February Indoor studio painting sessions

 

Painted slats composed and mirrored studies

Outdoor setting updated

Updated setting with #colors #tiers and #laminations and #strata on Saturday morning #painting #dougwittnebel 

Working again on stretched canvas

Some weekend open times have allowed me to test and try the canvas once again, with a series of layered and striped attitudes in colors of day and night...

Visions and introspections and palpable spaces...

Just a simple text posting, inspirational writing from a fellow artist, Christopher Benson.

"...What inspired me at the time was how antithetical to illustration Diebenkorn’s pictures were. His innovation of blending abstraction and figuration in the most mundane domestic subjects is so well known, and now so clichéd as a stylistic device, that it’s easy to overlook how dramatically that sort of approach changed the way we look at and experience paintings. 
This was a revolution that the Impressionists had started a century earlier, but Diebenkorn’s later efinement of many of their same principles — by then also affected by the pure expressive abstraction of New York school painters like deKooning — is an outstanding realization of the potential of this  kind of art. His images, taken from clearly regional Californian places, transcend the constraints of the local (and any specific emotions he might have felt about his own locale) and record a vision both introspective and universal.
His earnestly un-romanticized, yet aesthetically beautiful surfaces and compositions describe one narrow world with great specificity while maintaining a remoteness and neutrality onto which anybody anywhere might plausibly project their own experience. Perhaps that was not his intention, but it is nonetheless what he accomplished in his figurative work..."

...earlier landscape view painting layered sereis, set into moss garden mid springtime...

a painting of a cake...

A selection of stages in the process of creating a cake painting, with the artrage app on the ipad, a delicious combination of frosting and layers and textures and colors...

“Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg before it is broken.”

-M.F.K. Fisher

Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen. (Wayne Thiebaud)

"You may feel that you have eaten too much...But this pastry is like
feathers - it is like snow. It is in fact good for you, a digestive!"

M.F.K. Fisher (The Art of Eating)