05/12/2008 17:31:59

These are cadmiums both red deep and green, so don't try to eat it, for heavens sake!

Fiddleheads are a spring delicacy, 'yankee asparagus', perhaps, and they soon unroll into ferns.  They appear just before rhubarb.

 
The background was painted very pale, with contrast values in the fractions of two or three lightest 10ths of the grey scale.  The reds/oranges are really cadmium mixed with either white or caput mortum.  It really isn't that orange in person. 

This was one of 4 large (44"x55") canvases from my residency at the Vermont Studio Center.  It is really nice to paint uninterrupted except to be fed; and to collapse with other artists in the lounge when you can't hold a brush. I think they call it "immersion" in foreign language teaching, and isn't painting just a kind of language?

Yes, the clouds kinda echo the fiddleheads, and the fact that the trees fall behind the clouds was a happy accident.

05/07/2008 12:20:51

what are fiddleheads?

05/06/2008 11:10:31

Is this one of your new images?  Yummy fields. I Love the depth, the composition, and of course your wonderful color...but I  don;t get the clouds...tellme about it.  Is the other new image the one before this? --Can't wait to hear about your week. Isn't there a way you can post to a bunchof us at once?  --jane

05/05/2008 19:01:10

i don't know which painting i like better. the composition of the lightening strike piece intriques me.  the way the vanishing point is waaay off to the right.  cool.

this one. YUM.  love it all. the red trees, the fiddleheads, it's magical quality.  the furrows--nice use!  did you go to vsc and did you work on these there? 

05/05/2008 18:18:30

gonna eat some of those! your landscapes are my favorites because they always draw me in

05/05/2008 17:03:21

 Hey love those spirals, especially the clouds.. really like the combination of the scarlet red, or red orange with the turquoise and greens, very nice.. It reminds me a little of Van Gogh, but smooth, flowing.  Really like the 3 trees in foreground, they are ornamental to the whole, adding almost a lens in which to view the landscape...