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Packing Up the Red Branches

6/28/2013

Red Branches Silhouette Watercolor Painting

In packing up the studio yesterday for the upcoming move to the SW I ran across this lovely painting Ariana did a number of years ago during a trip to Bainbridge Island. It is a large watercolor portrait of the detritus around the studio we were using during our visit, and will now be part of the wistful record of Pacific Northwest flora we'll undoubtedly pine for when living in the desert.

This silhouette-based work has been part of a collaboration we've done in the past. As I've already created close to two dozen panels for a future iteration of this project it will be interesting to see if a new landscape inspires a similar approach.

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Salmon River Estuary

10/17/2012

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Sea Stacks and the Dead Duck

11/13/2011

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Last weekend included a foray to the Oregon Coast; a place that never fails to incite the imagination with its majestic combination of meteorological atmospherics and geologic drama. Like every other visitor to Cannon Beach I succumbed to the dynamic magnetism of Haystack Rock, but I did not allow it to blind my camera to nature's other realities.

Here then is an utterly unencumbered picture of death the likes of which only a nature outside of human sentiment can conjure.

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Art at a Beach House (in Prose)

7/4/2011

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What sort of art might you expect to find in a three-story, ten bedroom, luxury beach house get-a-way? In one word: plenty. Here's a partial inventory of the works on display in one such house along the Outer Banks of North Carolina. . .

a poly-chromed balsa wood tug boat balancing precariously on two wooden balls and missing at least five tires
one abstract acrylic painting photographed and printed on board with an umber orange sky and cream scumbled ground separated by a blue line leaking blood down the left side of the composition (the upper right corner of the sky also pierced and bleeding towards land)— all coated with a pebbly application of gel medium and floating in open black frame
two teapot sized ceramic shells with milky smooth cavities
Photoshopped mono print triptych of palm tree crowns matted in a frame meant to emulate the texture of a palm trunk
mounted print of gel medium rendered palm tree stoically saluting a white nothingness bordered in a distressed Venetian frieze of botanical shapes
black glass planter with torn sheets of gold leaf entombed below the surface
4' canvas print of a painting showing a Tuscan village tucked among rolling hills: with real paint highlights applied on top to emphasize sun washed roof lines and flowery fields
earthenware jellybean-shaped vase with black nipple
two cast plastic Florentine roundels with antique bronze finish in similarly finished frames (like ficticious spoila from the ceiling of an Old World ballroom; very opulent)
black and gold paper collage with cardboard bits arranged in gridded pattern before painted with gold and mounted on a generous expanse of black paper (signed in gold pen with pink marble mat and bronzed frame)
botanical watercolor reproduction of a lemon yellow tropical flower with the artist's signature mostly obscured by off-center and crooked maroon mat
three poly-chromed ceramic fish on wooden plinths
ceramic cast of a wicker basket with dark brown undertone accented with rubbed gold paint on high points (and gold glitter on bottom of the interior)
two white serving trays displayed on end with primary and secondary color stripes framing a center image of a schooner and white beach lounge chair in the shoals, respectively
two inkjet printouts of Roman planters with ripped edges (the edges painted black) floating over carved styrofoam blocks painted to resemble stone, all of which sits atop gloss black corrugated card stock in a shadowbox with gray marbled mats and burnished white gold frames

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Packing Up the Red Branches

Salmon River Estuary

Sea Stacks and the Dead Duck

Art at a Beach House (in Prose)

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