Montana Elevator #28

 
Painted all the month of November, these are a few of the new pieces. Have many more ideas for "car parts" and "montana elevators". I continue to investigate the possibilities of the media(house Paint), but even though I have bought 33 new canvases, I can't yet bring myself to use them in the carefree way I do illustration board.

Montana Elevator #15

 

A small (14"x22") piece with the ambition to say that "a couple of small ivory dabs could be elevators from a long way away". Is place and space as important as implied subject? Should there be "coffee rings" as in the other paintings? house paint thrown, brushed, dripped and rubbed on illustration board.

Montana Elevator #18

 

Really high horizon. In Japan I learned that what you leave basicly alone is as important as what you work on intently. I tried to show that here in the "empty" space in the foreground, leading up to the elevator in the distance. house paint applies by brush, stick, and drip to illustration board.

Montana Elevator #25

 
This changes everything, I have for a LONG time used my warm color scheme as the bases of my paintings. This piece uses Basalt and Ivory in a "monochromatic" fashion. A mood? A trick? I don't really know yet. house paint, 22"x28"

Montana Elevator #24

 
A high horizon and "sharp" brush marks creates what I think is an almost "other worldly" feeling. house paint, 22"x28"

Montana Elevator #21

 

This is a small piece (12 x 16) that I hope reduces the image almost to color-field, while retaining the illusion of great mass and size. house paint again.

Montana Elevator # 17

 
house paint on illustration board. Trying real hard to create a sense of space (depth) wo using diagonals, ie. making little stuff real big.

Montana Elevator #16

 
house paint on illustration board 22" x 28" I continue to "work" the surface while trying to keep "fresh"(no re-dues).

Car Parts #7

 
Trying to "get in closer" house paint on illustration board 22" x 28"

Car Parts #5

 
house paint on illustration boards 22" x 28"

Car Parts #1

 
This is the start of another (I hope) long series of paintings. In this group, I will be focusing in, cropping, on an odd selection of interesting automobiles. I believe that the part should be as interesting as the whole. As has become my method, I will work in house paint on a variety of surfaces (I have ordered 35 frameless canvases) feeling free to "play" with proportion and color. In a very formalist way, I hope to create interesting designs and objects that may stand independant of the image. Walking a fine line between abstraction and realism, taking from my experience with art in Japan.

Car parts #3

 
acrylic latex on illustration board, 22" x 28"

Car Parts #2

 
22" x 28" illustration board painted with acrylic latex.

Car Parts #4

 
22" x 28" illustration board painted with latex acrylic

Elevator #11, Belt

 
Acrylic Latex on Illustration board 22 x 28

Scotchman Peaks Wilderness paint-out

 

These are the paintings from this weekend's trip to Hope, Idaho and the Scotchman Peak Wilderness area. The paintout , and the resulting art show are to raise money to promote the creation of this wilderness area on the Montana-Idaho border. Was a great couple of days, met some great and talanted artists, and enjoyed the solitude of painting on the "edge of the wild country" The show will be up in a gallery in Hope till after Christmas. All paintings are acrylic latex on masonite wood panel.

MONTANA ELEVATOR #9

 
Acrylic latex on recycled paper ( actually, the paper is 3' x 50' rolls used to compost in the garden with. very iffy stuff, but nice surface, How long will it last?) 24" x 36"

MONTANA ELEVATOR #10

 
Butler buildings actually, but I will call them elevators. acrylic latex on canvas 16 " x 20"

ELEVATOR #7

 
This is the production of a couple of days in the studio, working on the Montana Elevator series. I am expierimenting with many grounds, some common, some expensive to see how the paint reacts and allows itself to be worked. This piece is acrylic latex on post consumer paper. I try to capture the " larger-than-life" feel of these structures and how they appear to be as castles in the wheat fields. More will follow

ELEVATOR #6

 
Acrylic Latex on canvas , 16" x 20"

ELEVATOR #5

 
Acrylic latex on clay coat illustration board, 6 ply 22" x 28"

ELEVATOR #2

 
Acrylic latex on recycled paper 24" x 36"

ELEVATOR #3

 Acrylic latex on Tivec paper 24" x 36"

ELEVATOR #4

 
Acrylic laytex on canvas, 16" x 20"

Thompson River, summer

 
The river slows, and the the air gets heavy with the heat in late summer. House paint on illustration board, 12" x 18".