So there's a hiatus of entries while I've been on a project. Since August, Anne and I have been working mostly on rescuing an old house in Fayetteville. Nothing fancy, just solid work. It is causing a lot of creative tension for me. Sure do have fresh eyes for painting though.
The other day I stumbled on the painter William F. Reese in an old Southwest Art Magazine and followed Google to the following punch line:
"I feel like I've received a half dozen invitations to a party and when I arrive I find it's all over."
This is the critique that Reese gave Sergei Bongart about his painting in a show they both participated in. The point was that the painting had been "set up" to direct the viewer to the focal point, but the focal point seemed incomplete. This line has been in my mind as I look at the pile of my unfinished work and begin to rescue some of it.
The full story can be found in:
Who's opinionated?
August, 2009
Great Expectations
Ocean Eddie's
Curled Up
I sent these 3 paintings last week to Corsicana, Texas for a
juried show,
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