Sickness has been being passed back and forth around the Lehman household the last few day. I am thinking the homes affected by the water line break a few days ago may have been a little wider than previously thought. I can’t verify it, but it seems to correlate with the onset of this stomach ailment that we all ended up having at the same time.
I’ve been looking at doing more oil paintings in the near future and getting some more representational artwork out into the open. It is absolutely the opposite of the abstract stuff that I’ve produced over the last four years. In particular, I am being drawn back to landscape painting and classical still life paintings.
I think this has been a revelation that has happened in two parts.
I’ve been working on a new piece called “Basic Principles & History”. I am still not sure that it is finished yet. This is a mixed media painting utilizing collage, fumage, acrylic, ink and other paper staining processes. You can’t quite see it here but there is also a crackle glaze over much of the image as well. It is 30″ x 40″ on canvas.
I am still debating if the painting is finished or not.
Back in my days writing the art blog “Artist Hideout” with b5media, I did a lot of featuring of other artists. Today, I get to be in the other shoes of someone who is being featured on someone else’s blog. It’s a nice change.
My “Reach for Light” iphone (actually I use an ipod touch) drawing was featured at Just iPhone Art today. It’s weird, though since I only started doing iphone art using the iphone app, “brushes” just about two weeks ago. To be featured among some of the other amazing artists there is pretty cool. If anything, I have been using “brushes” as a means to play with conceptual pieces without really dragging around my laptop and wacom tablet. Besides, it fits better in my pocket and I don’t take up four seats at the coffee shop with just an ipod either.
Thanks for the feature Patrick.
This didn’t start out as a strawberry, but it became one… Maybe it’s an inner longing for a fruit of some kind. ooh, we have mandarin oranges….
Runs off to the fridge.
I will begin printing some of these soon. I think the size will eventually be either business card size or aceo. Iam leaning toward buisness card size. Exploring working on such an intuitive interface is a unique experience.
I only have been to the sea once. It was in Maine. One of those rocky coasts with a lighthouse and it was beautiful. It is a memory only tainted with the smell of dead fish rotting on the rocks and the cold climate. Either way, enjoy this little painting.
This is my second digital drawing using ‘brushes’ app for iPod touch. Getting better. 
I drew this for my wonderful wife. Her favorite tree is a pine tree. As of today we have been together for five years since we first started dating.
I decided to get back into painting regularly. Tonight I painted a new watercolor peice called Tiger Lilly. I am starting a series of flowers. Not sure how many I’ll eventually do, but this is the first.
If you want to buy it, it’s available here.
I don’t have too much to show yet on this painting. Mainly, the only thing I have down on the canvas right now is the background. As you can see in the following images, there are two layers thus far. This is a bit unlike many of my paintings that it is going to be so heavily layered with backgrounds and foreground. So far, I have been working with Acrylics and a 1″ brush.
The closer to the foreground I get, the brush will decrease in size and the thickness of the paint will become more pronounced. I don’t want to give away the final painting yet, but this will not be an abstract like I was originally planning. I need to bring in some income with this one, so it is something new that I have been researching. I see this painting enfolding in my head unlike any painting I’ve ever done before. I am really excited about it. I know it doesn’t look like too much yet, but I’ll keep updating with each layer so you can see the progress.
The white portion at the bottom in layer 1 was more texture than actual color to make the thinner paints near the bottom equal the same depth and texture as the thicker black and reds at the top. This is why I used two layers for this part of the background.
Layer 1
Layer 2
