Back to work after breaking my glass art...needed a breather to regroup. I will be n this blog today and tomorrow with new work and I hope all is well for everyone.
alex
Saturday, August 11, 2007
Thursday, August 9, 2007
unheeded warning
Sometimes we fly off into less than promising skies. We take are fate in our hands and put our hope in our wings. Sometimes our gambles work and other times we crash back to earth. Take your chances when you're young and play it safe when you are old. Zen has really seeped into my work although I do not practice zen consciously. I guess painting is zen when you are lost in a painting.
6 x 10 watercolor on rag paper
ebay:
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the unknown
Mythology is always present in my work even when it is well hidden. I find making these works calming while other works cause me a lot of stress and aggravation.
8 x10 watercolor on arches rag paper
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Wednesday, August 8, 2007
the joy of glass
I spent over thirty hours on this piece of glass. Most of that time was in a 100 degree studio with a breathing helmet on. I drove it home tonight in my truck to make some design changes before I etch tomorrow and I went over the train tracks too hard and cracked it all the way down the middle. I am somewhere in between laughing and crying right now and feel like burying my face in a bottle of whiskey somewhere but I wont. I will design a new one tonight...The crack was such a horrible sound....what you see is a piece of glass covered in vinyl resist..the crack and the glass are on the other side of the rubber...lesson learned---do not to transport unless secured.
wednesday
Today I will be back in brooklyn etching...sorry for slacking on this blog, I have some glass art to make. and will get back on this asap. Starting queens yellow page cover as well, will show process on here--- if anyone cares.
alex
alex
Monday, August 6, 2007
around the axis
around the axis we all spinto determine what's left out and what's left in
what's left out and what's left in
who's left out and who's left in
who's left in
the moments come and go like water
I try to hold them but they're fading
---peter gabriel
22 x 30 watercolor on rag paper
ebay:
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lady at sunset
I am not sure who the creeping shadows are nor if they are approaching or leaving.
22 x 30 ink and brush
ebay:
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stormscape
Growing up in Texas I saw a lot of storms. Being in such a flat landscape enables you to see storms miles away on the horizon. I saw a lot of tornadoes and floods when I was there. More things that bubble oil- like up from the subconscious to the surface.
22 x 30 watercolor on rag paper
the sleeping sun
not to touch the earth not to see the sun.....
watercolor and gold leaf on watercolor paper
12 x 18
ebay:
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artist of the day
There is a face that has seen both sides of life. I read today that johnny cash was once arrested for picking flowers from a stranger's yard (when he was drunk) to give to his wife june carter after they had a big fight. They recently exonerated him post mortem. He once slipped my mom his phone number when she was a flight attendant for TWA---I have no idea what happened to the piece of paper. His brother died working in a saw mill when he was a kid and this haunted Johnny for the rest of his life. If you go to www.johnnycash.com, you can listen to johnny cash radio on your computer as I am doing now.
good morning
I will be on the blog today with new work..As I have to make glass art in brooklyn the rest of the week.
alex
alex
Sunday, August 5, 2007
my drafting table
I was looking tonight at my drafting table where I do my non- easel work. I realized it had some character in it's own right. If you look closely by chance you will see a dragon fly had landed on it (I did not see it until after I took the photo.) You could never intentionally make an abstract painting as good as this because you would screw it up by thinking too much. Da vinci suggested throwing a sponge against a wall to get random effects in which you could see armies and clouds and other such things to use as a basis for your art. I bought this table in 2002 for $25 dollars at a garage sale in dobbs ferry ny. I think I have done about 3000-4000 pictures on this table.
Great novel!
I once wrote about the artist Alfred Kubin. Here is his novel I ordered off amazon. I am half done and it is brilliant and a great book to read. It has a hallucinatory feel and an amazing premise. If anyone buys it and reads it let me know what you think. Kubin is an unknown genius and this amazing novel is almost unknown and deserves to be read.
alex
she has to go
my friend gave me this old picture of mine he bought in 2000. I love the piece bought-- I dont like the memories of my ex staring back from my wall...I must let her go. I am selling her framed for 300.00 plus shipping which could be up to 50.00 dollars. I have such mixed feelings as I like the piece but the past must go. email me if you are interested..
it is 25 by 30 roughly
iris woman
a sky made of gold
I was thinking about things we take for granted like waking up and breathing air (which is free) and then I was thinking about the idea if the air was not free and then wondered what it would be like if the air was replace by a commodity like gold. This is not a "pollution" piece of art or a statement it is just more of a story idea about the air turning into gold...I painted this on top of an old watercolor I had left outside and it got ruined by the rain and left me the idea for an interesting visual exploration...
watercolor/ charcoal/ gold leaf on watercolor paper
12 x 18
ebay:
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quote of the day
hard work pays off in the long run but laziness pays off right now....
steven wright
I thought of this while I was out in my kayak not working today.
steven wright
I thought of this while I was out in my kayak not working today.
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