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Two Paintings Completed

by cooper on 5/30/2008 7:38:02 PMComment on this

Greetings!

I have two signed paintings to show you today! The first has been charted here on the project blog in previous entries. The second is from the studio group I paint with at the Pearson Lakes Art Center.

Park Bench Confidantes is an acrylic painting on a gallery wrapped canvas. It measures a lovely 20 x 30 inches. I worked from a combination of photos and a mirror, and no, I don't look like either one of these people :) I find that photos often lie about people, and when you are painting at odd hours of the night with no models available, often a mirror can give you the info that a photo neglects to provide. At any rate, don't you wonder what they are talking about? Probably life in general!

Never A Backward Glance is also an acrylic painting on a gallery wrapped canvas. It's a bit smaller, 16 x 20 inches. This painting is done from a live model at one of our studio painting sessions at the Pearson Lakes Art Center. Our studio group meets for two hours, the first hour is devoted to short poses, with one long pose the second hour. I think once I managed to get an entire painting done in the session, but normally it comes back to my studio, leans on the wall for a while, until I determine what it needs to be complete.

I have two other pieces leaning on the wall now, that are demanding my attention. If all goes well, you'll see them soon!

Later, Cooper

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burning the midnight oil, er, acrylic

by cooper on 5/27/2008 11:52:15 PM1 Comment

Greetings!

Yep, it's late. I never make promises about blog quality when the clock says what it's saying right now! But, I have my first art fair of the season coming up, and I want to be able to show a painting that I have been having too much fun with!

I am calling this one 'Park Bench Confidantes' Nope, it's not done yet, but I do like the progress I made tonight!

I am still beleaguered with the impressionistic bug in my studio. While I was spending too much time at the greenhouse, NOT painting, I wondered if it had vacated the premises while I was gone. I am also back to the thought of earlier that maybe what I'm calling impressionistic is really not, but rather what an author of a book I recently read, called 'daubs and splodges' Very possibly 'daubs and splodges' leaves room for a more open interpretation? :) At any rate, I smacked the paint brush (loaded) around my canvas with gusto tonight.

Later, Cooper

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blocked in and running with it

by cooper on 5/22/2008 9:20:30 PMComment on this

Howdy!

I had about three hours in the studio today, and they were good ones! I have been thinking about painting people on park benches and all of a sudden, here's number one. My goal was to get the shapes blocked in tonight, but whew, it just kept on going!

I think it wants to be called 'Park Bench Confidantes'. What do you think?

If you are not on my mailing list for the 'quarterly newsletter' which included my summer schedule of art shows, hop over to my other blog as I'll be posting it there as well.

Later Cooper

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needing summer

by cooper on 5/21/2008 9:40:50 PMComment on this

Greetings!

I have fallen from the block-a-painting-in-each-day mode. Aaargh.
I do believe life has taken over me. But in true rebellion form, I have a beginning of a painting to show you anyway. This one got it's name with either the fourth or fifth brushstroke :)

'I Could Stay Here All Summer' very possibly indicative that I'm ready for a vacation! Back to painting.

Cooper

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