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So here I am, on Facebook at last. Well, at least this Art Blog is on Facebook. Our family blog has appeared there lo these many months. And you know what they say about fool’s faces in public places…. The photo is of yours truly painting on Hawthorne Boulevard, a couple of years ago. I…

The last of the five groups of paintings from the Petrified Forest Residency is titled “The Painted Desert, 2.”  It is a counterpart of the fourth grouping shown in the last blog, and acts more as a bookend, echoing “The Painted Desert, 1” . Its one bit of commentary lies in the tiny part of…

This post features  Group Four of the five groupings of seventeen paintings I did at the northeast Arizona Petrified Forest National Park. The earlier three groupings on the blog are “Natural Monuments,”  “Cultural Monuments,” and “Recent Developments.” The groupings were done partly to present relationships among the paintings and the environment and subject matter, and…

I had originally thought to make a somewhat rectangular whole of these 17 paintings from the Petrified Forest. I planned to surround the paintings of the human developments with paintings of the natural landscape. However, the resulting conglomeration of paintings was too large and didn’t hang together, visually speaking, very well. However, when I set…

Cultural Monuments: The Painted Desert Inn, The Main Visitors’ Center, Route 66 Memorial, Oil on masonite, 2010 This is the second “set” of paintings that seem to have their own chorus within the group of seventeen paintings. The paintings, from top to bottom, are first, the Spanish Revival adobe structure which served for a time…

My most recently completed studio painting: January Sky, approximately 30 x 36″ (I haven’t measured it yet), acrylic on canvas, 2011. This is not a plein air painting. It was inspired by a walk up SE Salmon Street, late one afternoon a few weeks ago. The clouds were gray, but somehow a light was pouring…

On this blog it is often the case that the paintings that appear to be finished get reworked, changed, even deleted and recycled. Generally speaking it’s easer to tell when the textile work is still in progress. The photo above is a case in point, pins and all. The only way I can be sure…

I spent most of the day finishing the panel cutting, taping, and tacking up. The process looks rather elegant in this photo, although I could have cropped out a bunch of concrete. But then what would the tarantula have had to wander about on? Here’s panels 5, 6, and 7, lined up, waiting for decisions…

It seems essential to rethink the Beatty experience. First, because I’m hoping to return and continue this Journal in November 2009 (god willin’ and the crick don’t rise, and knock on wood with some salt thrown over my shoulder ). I’m going back to do what I had hoped at one point in my earlier…

I am totally wiped. The Studio is half ready for visitors. I made a mistake with labeling, after we had hung and adjusted lights, and  when we left the Barn at 5:45 this evening, things were still in disarray. The Open Studio is scheduled for 10 AM tomorrow; I’ll be there, in what array, I…