Chester County Studio Tour

Just a friendly reminder that I will be exhibiting as part of the Chester County Studio tour this weekend May 19-20. I will be at the David Oleski Property alongside the beautiful pond. Come out and see artwork and enjoy scenery, food and refreshments!

Brandywine Museum

30"x40" oil/linen

 

This is a new piece I did of The Brandywine Museum in Chaddsford Pa. It is an impressive structure that I couldn't resist tackling with paint. There are many trees that I left out. They wouldn't have helped in conveying the grandeur of this place.

anticipation is making me wait

 8"x10" oil/linen birch panel

8"x10" oil/linen birch panel

Two new pieces that I dug out of my head and heart. The top one is from observation the bottom one is channeling cows yet again from the depths of my memory.

I've been busy framing for the new season that starts in Richmond VA. first week in may. The collection is coming together nicely.

Thick paint

14"x11" oil/linen birch panel

After a winter that never was it still felt like the "off season". With shows approaching I decided to lay some thick paint with the knife. A ressurection of sorts I suppose. The brushes will reappear. I just needed that feeling of knife work.

morning fog

         

so here is a new 36x48. I've attached a 2 foot section of lattice wood to a 3" wide brush. It gives me the same looseness as a 1" brush on a small (6") panel. I like loose. This piece was done mostly with this rig. I did throw in some 2" brush strokes. Been very busy organizing shows and schedules. It looks to be a promising year with some new venues being added to my schedule. Looking forward to hitting the road!

under the bridge

36"x48"oil/linen

A new big version of a smaller piece. Lots of scraping and dripping. This piece felt like rewarded work.

mooooo

11"x14" oil/linen birch panel

Happy St Patricks day from my new cow friend.

mass transit

20"x24" oil/linen

I struggled with this one. Trying to catch the feeling of commuting in the city. Feeling the rails with a city skyline approaching. Anticipation. For those that have been to Chicago, You will appreciate the idea of train travel over sitting in traffic! I digress. Will build on this theme somehow.

City in the rain

14"x11" oil/linen birch panel

Another cityscape albeit a small one. Focusing again on the energy of a city and traffic not worrying about detail. A city in the rain is a blur of light at night.

Chincoteague Virginia Paintings

8"x16" oil/linen panel

Did this one from a photo stored on the laptop from fall Chincoteague excursion. Plein air work was fun but the skeeters were eating me alive so I took some snapshots to work from.

Rainy cityscape

30"x40" oil/linen

A new cityscape in the rain. I can't emphasize my attraction to tearing down the subject. Repetition of form is apparent.

Cityscape

24"x20" oil/linen

 

Another new cityscape. I do enjoy breaking down the shapes to their bare essentials.

Bridge painting

8"x16" oil/linen panel

My fascination with bridges continues. This time I'm underneath and it's summer. We can imagine...........

Chadds Ford paint out

 11"x14" oil/linen birch panel

This was the second piece I did on day one at Chadds Ford. Thankfully it sold at the reception!

11"x14" oil/linen birch panel

 This one I did first on Friday. Friday the sun was out so I worked very hard. It's a good thing. Saturday was overcast and flat light. I had planned on painting a particular structure in sunlight "the four dogs tavern in Marshalton" but alas the light wasn't there. I made a mistake because there was very nice atmosphere and aerial perspective in the morning had I chosen a landscape!

Chadds Ford paint out 2012

I'll be participating in this juried event along with 29 other artists including Ken Backhaus. If you're near southeast PA. check it out! More info click here

Schuylkill Bridge

8"x16" oil/linen panel

 

This is a scene of a bridge down by Philly that I've been itching to paint. It could easily be Harrisburg as we have so many bridges. They are always a challenge to paint. I'm trying these panels from Raphael but they don't compare to the sourcetek panels. The Raphael panels lack tooth. At least the ones I got. Sometimes I like a smooth surface but not lately.

Break it down

30"x40" oil/linen

So here I tackle an insane amount of detail of a marine scene in Annapolis. Of course I show no detail. The whole point is to capture a time of day. To attempt and paint every boat would be ridiculous. I only try to convey the atmosphere.

Old and new

 new 8"x10" linen

A scene from Chincoteague last fall. Just painted it.

 

old rework  12x24 scene reworked from the cape (cod)

 

reworked 24 square from Chincoteague

THIEBAUD VIA MORANDI from Victor Loh on Vimeo.More good info from Wayne T

Stand back....way back

8"x16" oil/linen panel

You need some distance to view this piece. I'm happy with the light.

The abstraction process

 studio new easel

So here is an 8"x10" version of the last scene I painted. The point is to boil it down to what is important to the individual. For me its light. Yes the car can add a light element. I didn't like the car. I think the desire to simplify thing is my main drive. There is far too much complication in the world and it gives me great pleasure to represent a situation in its least complicated way.

The top photo shows my new easel in studio. So far so good. How long til I destroy yet more mixing space. I'm guessing a week............