I’m finishing a new small painting that is packed with emotion. I’m sure I will be asked, more than once 🙂 — “What does it mean?”
Does it matter?
I know what this painting means to me. In truth, it has multiple meanings — but I don’t think they should matter to the viewer.
What do you see in this painting? How does it make you feel. That’s what matters!
Saint Agony and the Goddesses of Scorched Earth
My latest painting: Fruit Loops, acrylic paint and synthetic clay on 24″ x 20″ gallery wrapped canvas — currently hanging at Artist’s Group Gallery, Linwood Avenue, Buffalo – 25th Regional Artists Exhibition exhibit with WNY Artists Group – through November 11th.
…with a few work in progress shots
Fruit Loops: 24″ x 20″ – acrylic paint nd synthetic clay on Gallery wrapped canvas
Beginning sketch
Laying in color
Trying to create a likeness to a face I am all too familiar with
Getting there….
Adding the fruit loops. And no, they are NOT edible!
Someone at the Allentown Art Festival asked me why Buffalo is called the Queen City. I had to admit that I had no idea — so I did little research.
Way back in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s Buffalo was the largest and most prosperous city on the Great Lakes — so we became the Queen City. While Buffalo has seen more than it’s share of struggles over the past century we are making a proud come back. And once again we will be proving ourself to be, in fact, the Queen City — although anyone from here has always known that there was a lot of good to be had here, even if our crown needed polishing.
This is one of my latest Buffalo paintings: Queen City Beer. It’s 18″ (H) x 24″ (w)
New Work: Cat Lady Wine Bar, 16″ (w), 12″ (h), acrylic paint on gallery wrapped canvas with hand sculpted details.
