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Sketchbook Tuesday

2010-08-17T14:42:00.000-07:00

"I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand."

Alberto Giacometti

Dark House

2010-08-16T17:59:00.000-07:00

Dark House, oil on 4" x 6" linen panel, 2010
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"I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full; I have to surrender myself to what encircles me, I have to merge with my clouds and rocks in order to be what I am. Solitude is indispesible for my dialogue with nature."

Caspar David Friedrich

Boutique

2010-08-13T12:46:00.000-07:00

Boutique, oil on 4" x 6" linen panel, 2010
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"I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action."

Mark Tobey

Urban Haiku

2010-08-12T14:03:00.000-07:00

Alberta House, oil on 4" x 6" linen panel, 2010
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This is the first in a new series of pochades I'm calling urban haiku. The emphasis in these paintings will be on mood and design. They are small (about the size of your hand) and affordable. I hope you enjoy them.

"Remember that a picture, before being a battle horse, a nude, an anecdote or whatnot, is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order."

Maurice Denis

Sketchbook Tuesday

2010-08-10T09:05:00.000-07:00

There's a nice little post about Alla Prima on the blog, Notebook Stories. Thanks Nifty!

"I cannot imagine why my vision will have some value in the world..and yet I know it will..I think I will count because I am patient and recueilli (contemplative) in some degree."

Gwen John

Sketchbook Tuesday

2010-08-03T15:45:00.000-07:00

One house, two drawings. Ink, pencil, and white gouache on paper.

"When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it."

Alberto Giacometti

Sketchbook Tuesday

2010-07-27T16:57:00.000-07:00

Another two-pager from a small sketchbook.

"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made."

Groucho Marx

Sketchbook Tuesday

2010-07-20T07:02:00.000-07:00

Today's drawing is a wash with black and burnt sienna inks in a small, hardbound sketchbook.

"Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them."

John James Audubon

Finished/Unfinished

2010-07-15T18:11:00.000-07:00

"In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime."

Andre Gide

Still Life w/Cityscape

2010-07-07T16:29:00.000-07:00

Something I've been working on over several sittings -- not sure if it's done yet. I like the painting within a painting motif though.

"Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained."

Maurice de Vlaminck