Girl on Couch or "Red Hots and Valentines"

It took me twenty-seven years to get back to this idea.  On Friday I stumbled upon the sketchbooks that I was working from in July and August of 1985.  Here are two small sketches from the painting(-s) I finished in early August and September '85.  I never got around to painting the one below until this weekend.  Go figure.
The finished painting is from the left-hand sketch is owned by Jim and Ellen O'Hara.

Study for Lisa's Space, summer 1985

Study for Lisa's Sox,  fall 1985

flipped sketch

Girl on Couch  24" x 30" (in progress) oil on canvas
This is a straight-up figure painting (no bau irony) based on some old drawings from 1985 (some of you from long, long ago might recognize the model)- but the socks were borrowed from a newer set of paintings and a different model.

I managed to mangle the working drawing but here is a similar one from the same sitting.

New Black Dress and re-worked Dolphins

So, it has been some time coming, but this Black Dress (w/ Morandi Bottles) painting has finally come together.

 

 

 

 

Black Dress (w/ Morandi Bottles) oil on canvas, (2012

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                                          ...and this one has finally "gelled"

Woman in Hat w/ Dolphins oil on canvas (2008-2012)

Time for some work

This reminds me why I don't use color pencils.  New Jess from Old Jess, 22" x 30" color pencil and watercolor wash.

Get more paint on this and do something with these dolphins.

Bunn-evolution

From the start two years ago until now...(I am allergic to stuffed animals)

Lost Bunnies

This first set of bunnies (actually two separate canvases) began as a lark.  I was goofing around trying to justify taking this beat up old stuffed animal from my nephew.  I figured the only way I could really justify behavior like that would be to paint of draw this old rabbit.  The paintings were just quirky enough that I had to do more with the subject.  So, as "bunny" was sitting in the studio,on a chair with some cloth hanging over it...

Cloth Bunny

I started cloth bunny right before the Bau Movement group show and I was tired of playing with text and stencils and I was feeling the need to paint again.  But then I had three bunny paintings.

Beach Bunny

This is a 30" x 44" charcoal and inkwash drawing loosely based  on some family members at the Jersey shore. The Jersey shore just happens to be the place where Smitty was a life guard.

Bunny und Wehrmacht- This needs no explanation.

Study for PzKpfb II (Panzerkampfbunny)

No explanations for the next pieces either.  Yes, the model "Tiger" tank and P38 are just laying around in my studio.

PzKpfb II (Panzerkampfbunny)

M4 Bunny (gotta get one for the kids)

Bunny Gun (2011)

Trying to get something accomplished...Day Lilies and Flags

Blocking in the shapes and color.  Trying to get something going before the sun shifts too much.

Day Lilies and Flags 18" x 24" (oil on canvas) -trying to paint between household emergencies and day-to-day
 conspiracies.

 

A lot of sun and poison ivy made for a rough start

Late Spring

Day lilies I 2011   18" x 18" oil 

Dogs on drive 18" x 24" oil on canvas 2011

Leghorns are going...

Leghorns (Pony Up) - mixed media on paper 24.5" x 32.5"

to 12 12 Gallery in Richmond Virginia as part of its International Juried Works on Paper Exhibition.
The show runs from June 24 through August 19, 2011.  Drop in to check it out if you are in Richmond.

Some new landscape stuff

Azaleas  (18" x 24") oil on canvas

click here for more - Landscape page

Azaleas (completed)

Sabine (new and old)

Sabine (Wrong Thought- Firenze) 24" x 18" acrylic on canvas, completed January 2010.

Sabine (Wrong Thought) II 40" x 30" acrylic on canvas, completed January 2011

Wishing it was summer time.

This is a start, Beach Party mixed media on paper (30" x 44" ) after I re-worked it in late November, 2010. I plan to get  back to it this weekend.

Bunny Guns

Trying to finish things up before next week...show goes up on Friday, February 18 at the Art Association of Harrisburg.

Sabine (Wrong Thought) II

After mucking up the first attempt at this subject last year over the winter of 2009-2010, I thought that I would give it another shot. The canvas is medium size now (as opposed to small) - we'll see if I can keep the text off (or out) of it. Giambologna's sculpture in Florence (in the Loggia dei Lanzi) is the inspiration, although the painting is a reverse image of the original sculpture.


stage 3
Sabine (Wrong Thought) II -Acrylic on Canvas 40" x 30"


stage 2


stage 1

PzKpfbII - getting there

It's getting there...rise and rise again until bunnies become lions



Here is a view of the still-life and an earlier drawing.

trial and error

moving on with some color and space issues.



So far there has been a lot of trial and error with this picture
and I suppose that there will be a lot more to come.
(48" x 40" acrylic on canvas)

Bunny und Wehrmacht

Some drawn musings…

Bunny und Wehrmacht ink and charcoal on paper, 22” x 30”

PzKpfb I (Panzerkampfbunny I) Study ink and charcoal on paper, 19” x 25”

And some painted…

First stage of PzKpfb II (Panzerkampfbunny II) 30” x 40” acrylic on canvas Second stage of PzKpfb II 30” x 40” acrylic on canvas Third stage of PzKpfb II 30” x 40” acrylic on canvas – Got tank?

Fourth stage of PzKpfb II 30” x 40” acrylic on canvas

Fifth stage of PzKpfb II 30” x 40” acrylic on canvas