Alias Arts

Been very busy lately – and couple of projects that I had to handle make it really hard to focus on painting, but one project may be a gallery space to handle artists – it’s  still young idea and I can’t talk about it, yet, but I’m hopeful.

Anyway – it’s strange how in my social [...]

Sad when someone as talented as Melendez, who wanted to be a court painter in Spain, during the 1770’s, only not to succeed, and die in poverty.
Sad.

Just thinking about Jean Baptiste Greuze “Aegina Visted by Jupiter” here at Metropolitan.
Aegina is unfinished, and I like it that way, better.
How much good painting and natural feeling gets covered up by trying to paint to please someone else, like the French Royal Academy.
And how lucky we are, Greuze never finished this painting.
What [...]

Reality follows concept – and the concept of the following videos I took today came from two friends, one that came up with the idea, and another, that took the videos of me, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Cecilia Pineda Feret came up with the idea of me talking about something I’m passionate about – [...]

I brought “A Start” much further this afternoon and evening by working over my acrylic underpainting with oil pastels.

I still don’t think it’s done yet.   Yesterday, “A Start” was begun (see below)

In a way, some of the contrast in the yesterday’s version was lost today – in the next and hopefully, final session, next week, [...]

I don’t think this painting is done – but it’s a Start – and it’s on canvas.  I’ll work on it more tomorrow, with oil pastels, too.

Don’t know why but I named this work after LA, maybe because, for some reason, I was thinking of Los Angeles when I worked on this study.

I also reworked the Butterfly painting one more time, calling it Butterfly 3 this time

My sense, while working today, was there are only two things that matter in Artwork [...]

I painted all afternoon and well into this evening. Did a life study using my iPhone and worked on a large oil pastel I call “Butterfly”. I think my Buterfly is not done yet.

This is an abstract I have been working on for the last week or two, on my iPhone, using the Colors application.
Did something a little different here, can you guess what?

I went to Bonnard Exhibition at the Met tonight with a friend; fantastic show that I will return to many times in the next few months.
Here’d 2 photos I took. The Self Portrait reminds me of one of mine.