The Pandemic Years
After a enlightening Art residency in Venice in April of 2019, the year 2020 arrived with a virus. I was able to go to Mexico in the early winter of 2020 before things got really desperate. Those sketches are included on the Mexico page. Also I participated in an selected art show at the new Two Pillar Brewery. My Winter art group enjoyed a group event of a daily painting challenge. We painted one small painting (4x6 index card) each day and posted them. It was a refreshing change from the worries of Covid.
For The Tall Tales art show I showed the two works below called Elon's Lunch 1 and 2, in March 2022.
The bountiful harvest on my daughter’s farm sparked the idea for these two paintings. It always astounds me. The tiny seeds that grow into these huge monstrous squash. There are also at least a million tomatoes and another of melons, eggplants, pumpkins and much more. They are out of this world. I wanted to paint the amazingly large squash, especially. I wanted to express it’s weight and extreme size.
I started work on the painting using some new techniques to make a more textured surface. I used drywall tapes, and other items to make different patterns on the forms. I rubbed Micaceous Iron Oxide, on top of the textured surface, giving it a warm plumy black colour with a slight mica sparkle to it.
As the painting progressed, the added texture and the support size, the abstract forms revealed a very celestial impression. They were of the universe and universal.
I thought Elon Musk would approve. Maybe he would bump into to these on his way to Mars. Just a thought.
For The Tall Tales art show I showed the two works below called Elon's Lunch 1 and 2, in March 2022.
The bountiful harvest on my daughter’s farm sparked the idea for these two paintings. It always astounds me. The tiny seeds that grow into these huge monstrous squash. There are also at least a million tomatoes and another of melons, eggplants, pumpkins and much more. They are out of this world. I wanted to paint the amazingly large squash, especially. I wanted to express it’s weight and extreme size.
I started work on the painting using some new techniques to make a more textured surface. I used drywall tapes, and other items to make different patterns on the forms. I rubbed Micaceous Iron Oxide, on top of the textured surface, giving it a warm plumy black colour with a slight mica sparkle to it.
As the painting progressed, the added texture and the support size, the abstract forms revealed a very celestial impression. They were of the universe and universal.
I thought Elon Musk would approve. Maybe he would bump into to these on his way to Mars. Just a thought.