During the past week, I have been gathering images to reform the 'Gallery' section on my site...(Sold works, Available works and New works), while doing so, I realized a number of paintings sold from my final exhibition 'Wavelengths' in Melbourne ...
Read moreLakewood Home Tour Auction donation painting
I thought I would share with you the painting I have donated to the 'Lakewood Home Tour Auction'. I hope it sells along with the many other items on Auction and makes some money for our schools! So many people have worked hard to make this weekend...
Read moreLakewood Home Tour 3rd grade Art Auction Painting
Today Blis and I finished putting together the 3rd grade Art piece for the local fundraiser the 'Lakewood Home Festival'. This is a major fundraiser in the Dallas area and supports our districts major schools (Lakewood Elementary, JL Long and Wood...
Read moreExperimenting with a new style in the same palette
It has been a while since I have blogged. Sometimes life just gets so busy there is just time for painting and family. It has been one of those months! I thought it was time to share a couple of the paintings I have been working on though. One see...
Read moreResolve; not to let the heat beat me!
Here in Dallas we are in our seventh week of 100F (37C) plus consecutively! It has reached 108F on a number of those day! I am slowly aclimatizing but my materials are not. I am having to learn how to paint in a slightly different manner in order ...
Read moreThe MOMA conclusion on paper!
It was a nice surprise to receive this yesterday. It???s a reminder of a fabulous couple of months full of pushing outside of the comfort zone. It seemed every artist challenged me in some way and from those that challenged me the best, I learnt the...
Read moreMy latest finished work
Here is the latest painting with the Turquoise, Royal Blue, Magenta, Naples Yellow and Titanium Palette. I really had fun with this one. I let the brush be my guide for random strokes in the faith they would come together once all down. I think th...
Read moreBack to work!
Having finished the course with MoMA, I have finally got back in the studio and begun a new series of works! I decided to begin where I left off in Australia, with my new vibrant palette of Magenta, Turquoise, Indigo, Naples and Titanium. It has b...
Read moreAd Reinhardt ??? two weeks of preparation!
I was intrigued to study Reinhardt, having heard about his all over ???Black paintings??? for many years. They seemed to divide people in regard to how they observed art. I have heard many people scoff that an all ???Black painting??? is an excuse for a p...
Read morePhilip Guston ???
These Oil and Medium Calligraphic studies were my homework assignment. From the outset it didn???t seem as though there was any way I was going to be able to relate to Guston. On a quick survey of his work I realized he was an artist of continual ch...
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In the Studio test 2
Read moreMark Rothko...one of my favorite artists of all time!
My homework assignment for the week: This was the week I was looking forward to most of all. Mark Rothko has been my inspiration since seeing his 'Red on Red' painting at the National Gallery in Australia a decade ago. I still remember my first en...
Read moreMoMA Summer Courses...
MoMA have opened registration for their Summer Courses. http://www.moma.org/learn/courses/courses Check out the link for an array of fabulous offerings from MoMA. I can highly recommend the online learning. I had my reservations before commencing ...
Read moreJackson Pollock
Here are my homework pieces for the week: So here was the week I suspect most of us were looking forward to. Every one knows of Jackson Pollock, or 'Jack the Dripper 'as he affectionately became known! The work he made in the last 5 years of his p...
Read moreWillem DeKooning...
Initially, I wasn't going to share my homework assignment for this week, as in truth, I didn't really manage to execute the task properly. The ground and the figure are separate in my work and DeKooning 's figures were very much merged with the gr...
Read moreRobert Ryman...
Above are 4 examples of my homework of the week for Ryman. They are on canvas pad, which I found to be an economical means to multiple experiments. Although most people think of him as an abstract painter, Ryman considers himself to be a Realist p...
Read moreBarnett Newman...
My Newman study. (I hadn't learnt the crop or centering program at this point for the upload!) Now that my course with MOMA has finished I have time to share with you the artists we studied and some of what I learned about their techniques and the...
Read moreI am doing a course at MOMA in NY!
Last month I went back to school! Not just any school???.I am studying at MOMA. The Museum of Modern Art in New York City!!! The course is titled ???Materials and Techniques of Post War, New York Abstract Painter???s???. The instructor is Corey d???Augustin...
Read moreStudio complete!
Ready to start painting! Finally, after 10 weeks, our shipment arrived and although I was excited to see furniture and personal effects I had missed on a daily basis, I got a serious lump in my through when the first boxes of canvas??? were unpacked...
Read moreOut and about in Dallas!
We have been making the most of our weekend???s to take in some Dallas Art Culture! This weekend we went to ???The Dallas Flea???. A well run flea market, housing designer stalls selling everything from jewellery and designer tee???s to Artist???s showcasin...
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