Deconstructing Kandinsky series

Deconstructing Kandinsky, drawing  30 x 40" graphite and gouache

Stormy Seas (after Aivazovsky)

Blow Up 1

Blow Up 2

Blow Up 3

Blow Up 4

Kandinsky's Buttons

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Boyne/Trim Series

Trim 1

Trim 2

Boyne/Trim

Blow Up 1

Blow Up 2

Blow Up 3

Blow Up 4

This series, entitled Deconstructing Kandinsky, is comprised of a rendition of Kandinsky's Composition VIII, but with color only in the background. The "Blow Ups" are parts of the painting made larger on gridded paper. The other parts of the series also refer to Kandinsky's painting. Shown here in a gallery.

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All the images in the Boyne/Trim series are about the Boyne River, which runs through Trim, Ireland. This large drawing was the first in the Boyne/Trim Series

Trim, pencil and gouache, 30 x 39". SOLD

Trim 2. oil on aluminum, 22 x 22" This is a slightly different point of view from the first drawing.

Trim 2. oil on aluminum, 22 x 22" This is a slightly different point of view from the first drawing.

Boyne/Trim, pencil and gouache, 31 x 39." Below are watercolor Blow Ups of parts of this drawing, each one watercolor on gridded paper, as if pixillated, 6 3/4 x 10."

 
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Fish Painting Series

Sunfish, watercolor, 6 1/2 x 10 1/4." This was the first of this series. Then I used a printout of it as a part of still lives. SOLD

Fish Painting Painting, oil on zinc, 14 x 14," SOLD

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Fish Painting Painting II, oil on zinc, 14 x 14"

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Fish Painting Drawing, 32 x 19," graphite and watercolor

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Rooster on the Farm Series

I started this series when I found a little English pitcher with a rooster on it. Making a realistic representation of a stylized image interested me. The context of a particular image interests me a lot also.

Pitcher on the Farm, 29 x 20." oil on zinc. SOLD

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The Farm, oil on zinc, 20 1/2 x 27," SOLD

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Rooster, graphite, colored pencil, and watercolor, 42 x 35," SOLD

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Rooster on the Farm, watercolor and graphite, 12 x 16 1/2" SOLD

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Activation Series

Activation of Blue.

This series is one I started during Covid. Only the blue in the objects I used for this still live is activated. All the other colors are repressed and drawn in graphite.

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Blue

There is a little stylized drawing in Activation of Blue, above. This is another version, much larger of the same landscape.

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Activation of Green, 20 x 28 1/2,” watercolor, gouache, graphite.

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Bird Blow Up, 8 1/4 x 6,” watercolor of the ceramic bird in both Activation drawings.

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Green, oil on aluminum, 20 x 14”

You will notice that the image is also in the drawing Activation of Green, above, is both a little insert and also forms the entire background.

Parsimony Series, each, Framed, 17 xx 13 1/2

Parsimony Series, watercolor on two sizes of grids. Each, framed, 17 x 13.” numbered 1 - 16.

Parsimony Series

Blue Poles, oil on steel, 12 x 12"