Well, I did two still life’s today at the Brooklyn Artists Gym - spent 7 hours painting, pretty much non stop.

One of the fellow artists I paint with, Shelton, liked this painting, and he gave me some advice about lightening up the top, so I followed it (which is why it’s great to have people to share your work with - I’m too close to my own work to see it as someone else would).

It’s nice to come in today - find plenty of plants in the studio, where there were none before, and be able to paint them.   This plant reminded me of the one I painted in After The Bath, almost 20 years ago.  I feel attached to this type of plant but I don’t know the name of it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The second still life I’m not so sure about.  There’s a lot of things I like about it , like what’s going on in the right upper corner.  I’m also aware of how little of the textures are translating in these 1.3 Mega pixel photos I’m taking with my TMobile Sidekick 3. 

I’m trying the best I can to balance the colors of the photo to get the picture to look as close as possible to the original - yet I can’t really capture many of the subtleties of my work with this kind of camera.  It’s good for a quick shot, an impression, but it’s jut not good enough to really satisfy me - because I saw more in my work that is coming though from the photo.

By the way, I saw the Brice Marden show one last time, last night at MOMA.  For me, the strongest part of the show was the beginning work and the latest work.  I have decided, after seeing the show 4 times and also going to the Brice Marden talk last Sunday, that the linear work Brice started in the early to mid 1980’s on tough the late 1990’s was not as successful (for me) as his earlier or latest work.   I could go into this more, and maybe I will in another post sometime soon.

I also met with my friends Ellen Silverman, Drew Knapp and Ken C (don’t remember how to spell his last name) at a part for Ellen on Thursday night on 13th Street and the far west side.  The Photographer, Brian Van, was there and taking pictures (small world) and I invited Drew to visit my studio and critique my work soon (I need that).  I don’t get to see Drew much, but I’ve known him since 1971 and I’ve known Ellen since the late 1980’s.  It’s nice to get together, even if it’s only once a year.

I also went to a weird feminist show last night, invited by another woman at the birthday party.  The event I went to was a MomaGina event for men, given twice a year, where a bunch of woman dress up in scantly clad dress and explain how men can treat woman (as Goddesses, I think) to get what they want.  Men were allowed to ask any question and there was some sex simulation scenes to show good touching, good kissing, good stimulation.  Naturally, this would have been more fun if I was single.  I did learn some things about what woman like.  Anyway….this is an Art Blog …right?

Yes, I’ve had a long week - and I haven’t even wrote about all of it yet!