Summer #1 2011

The Professor is teaching painting the first summer session. The session ends this week and he will be in his studio full time.

The Professor is not de-constructing - he is re-constructing. He tore old rejected work into strips and dotted them. Lots of dots while encouraging his class to play. They do so while learning to paint.

Lots of Dots...from 8:30 until 3.

Keeping time to the music.

Then you re-construct and re-work

The Professor uses Gel Medium to attach the pieces to a canvas backing

and then fills in the blanks with more dotted fragments.

Here are two re-constructs placed on top of a painting from a year ago for reviewing. The next step is to make them sing.

Today Bill C. helped him rehang part of the studio.

Outside his studio the Professor has his own gallery wall. They hung this Big Bend picture from his realist years next to a new landscape. He enjoys confusing the viewer.

At the end of the gallery hall they hung the Coliseum in Rome.

Here is how not to move a painting. Since he has down sized autos it is being moved on top of a car. This or rent a van.

He chose a car. This is not a good idea.

An open studio is a good idea. 

The Professor is not only dotting. Mary Margaret gave him some imitation tapestries from  Italy in the 70's to which he adding his own images.

Carnival in Venice

Apparition

Intrusion

Desirous Objects

Maybe clever, maybe cute...but Sooooo?

Banner #1

After all that dotting it is a release to paint an image.

Succulant #1

Succulant #3

Studio with Painter's Apron #4: The Music Lession

Development

The wall at Mary Margaret's; a work always in progress.

As long as the Professor can work, the rejections mean nothing.

The second part of the summer begins.

What was the Professor thinking?

The Professor submitted three paintings to an open show at the Arts Alliance of Clear Lake. He read about it on line and said why not? It is exposure. The experience was sociologically interesting, not to be repeated. He got them accepted and he took his family there to the opening. He did not win.

The usual art crowd

The winner ...a  nicely done watercolor

The curator of the show did him no favor in placing his paintings: examples of how to destroy an image.

What was she thinking?

Even Tavo wondered.

The Professor's Waterfall next to plastic florals and a red head.

The Professor's family

Chyrissa and the Professor discuss the program.

Maybe he will get into the coming Lawndale show.

Back in the studio new tables add to the ambience. 

In the studio the work goes on undaunted. 

Painter's Apron 4 and a Santa Fe landscape of a few years ago.

In Spain 24x24 acrylic collage

Carnival in Venice 30x24 acrylic collage

Focus 29x20 acrylic collage

Zones 29x20

Blast, Love Story and Waiting 24x12 acrylic collage

A work from long ago by Don Redman called 1917 and the Big Rock Candy Mountain in the corridor

outside the studio.

The Professor cannot explain why, he can only do.

He is back at Lonestar College-Tomball teaching  for the first summer school session. 

After 4 weeks

The Professor likes his studio. The space is large, the light perfect and he has been working steadily for a month.

This was on May 8. 

The concrete floors had to be covered with rugs or matts he bought at a Feed Store. They are used in horse stalls. He hurt the ball of his foot the first week and has limped around since. Bone doctor this week to know if he should do something other than inner soles.

Jubilant Reality 24x30. 

The professor started this at school and finished it in the studio.

05-22-2011 work in progress

Here are watercolors that were started in March/April and are now done.

Dreamery 18x24

Island Jam 14x20

Cenote 18x24

Mystery Island 14x20

This is the Third Painter's Apron.

Painter's Apron 3  48x48

Mary Margaret told the Professor that Charles Schoree said that if you combined two images what often happens is a third much more interesting image. He has a number of small paintings from his realist years for which he now finds use. 

Cry Baby 20x10

Growth 24x12

Waiting 24x12

Blast 24x12

Today 05-29-1011

Unexplored Territory 48x31

Painter's Apron 4  48x48

and assorted others