Wowwee #6, February 28, 2012
Digital sketch, 9" x 18", 300dpi
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Palette Flowers
Little Pinks, Palette Flowers
9" x 12", Oil on canvas
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Palette Flowers notes: http://j-mccauley.blogspot.com/2011/12/abstract-with-orange-blob.html
In Progress_part 2 The Paths
I first showed these here: http://j-mccauley.blogspot.com/2011/12/in-progress.html
I have had 2-good sessions with these works. First over the year-end holidays and then last weekend, 'Family Day'. I have yet to start adding the shadows and real painterly brush strokes. They still have the 'draft' quality but I am pleased with the progress. Someone please take the lime green away from me (smile). Apologies for the glare in the upper left - a dangling light bulb nearby - and these were taken with my smart phone.
Path 1,
36" x 48", Oil on canvas
This one is coming along nicely. Unsure of the pink centre canvas but it does appear throughout the paintings. The second path - there are always two - needs more definition, and the top/sky has had little work.
Path 2,
36" x 48", Oil on canvas
This one makes me think of Dr. Seuss! And whoa, that stream is too obviously the second path. The primary path needs junk in it - painterly strokes, leaves, stones, stuff - and the whole scene is crying for shadows, so flat.
Path 3,
36" x 48", Oil on canvas
OK, this one is going to cause me a lot of trouble. Loving the sky, hating the forground. Need to let go and let it be. It is tentatively titled 'Sisters'. There are two sets of sisters one obvious, one not so. Strangley this is the only one that is based on a true path/place. Perhaps that's why it is giving me so much angst. Love those Austrian Pines in Highland Park.
Palette Flowers
Palette Flowers
12" x 14" Oil on canvas
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[ Redux: I use small canvases as palettes. Once the palette is full I set it aside until the paint is dry. Then I gesso the canvas again and use it for quick gestural [abstracts] such as this. I love the uneven, unexpected, lumps and bumps I encounter. http://j-mccauley.blogspot.com/2011/12/abstract-with-orange-blob.html ]
Brumes 13, 14, 15, 16
Brume 13_12_02
19" x 13" Calligraphic ink on papper
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Brume 14_12_02
19" x 13" Calligraphic ink on papper
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Brume 15_12_02
19" x 13" Calligraphic ink on papper
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Brume 16_12_02
19" x 13" Calligraphic ink on papper
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Brumes 9, 10, 11 12
Brume_09_12_02
19" x 13"Calligraphic ink on paper
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Brume_10_12_02
19" x 13"Calligraphic ink on paper
Brume_11_12_02
19" x 13"Calligraphic ink on paper
Brume_12_12_02
19" x 13"Calligraphic ink on paper
Brumes 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Brume_04_12_02
19" x 13" Calligraphy ink on paper
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Brume_05_12_02
19" x 13" Calligraphy ink on paper
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Brume_06_12_02
19" x 13" Calligraphy ink on paper
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Brume_07_12_02
19" x 13" Calligraphy ink on paper
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Brume_08_12_02
19" x 13" Calligraphy ink on paper
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Brumes
Brume. This is a word I use in my own way. Though its true definition is a mist, fog, or vapour, I use it as a winter mass of vegetation. A field lay fallow. The brown skeletal remains of a once dense thicket still holds form, but the life is gone, a memory. These are calligraphy ink on gloss paper. The gloss belies the death. They are a great joy to daub and blob, and impossible to err. Enjoy.
Brume_01_12_02
13" x 19" Calligraphy ink on paper
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Brume_02_12_02
13" x 19" Calligraphy ink on paper
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Brume_03_12_02
13" x 19" Calligraphy ink on paper
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