Second Round

Last week Sarah called me up for an impromptu plein air session. This is what I was able to accomplish in two hours:

It is oil on canvas and is 11 x 14 inches. I thought I might try and sell it on eBay, just like the first one. (click here if you want to place a bid).

. . . a visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium.

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I must confess a crush

Autumnal Goodwill Find

I bought this painting today for three dollars. I keep thinking that it is a fake. All the knife and sponge marks however, correspond to the appropriate colors. It cracks me up. I've been holding it up to the light at an angle and running my fingers over the surface like I'm a braille detective. I think every trick in the book was used to create this weird two dimensional wonder. And yet, that dang signature keeps making me suspicious.Is the paint in front of or behind the letters? And, "Labbetti painting" is almost a googlewhack, except instead of returning exactly one hit, it returns "Your search - Labbetti painting - did not match any documents."
UPDATE:
Item found on Ebay:

Context

While I was in my down swing the past couple of months, two items came across my virtual desk. Both were sent to me by other artists who saw something of my work in them. The first came from David and was spot on.
"I need Public Opinion! As I attempt to become a more righteous painter I have embraced medium of Encaustic (beeswax). It allows me to work in reverse. I normally have a well thought out composition, subject and color scheme, with Encaustic I start with an abstract series of marks that eventually suggest an image but nothing is preconceived.. Its like looking at clouds and eventually seeing Osama Bin Laden riding a mechanical Bull wearing a feather boa while blowing bubbles. ya know? I want to know what you see?? No holds Barred. No wrong answers. We can call this a collaborative art project... I will be sealing all of your comments on the back of each piece before sending them to the Galleries. To me it seems as though the art pendulum over time has slowly swung from realism to abstraction, excelerating greatly in the last two centuries. Perhaps we can push the pendulum back the other way by starting with complete chance driven abstraction and then extract imagery. I intend to use the Wax Onion as a vehicle to do just that. Thanks so much for your thoughts Sean Diediker"(sic)

The Wax Onion- Diediker Art Collaborative from sean Diediker on Vimeo.

The second item came from Marc. He wrote, "There's an interview of Roland Flexner in the September issue of Art in America that I thought might be of interest to you."

OMG. I feel ineffectual now. Here is a link to the PDF'ed articles about Flexner.
Thank you David and Marc. Now, if I can only thaw the bony Gollum hands that surround my confidence and harness this inspiration.

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. . . can sometimes have a pejorative meaning implying that the original recording should be regarded as the definitive or "authentic" version, and all others merely lesser competitors, alternatives or tributes (no matter how popular).


I've made drawings (like the ones above) of Albert Hurter's drawings before (click here). But it has been a couple years since I have done an image search on the Net. Here are three new additions that I found:

The purposes of (blank) are primarily contemplation (for the viewer) and the pleasant exercise of effort and ingenuity (for the (blanker)).

Monday morning gestures:

. . . a French expression which means "in the open air", and is particularly used to describe the act of painting outdoors.

I am very proud of the web strapping and ethafoam modifications I made to my Julian original French easel. The shoulder staps allowed me to comfortably walk up through Lithia Park and spend a couple of hours in therapy. Here is the 18 x 24 inch, oil on canvas attempted remediation of my health problem:

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Although this 6 x 6 inch square is not technically IN my sketchbook, I tried to maintain the spirit while walking the dogs (and en plein airing).

I'd love to tell you where this is along the trail, but I don't want to spoil the coordinates of this nearby and yet poorly hidden Geocache location. I mean, what is the point if I can glaringly see it?

. . . de-emphasizes theoretical knowledge in favor of direct realization through meditation and practice.

. . . is a disciplined art form in which nature and humanity are brought together.