Sketchbook Tuesday

Name the plant.


"One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things."

Henry Miller

Mexico

I've decided to move back to Mexico. This will allow me to continue to paint full-time and help me to focus more attention on just painting and drawing. I don't know if I will be posting to Alla Prima on a regular basis while in Mexico, but I will leave the blog up and running for those of you who like to wade through its images or peruse its link lists. Hasta Luego!

Raymond Logan over at Daily Painter Review was kind enough to post about my work. Check it out when you get a chance.

"If you ask people to remember a painting and a photograph, their description of the photograph is far more accurate than that of the painting. Strangely enough, there is a physical element intertwined with the painting. It shakes loose an emotional element within the viewer."

Luc Tuymans

Sketchbook Tuesday

"Drawing is a kind of hypnotism: one looks in such a way at the model, that he comes and takes a seat on the paper."

Pablo Picasso

Sketchbook Tuesday

Just a page of typical, everyday still life objects.


"You are lost the instant you know what the result will be."

Juan Gris

Not Alla Prima

9" x 12" Oil on panel. This is a larger still life that I've been working on over several sittings. I thought I would give you a peek at the work in progress.


"Images and colours are, for a painter, his way of being, of living, of thinking, of feeling.  For this poor devil, art is his only reason for being."

Georges Rouault

Sketchbook Tuesday

"A painter who loves his art must be careful not to see too much of critics and men of letters. These gentlemen, however unconsciously, distort everything, thinking that they are explaining it—the artist's thought, sensibility, and intentions. They take away his strength, just as Delilah took away Samson's. They have no gift for nuances, and they have an instinctive aversion for everything that is beyond their reach and baffles them."

Georges Rouault

Tobacco Tins

5" x 7" Oil on panel.

"The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it."

Paul Klee

Sketchbook Tuesday

"Rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes, while too much effort and diligence sometimes sops the vitality and powers of those who never know when to leave off."

Giorgio Vasari

White Cube

5" x 7" Oil on panel.

"The artist needs but a roof, a crust of bread, and his easel, and all the rest God gives him in abundance. He must live to paint and not paint to live."

Albert Pinkham Ryder

Sketchbook Tuesday

"Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality."

Edgar Degas

Cube

5" x 7" Oil on panel.

"Creative people... are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in terms of insecurity, sensitivity, and defenselessness for the gift of 'divine madness.'"

Rollo May

Sketchbook Tuesday

"A colourist makes his presence known even in a simple charcoal drawing."

Henri Matisse

Alas

5" x 7" Oil on panel.

"I am never in a hurry to get into details; I am first and foremost interested in the large shapes and general movement of things."

Camille Corot

Sketchbook Tuesday

"Every change is a form of liberation. My mother used to say a change is always good even if it's for the worse."

Paula Rego

Edgeworth

5" x 7" Oil on panel.

"With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication."

Lee Krasner