Edward Hooper The Long Leg 1935

The Long Leg

1935

by Edward Hopper

As I am in a lighthouse mode for painting I though I would show a painting by Edward Hooper that feature a lighthouse with the added bonus of a yatch, as with many of Hooper’s paintings it seems to have two things going on in this case the yatch at sea as well as the lighthouse on the land and these are the main focal points. The lighthouse helps those at sea at night or bad weather, so the yatch and lighthouse seperate but need each other, there is always this sense of space in many of Hooper’s paintings

 

 

 

Lavider Mist No1 1950 Pollock, Jackson-What do you see?

This sort of painting can mean many things to different people,Pollock painted this during the height of the cold war and all that around him in America during the early 1950’s when it was not easy to be a Artist….

I like to think of this paiuting as a prelude to the internet, which though not invented then , to my mind shows the intereconnection of everthing and everybody on different levels.

Asl someone else what they se in this painting and they will come up with a  another answer

what do you see?.

Artist Contemplating

Looking out to sea the artist contemplates the next move, soaks in the atmosphere of the sea as it crashes against the rocks down below.Squinting her eyes to look at something distant that has caught her eye,the image burns on the minds eye for a while simmers and stored away for future reference.
The sound of the sea and the seagulls and the smell of the sea, the moment is now and here and forever.

Winter’s Dawn

Both paintings are 6inches x4inches and Acrylic.

We are moving nearer winter when the days sometimes never really seem to get light, a time of lots of sunrise ans sunsets as the days are shorter.

Playing around with the colour red here as well, red is a strong coloure so needs dilluting a bit browns go well representing the earth

Triptych

This is just seeing if I can do it as the idea has been in the back of my mind for some time.I cannot for the life of me remember the correct name for Three paintings together perhaps someone can enlighten me!
The power of Twitter strikes again! have the name I was looking for thanks to twitter friends

Sir Terry Frost R.A (1915-2003)

Here aare some brilliant images by Terry Frost.Chosen at random because I just enjoyed the colour,connections with Newlyn and Cornwall

Colour Rhythm Newlyn
Lithograph, 1997

 

 

Frisky (detail) Sir Terry Frost 2003

 

 

Sir Terry Frost screenprint “Malaga Blue and Orange”

 

 

A Journey Into Abstract

The first of a series I think,this somewhat of a new departure a journey into abstraction. it still wants to be landscape but…could be a form of mind map or even thought forms something known but unseen,sensed.

It wants to be something but it is not…..

I feel there is more to happen with this new series so stay tuned!

The Wanderer

Standing on a Rock

absorbing the landscape before the eye

Master of all

Owner of none

Nature Surpreme

The person on the rock reminds me of the  famous painting by Casper David Friedrich (1774-1840)

Still in drawing mode!

The Energy Of Drawing

Drawing has a different energy to that of painting, perhaps obvious but worth stating here. There is a more direct connection between the hand and the mind for one thing and can be a lot harder to do. You do not have to be a good drawer to be a painter or good painter to be able to draw. The two energies can be quite seperate. Maybe if you want accuracy in your paintings say as a watercoloulerst then maybe.,  the two energies combine over the use of perspective etc but then that is another energy as well. Creativity is made up of so many different Energies all waiting to form a piece of Art, the coming together at the one time called now

By The Light Of The Moon

By the light of the moon

the old tree stands

old and worn

twisted shape

still hope

standing there

by the light of the Moon