Friday, April 18, 2014

2 COLD







It's really still cold here, time for a change. Where can I go that's not too expensive but at least 

WARM





My friend Skip's trailer park in.................Florida (gun capital of the western world)


with paths to....somewhere


green leaves


muscle car museums


big roads to......?


even at night


plenty of bridges


over plenty of water


under some sky


but WARM


















Wednesday, January 8, 2014

FACES



Do I know you??



I did this painting titled "Portrait".  It's sort of strange in that it is quite difficult to decide if it's male or female,young or old.  Just recognizable as a person. With no identity.




People in certain pictures have unmistakable identities even when you haven't seen them in fifty years


my grandfather



Some I've never met but have come to know them very well by painting them
Werner Heisenberg

Sometimes the portrait reflects the personality of the person

Some are hidden from identification




While other escape our notice




Even in a quick sketch the human form is the most interesting subject





and the variety endless





Saturday, July 20, 2013

Ideas





.........and how they arrive





      Waking up one morning and in that time of suspended animation before reality comes into sharp focus, I had an idea. A complete idea that was somewhat complicated. I had to buy a red ribbon and  take photos of it falling to the ground, then do paintings of  the results.


Sleep I


Sleep II

                                It wasn't until after I finished two versions that I realized it was simply about sleep.

                                                                                ______________________

              I always enjoy painting things that cannot be seen.  Like painting light streaking by on the highway.


Light

or out a train window
or a subway
                                                                                           _______________


                                                            I have a bad leg and often trip and fall at the beach.


Falling

__________________



No matter how distant, unclear or in what language , physiologically hearing is attuned to the human voice. I wonder if something similar  exists for vision.



Modern Moroccans


Heisenberg







Saturday, April 20, 2013

Real / Abstract







All the new apartments in New York city have one thing in common , clean lines. I decided to do a painting of a wall in our old house in Marrakech.A simple realistic picture of light on a white plaster wall. A 500 year old mud brick riad has no straight walls or square corners. I thought this would be an easy painting but.......


the first attempt was a disaster - It looked like cheap wall paper in an Earls Court bedsit

try again

this time I used a trowel to apply the paint

it was beginning to look like the real thing, sort of real abstract

Add a couple of lines for cracks and it looked even better

some shadows and it was finished "Marrakech shadow wall " on paper

another real abstract on paper  "64-11"




"I don't know why I never painted an abstract painting . It's so easy" Andy Warhol











Wednesday, March 6, 2013

From Marrakech to Sidi Ifni





Kotoubia-Marrakech 
Cyberpark- Marrakech
Bahia Palace- Marrakech
the road to Essaouira 
Essaouira souk
the mud brick walls in Tiznit
a fruit stall -Tiznit medina
Tiznit
Sidi Ifni - medina Xanadu Maison d'hotes


the town square at Sidi Ifni
the Atlantic coast- Sidi Ifni
the dome at right is a Qouba the tomb of Ifni









Friday, February 1, 2013

Drawing








Here are some recent efforts



Gretchen my grandaughter

Henry my Grandson

some dude from the street

some nude dude

the good thing about drawing is that no special or elaborate setups or materials are needed.
you just need to start.

my cat mimi from Marrakech checks out a drawing


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