I don’t know what else to do with this bottle painting on Yupo. I wasn’t going to put any verbiage on the bottles but it needed them. I don’t know if it’s done but I’m keeping an open mind about that.
I finished the clock tower at the lakefront. It’s on 140# rough but I’m going to try a much looser version on Yupo.
Touched up this trading card view of sunset on a Michigan lake.
About 15 years ago I was painting some bottles as part of my boffo Ten Cat Show, and I had the same problem with the about ten bottles with empty labels. I thought and thought and in the end I painted a cat on every one. The class, and I think I specifically remember you, were, um, unimpressed. But I don't have it anymore, could have been bought, could have been lost, but either way it is no longer jamming the plastic shelving in my bedroom. So I considered it a success.
ReplyDeleteYour buildings need a touch of Burchfield.
That is no sunset, that is a burger in one of those fancy dance joints where they shove the stuff between too teeny buns.
If I could paint like Burchfield you’d never see me again. But I’ll try in the next version.
ReplyDeleteYou've done just enough on the labels—you know what they are but you haven't devolved into a magazine ad. Looks great. I love when you do the same thing on different supports. The styles are so different. I would love to see the clocktower on Yupo.
ReplyDeleteThink about values. Your first two paintings are all midtones. They both need the drama of your sunset. Some darkest darks….
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