Modern Primitives
These paintings represent a departure from my more traditional impressionist work. They are painted on paper over a layer of fine pumice to give texture to the surface. Then I lay color on in layers using dry brush technique. I call them Modern Primitives because they remind me of artifacts from some forgotten ancient civilization.
For me these paintings evoke artifacts from some forgotten civilization. Totems or masks. This one also has a little Silence of the Lambs vibe going too.
15” x 11” acrylic on gessoed archival paper.
The world is full of colorful beetles, this is not one of them. But if I were to design a beetle, it might look like this.
15” x 11” acrylic on gessoed archival paper.
This started out as an alphabet painting but I decided I didn’t like the drawing so I painted it out. I saw a fish in the new layer, but when I got into it I hated it. So I covered it with a coat of magenta and heavy gel medium. This finally appeared. Flower?
15” x 11” acrylic on gessoed archival paper.
This one is based on one of those quick doodles that seem to leap off the pen, I think I started by drawing an oval that became the body of the goat. Or is it a antelope? Certainly no species that exists in this world. I’m pretty happy with the colors. The background was originally dark blue, but as soon as I put a dab of that red on, I knew it had to be the top layer, with a little of the blue showing through.
This guy seems like a friendly snake. But do we ever really know?
Shout out to Mark at Bam Bam Graphix who does a remarkable job capturing the three dimensional nature of these hard to scan pieces. He’s a master technician and really good artist in his own right.
20” x 15” acrylic on gessoed archival paper
15” x 11” acrylic on gessoed archival paper.