the latest cardboard circle

6 x 6 gessoboard - tiny scape #?

12 x 12 gessoboard

upside

remembering that Spring canopy (12 x 12)

Inlet, reframed

Frigid Leisure

Listless (dark shot)

Encampment

Listless

prone - 24 x 12

Allens Ave

protected - 24 x 12, $400 unframed

Prevailing Wind

since changed...

in progress - darker photo

Outer Sanctum (another shot)

She Says Good Morning

Way Up North

Leftover Landscape

From 3 or 4 years ago (when I had a proper studio)

Some thoughts that have occurred to me while painting:

1. I almost always get something done when I go to the studio.
2. When I’m painting I don’t consciously think about influences.
3. I always listen to music while I paint and it probably influences what I do.
4. Some of the best stuff happens quickly and sometimes the first gestural take is all that it should be, and it’s time to stop. Other times I “work it.”
5. I know I’ve done something good when I don’t care what anyone else might think.

laissez-faire aesthetics

Per Jed Perl - at least Pop Art and "Bad" Painting of a while back were "self-consciously ironic" and the artists

"...were mocking something. They had a target. This is what has now changed. Laissez-faire aesthetics now makes a mockery of nothing. Even irony is too much of an idea." 

Well said.

backsliding

Autumn Exotics: a Stop Along the Way

see for yourself

Fallow

breaking point

in there out here

currency

a storm brews in shangri-la

All Together Now - new photo

art crap

Trends ought to be be tangential to one's tendencies, but tend to try one's turpitude.

6 x 6 black framed

new black frames

Paintings for Sale

I now have ten or so paintings for sale on Etsy - select "Art" and type in "CloseScapes" and it should take you there. In addition, all paintings at City Hall, Providence, 30 Cutler Gallery (Warren, RI) and The Cheese Plate (Warren) are also for sale. Another 6 (?) are at the Wooden Midshipman in Warren. I can be reached at 401.338.3923 and deverett2663@gmail.com.

August

Corrugated sunset circle detail

from Tiny Seascapes (6 x 6")

Kent Canopy (from a few years back)

Country Keening/Kent Lament

What's more profound
than the ominous sound
of the owl's late report,
Against the still, yet shrill,
the incessant trill
of insects in the dark?

[Cue coyote chorus.]

ahhh

The "lost" painting. Kent brook, 2009.

Smooth Ride, 2009

The Other Side of the Brook

better shot of this little panel - bugs and all

I like the repeated realization that paintings and drawings I think of as old are only from 3-4 years ago. Germination took decades, but real progress has only just begun. The sky is limitless.

Cardboard is a cool medium; I politely take what it gives me.

gone before it ever came (6 x 6 water-soluble oil - and linseed oil - on gessoboard)

6 x 6" again