Thursday, December 31, 2020

Sliced Pineapple on Table

Acrylic paint on 12" X 16" canvas, Pineapple series part 5

Saturday, November 28, 2020

Wednesday, October 14, 2020

Blackbird by the Beatles


BLACKBIRD 

Beatles song, my art
Black & white acrylic paint on 24" X 36" canvas board 

 BLACKBIRD SINGING IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT
TAKE THESE BROKEN WINGS AND LEARN TO FLY
ALL YOUR LIFE
YOU WERE ONLY WAITING FOR THIS MOMENT TO ARISE

BLACKBIRD SINGING IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT
TAKE THESE SUNKEN EYES AND LEARN TO SEE 
ALL YOUR LIFE
YOU WERE WAITING FOR THIS MOMENT TO BE FREE

BLACKBIRD FLY, BLACKBIRD FLY
INTO THE LIGHT OF A DARK BLACK NIGHT

BLACKBIRD FLY, BLACKBIRD FLY
INTO THE LIGHT OF A DARK BLACK NIGHT

BLACKBIRD SINGING IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT 
TAKE THESE BROKEN WINGS AND LEARN TO FLY
ALL YOUR LIFE
YOU WERE ONLY WAITING FOR THIS MOMENT TO ARISE 
YOU WERE ONLY WAITING FOR THIS MOMENT TO ARISE 
YOU WERE ONLY WAITING FOR THIS MOMENT TO ARISE 


I gave this to my physical therapist, Dr Handling, in Newark, Delaware, for his office. My sister-in-law, Dr Rae Todaro, requested a copy for her office.

Thursday, October 8, 2020

Rooster

 This was painted with acrylics on a 6" X 3" canvas board, which was why I had such difficulty with it 




Wednesday, October 7, 2020

Old collage pieces made years ago

 These are old pieces I recently rediscovered. I made them by applying some metal gears and some wooden cutouts I ordered. All work done with acrylic paints on 8" X 10" canvas boards.



Ducklings In Sun


Ducks are wooden cutouts
Sun is a metal gear





Gears


The gears in Gears are made of wooden and metal pieces I ordered 










Saturday, October 3, 2020

My Rothko 1

This image was painted with acrylic paints on a 18" X 24"  canvas board.
It was shot badly with too much light in one corner.

I never liked Rothko because,  toward the end of his life, he was so depressed that he killed himself and you can see this depression in his later work, but there's no denying his genius 

 

Friday, September 18, 2020

Monday, September 7, 2020

Mondrian, Eat Your Heart Out

 Done on 12 X 16 inch Soho Urban Artist Paint Board, 

with cut construction paper, pasted with

 Elmer's School Glue, drawn on with a pencil. 

I tried drawing with paint markers, 

but the markers didn't appear on the scanner 




City At Sunset


Acrylic paints on six inch square canvas board

 

Exhausted

 Would you believe that at 3am Monday morning, I just had to get up and paint my Tree With Birds? I wanted to try a different technique. I just made a few strokes of color, using these miserable acrylic pens I finally figured out how to use. They are put together terribly. The wrong end of the pens comes off!


So, by 5, I put that in this blog, and Yellow Circle, and City At Sunset, while I was at it.


Yellow Circle

Done with acrylic paints on
 Two foot by one and a half foot canvas board 

 

Tree With Birds, acrylic pen


 Tree With Birds, done with acrylic pens on 6" X 3" canvas board

Saturday, August 22, 2020

Lines

 I covered a 9" X 12" canvas board with masking tape, then applied black and white acrylic paint. I then removed the tape and filled the tape space with lines from Prang Classic Markers. For the record, I'm no big fan of Prang or their markers. They just happened to be handy.

Friday, August 21, 2020

Dirty

Acrylic paint and green marker on 8" X10" canvas board

 Acrylic paint and green Crayola marker on 8" X 10" canvas board 

This one was really easy. The day before, I decided to make a few backgrounds, just backgrounds, for future use. 

This morning I looked at this and just pulled out my green Crayola marker. My only problem was keeping the marker from smudging.

Wednesday, July 22, 2020

City Map

Done with acrylic pens on 9" X 12" canvas board.
The blue lines are major highways. The green areas are parks. The gold are major buildings, such as museums or city buildings 



Red on Green


July Text Writing

     This is something new for this blog. Usually I just display my latest art pieces on this blog, but I was reading that it would be good for any art fans and viewers of this blog to know what I've been doing lately, so, as far as my art goes, this is what I've done lately
      I've decided to submit more pieces to contests run by the Light, Space & Time online art gallery. While I have never outright won any of their contests or even came close, several times they saw fit to display my work with other great entries and theirvwere even a few times when they said my work had special merit or deserved special recognition, so I decided to enter all three of their current contests.
     For their Primary Colors contest, I entered two copies of my Dog With Glasses prints, one in red and the other in blue.

     For their Animal contest, I again entered my red Dog With Glasses, but this time added my photographic collage, my Dog Nosed Washington.

     Their third contest was honoring their tenth anniversary, so I could enter ten pieces for $10.
      They include:
Demon Eye

   


Lines on Red