush to make another drawing on paper. Once again, as I squeezed the pen, a large amount of the ink came out... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Drawing on Paper with a New Tool

  

  Hope you all had a Happy Easter and/or Passover if you celebrate them! I recently purchased a Pentel Arts Aquash Brush, which is a pigment ink-filled brush, to... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Adding Line and Layers to New Abstract Paintings

  

  I continued working on the two new abstract paintings I started recently, putting them both on my easel at the same time to create twin canvases--not quite a... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• More Work on Background of New Paintings

  

  I continued to work on the background of two new paintings, beginning by applying flat blocks of color with a palette knife: cadmium red light, light blue,... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Painting the Backgound in Two New Abstract Paintings

  

  I began two new abstract paintings on canvas with backgrounds full of color. Using tubes of heavy body Liquitex acrlylic, I placed small spots of these colors... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Abstract Art & Poetry Go Together Like . . .

  

  Writer, editor, and director of Zee's writing studio, Zee Zahava has been writing poetry inspired by my paintings. Here are a few of her gems: noon sun burns... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• New Painting on Paper

  

  Over the past couple of years I'd painted some large paintings on paper with the paper size 48" x 36" and the image 46" x 34". But I ran out of the paper, and... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Second Abstract Painting Goes in a Different Direction

  

  I painted a similar background on two new abstract paintings, but then went in different directions. In this one I used a thin black acrylic paint and a 1/2"... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Featured Abstract Artist Doug Baird

  

  Doug Baird is an Ithaca artist with a great sensibility for the drawn line as well as digital collage. He often starts with a photograph he's taken of... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Is This Painting with the Drippy Background Finished?

  

  First, I am excited to report that a short essay of mine was just published in The Painted Parrot, an online literary journal. It publishes the work of writers... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• New Abstract Painting Stays Weird

  

  Now that my new painting was filled with odd shapes and drips, I decided to emphasize that oddness by drawing outlines around the shapes. I also drew more shape... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Strange Background on New Abstract Paintings

  

  Is it boredom or perversity that brings us to try some weird technique or color combination? I began two new abstract paintings, covering the background in a... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Final Stage in Horizontal Abstract Painting

  

  Yesterday I took a walk at Sapsucker Woods, a bird sanctuary at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. We are having summer-like weather out of season here, and it's... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Second Stage in New Abstract Painting

  

  This new abstract painting is looking more and more like a field or a meadow. I patted on some thinned-down black, beige, and brown paint with a brush. Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Painting the Background on a New Canvas

  

  I often paint more than one canvas in the same style and colors, though there are always variations in the outcome. As I completed my last painting, I worked... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Finishing New Abstract Painting

  

  This new abstract painting presents a problem with its rather dark background of dull turquoise. In today's painting session I attempted to "lighten it up" by... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Happy Or Sad, Still Making Art

  

  Today is the birthday of a good friend I've known since third grade. She is in hospice, dying of cancer. I can't be there with her, but I am in my studio... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Beginning A New Abstract Painting on Canvas

  

  It's nice to get back to color after painting a series in black and white. In this new abstract painting, I started by covering the whole canvas with a dull... Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE