“Process: a blank canvas becomes a painting”
The scourge of the writer… it’s time to begin the story, but where? When? Who? How? For the visual artist, it’s “the blank white canvas,” stark, flat and looking very much like the white snow-filled scene outside my studio window on this January day. I may or may not know what my next subject will be, [...]
“Moment of Engagement”
Yesterday, a frigid Sunday in December, I decided it was time for me to resume painting. It’s been several weeks since I put palette knife to canvas; so, I had to go through the process of setting up my space, beginning with covering the floor with a green oil cloth. Next, I laid out my tubes [...]
Artist’s Process – Fixing the unfixable?
I’ve been working on a painting which I have carried in my mind for many moons. It’s a view of the marsh at high-tide at Kiawah, S.C. I’ve painted the marshes before, mostly in an abstracted landscape form; but this time, I wanted to try realism, to a point. I decided to use a 24″x48″ [...]
20″x20″ Doesn’t work for me
Today, I returned to my easel; lo and behold, that 20″ x 20″ canvas was still there. I had hoped that someone might have tip-toed in (during the night or this morning while I was out at yoga) and whisked it away! No such luck; the challenge still stood. “I’ll give it another try,” I [...]
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