Slow Start blogging again 2023- Studio

 The Studio life is the reality I find between the realizations between my drawing and painting.

I'm asked a lot where I paint. 

I've been painting upstate since the pandemic. Before that I drew in Brooklyn studio then worked from those ideas upstate. Now NM studio is main painting studio and I draw most of the winter in a studio in the house. Upstate. I enjoy the interactions between these different places. I also paint in seasonal weather in the large barn we have. I enjoy the changes.

I started again my plain air painting upstate. The seasonal change has always attracted me. I keep a set of painting gear, and I just rush out when amazed by the change--again! I was going to miss the Day Lilies as I was out west but arrived just in time for the last of them--so amazed by the difference from the dry hot west--I launched into a new bunch of plain air. Been wanting to add another level to the things I've done with them thus far. The Forsythia from the spring crept into NM paintings as a different space or flavor to the figure. The Day Lilies could appear in a similar way--?

So arbitrarily I will add photos til I get a rhythm of ideas for this Blog.

So as I was painting back in NM I was called back to NY in June, so I took opportunity to solidify further ideas I was working on out west.

I have a group of new figure paintings. They are very different but then not so different. I like literally drawing them together-- getting the brush strokes to relate abstractly. I has helped me draw figuratively and also to see the abstract possibility.

So then in July, NM.

These paintings are all Untitled #1-6, oil on canvas, 2023

This all June and July 2023.

Resuming Studio Blog, Spring, 2020, Canaan, Virus Pandemic, Drawing

I have been sporadic at these postings. Facebook is maybe more useful. Instagram a record of my progress.

But both are misleading. I thought it might help to organize my thoughts to a deeper level.

Spring is the time my winter thoughts, which can be all over the place, maybe somewhat unconscious come more together.

My thoughts, ideas, become the new drawings. I should have been recording them here as there are many unrecorded.

So I'll try for a synopsis. The last couple of years I have drawn in Brooklyn through the Winter.

I guess this will take a few posts to get back to date.

It is still cold here now upstate and so have set up a drawing studio here, as I am sequestered for the time being.

My thoughts though are beginning to take the shape of a new figure. They are seen in the winter drawings.

And a second idea, the continuing of an older idea of the leaves-- a project for the Barn perhaps as it gets warmer.

Spring Paintings, Canaan

Finished these in oil in last weeks of May 2019.

Canaan, Blue Idea, Studio, September and October 2018

Studio August 2018, Blue Idea

Earlier Western Lagoon Studio pictures as old as 2012 contributing to recent 2018 Blue Idea paintings.

2017 finishing up in December, High Water, and Southern Route up into Colorado

Here are the ends of my years painting. December 2017. I always or recently see things in the paintings lent up against each other as they dry, or are just moved around.