sangres with clouds 1 32x38” oil on linen, date?
2:36 PM:i posted these 4 paintings of the sangres with clouds last week. three of them, including this one, are 32x38,” oil on linen. one has a date: 2001, i think this one & the other two without dates were painted more recently. if i do a bit of boring research, i could probably find an exact date. but my record keeping leaves something to be desired.
the reason i’m bringing this up today is that, ever since i discovered these in my newly constructed storage space, i’ve had the feeling that i might want to turn them into a limited edition series of prints. whomever i show them to seems to like them a lot, especially residents of our slv, (san luis valley). so i made an initial call to a well respected imaging company in denver and got the info i was looking for: how much would it cost & how long would it take? so i may very well have these prints avaiable for sale at my aspen cmc show. one copy of each would be framed under glass so people could see what they were purchasing. ihaven’t yet decided how many would be in each edition & what the dimensions would be. 20x30” seems the most likely. each limited edition print would be signed and numbered. so if, for example, i were to decide to do an edition of 100, you might get one that says 84/100 with my siignature in the lower corener.
by the way, the thunderstorms we’ve been hoping and waiting for just started. let’s hope we get more than a smattering. we’re on theedge of extreme drought, so boy do we need it!!
blue-green 7/18/19 colored pencil on archival paper, 12x20”
1:44 PM: i spent 2 hours this morning cleaning up, following one more ant infestation, this time in the master bath shower. they were everywhere when we went to take showers last night, but i was too tired to do what needed to be done, so i just sprayed them & took care of cleaning up the mess this morning.
pest control was out here spraying just this past tuesday, but it didn’t prevent them from barging in.
i’m in a dry spell with my work, following the close of my space gallery exhibition in denver. these post exhibition blahs have happened in the past, so i’m not really worried about it. instead of trying to paint (how can you try to paint?) i’ve been browsing through past works: in oil on canvas, gouache/watercolor on paper and pencil on paper. in part, this is in preparation for my septmeber 29 opening at cmc aspen.
so i decided to post whatever painting i come across that seems worthy of being seen by you, the visitors to my (almost) daily blog. this one seems to have a title: blue-green, for obvious reasons, and was done on 7/18/2019. was it done on site….is it a plein air piece? maybe. it has the spontaneity and dash of a plein air drawing, done in colored pencil. that branch thrusting it’s way up the center of the composition rules, announcing itself as the key element, as well as adding phallic undertones. the yellow marks towards the top help create balance, and the green strokes made with the side of a pencil create a wavy, creek inspired motion. if it happens to make it’s way into my cmc (colorado mountain college) show, it will be framed under glass and priced reasonably, as most works on paper are.