Yesterday, I built the surfaces above.Today, I finished the drawings below (177 in the end).
A quadrant of four might look like this:
Its purpose was to provide an aid to contemplation and meditation. The paintings were designed to enrich the spirit of the individual who looked at them by revealing the essence of a universal, natural order. For this reason, landscape painters avoided bright colors, which were deemed too sensual and transitory. . .. . . Shunning the use of a single, fixed perspective, opting instead to create multiple viewpoints within the picture. This encouraged the eye to move around the composition, exploring individual highlights, similar to a traveler passing through a country scene. The Chinese described this approach to landscape with the term "woyou", which means "wandering while lying down." - David G. Wilkens
Coming soon: My still life with floral arrangement and bird.
9 comments:
how does one play "uncle wiggily" ?
Uncle Wiggily is played exactly like Candy Land.
The panels are bee-yoo-tee-full!!!
Aren't the panels cool? It is a shame that I have to fill all the brad holes, and lock all that wood into a sandwich of primer.
The first set of four really took my breath away. true story.
They are beautiful .. is this for your upcoming show?
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It is a shame, I cringe every time I apply the primer to my birch panels. But I clear coat the backs so it's not all covered up.
That second shot of all your drawings all laid out is amazing, but where is the dog?:)
Wow! I love the image of the 177 drawings.
Steven LaRose said...
Linda - thanks sis.
Eva - These drawings are for a limited edition letterpress book I am doing with the poet Shin Yu Pai. Shin Yu wrote some spot on poems to go with 18 of my ink drawings. Each book will have an original 4" x 4.5" ink drawing "tipped in" to the book.
Interestingly, the exercise profoundly effected what I wanted to put in "the upcoming show".
Tracy- I once did a cluster of about 20 paintings with shellac on the back. They were so warm. But, these new paintings need black on the back. The images already rely too much on wood grain.
My Mom asked the same question: "where is the dog?" She was curled up on the kitchen floor behind the expanding child safety gate. Look how cool the cat is though. Jake just sat in the sun the whole time.
Thanks Mary-
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