A Recidivist Painter of Nudes

Beautiful pose.  Beautiful model.  Sometimes you just have to back off the abstract stuff and paint a figure.  This one was done from a drawing from the Saturday morning figure group that is now held in the drawing studio at the Springhill College Art Dept.  The colors, particularly the reds,  toned down a bit when loaded onto the blog.

A. A.    32 x 28 inches  Oil on Canvas

There are a couple of unusual shows coming up next year called "Nude Night" that actually last 3 nights.  One is in Orlando and the other in Tampa.  I've been thinking of entering this painting and another one in the Tampa show.  These shows are kinda along the lines of Blue Velvet Studio's "Nudes in November" only much larger and more rebald   Haven't decided whether to go to the expense or not.  nude night in Orlando is a video they're putting out to promote the shows.  see what I mean.  Not sure about the art but Orlando IS where Micky lives.

Sailing, Sailing over the Bounding Main or whatever.

Apparently there is a traveling show of maritime art coming the the Mobile Museum of Art early in 2012.  To get everyone in the mood they decided to have a juried exhibition of 'maritime' paintings by local artists.  Ben Shamback, a very good, kinda super realistic painter of still life who is a professor at USA art dept was lined up to be the juror.   Now rest assured I am not a maritime painter but last spring I'd done 3 smallish paintings based on rainbows, an old visual element of mine.  2 of them sorta evolved toward a water scene so I ended up sticking a sail shape in them and then since it was water an unrealistic reflection.  Tah dah, 2 maritime paintings.  The third one was dry land.  So even though I would not have done paintings to conform to this theme to enter the show surprise, surprise, I had 2 perfectly good maritime paintings just sitting there.  The entry fee was cool, $0.00.  So I entered.

The blue painting below was awarded 2nd "prize".  I would have given Best in Show to someone else, NOT ME.  I really dislike the idea of 1st 2nd 3rd place etc.  It is ridiculous to try to rate paintings that way.  My thoughts are to give a number of merit awards, equal if there's money involved.

There I've ridden my  white charger once again.

 Rainbow #2        22 x 22 inches   Oil on Canvas

Passing Storm (got to call it something)  ca. 34 x 36 inches  Oil on Canvas


Actually I like the other one at the top better