Alias Arts

After having invested heavily in plastic as a medium for my chains, I am temporarily reverting to wood.

Lightness, malleability, relative strength and the ability to take paint: these factors figured the choice to work in this medium during cabin fe…

Subjected to the first exercise from Nicolaides ‘The Natural Way to Draw’, I drew the contours of the icicles following Nicolaides instruction:

Focus your eyes on some point – any point will do – along the contour of the model. Place the poi…

Gladiators at rest (gladiators au repos) 1928-29, oil on canvas, 157 x 198 cm.

In the late 1920th, Giorgio de Chirico was commissioned to create a series of gladiator paintings for Léonce Rosenberg, an art dealer. One of these pieces ‘gladiators au r…

The two paintings of Edward Hopper, shown here, are part of the current exhibition in the Whitney Museum of American Art: Edward Hopper and His Time. Much has been written about Hopper’s usage of light and shadow. I will point out his usage of incong…

Gladiators at rest (gladiators au repos) 1928-29, oil on canvas, 157 x 198 cm.

In the late 1920th, Giorgio de Chirico was commissioned to create a series of gladiator paintings for Léonce Rosenberg, an art dealer. One of these pieces ‘gladiators au repos’, designed for Rosenberg’s apartment in Paris, is the …

The only reality portrayed here is the shape of South Manitou island.

Having spent much of last year learning about pigments and buying various artist oils, I tried some of them here. The colors chosen here do not represent those of my grainy photograph of South Manitou taken on an …

The Tree’s Daughter

Medium: Mixed Media on Canvas

Size:95×63 cm

Painted from a small old sketch, I have limited myself to earthy tones;  raw siena, yellow ochre, browns with a base of white and black acrylics. I felt like creating something unusual and experimental. Here is the original sketch, quite an oldie…

61 x 45, oil on birch panel

Do you see sky or water?

Here is an update on the bluff picture which awaits further changes based on Karl’s critique.

You and Your Perfect Life
(playing time  5:18)
music by David Palmer / words by David Palmer (except *from Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby)

This song was inspired by the Nick Hornby novel Juliet, Naked. The story involves, among other things, an American singer/songwriter named Tucker Crowe, who mysteriously disappeared from the music …

Water reflections? Has to be Jay.

This creature placidly stood by as I clicked away. I would like to tender these three images of the stately bird in the spirit of comparison, soliciting your judgments of good better and best.

Number One:

Number Two:

Or Number Three: