Art: From Flickr

I thought I'd share a couple paintings I liked on Flickr. These two are from Craig Moser and Alex Itin. Click the images for a larger view.

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Art: My Painting "Bloomdido" (2006)

This is a painting I did in July named "Bloomdido" after a Bird & Diz track from 1950 - I often listen to jazz while painting.

It is acrylic paint on a 24 by 48 inch canvas with some wood stain and a matte varnish.

"Bloomdido" is available in my Etsy store.

Click the photos for larger images on Flickr.

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Misc: Pencil Bug: Midnight

As I posted to Flickr, here are the dark pencils in my collection, from left to right (along with where I acquired them). It is tough to pick a favorite in this crowd. It depends on the situation. The top of the class would be 9, 1, and 3.

1-2: Faber Castell 9000 HB & H (gift)
3: Mirado Black Warrior #1 B (PencilThings)
4: Dixon Ticonderoga Black #2 Soft (office supply store)
5: Faber Castell Black Velvet #3 (eBay)
6: Musgrave Unigraph 1200 HB (PencilThings)
7: Mitsubishi 9800 HB (eBay)
8: J.R. Moon Gretta #2 (eBay)
9-10: Tombow Mono HB & H (Dick Blick)

The background is a painting of mine. Yes, this photo looks like I'm copying Ninth Wave - I'm sure they won't mind.

This is the third Pencil Bug post of mine. Here are one and two.

Art: Hans Hofmann

A quote from Clement Greenberg's essay on Hans Hofmann:

Yet the very fact that Cathedral teeters on the edge of a kind of art like Mondrian's is one of the things that give it its climactic quality as a work that sums up the realizations of a whole epoch of modernist art, and at the same time points toward the next one-in which geometrical and painterly drawing will become indistinguishable because they will have cancelled each other out under the pressures of color.

You may view more of Hofman's work on HansHofmann.net or read more from Clement Greenberg.

[via the children's book Colors ]

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Art: Omar Chacon

Art MoCo describes the work of Omar Chacon:

Omar Chacon's paintings are deceptive and can be considered sculptural in that he builds them up using pieces of paint as the compositional elements. What appear to be organized brushstrokes of stripes of paint are carefully applied decals of dried paint from previously conceived brushstrokes or drips.

From the Pelican Press:

This work is fresh and original. Chacon is obsessed with color, segments, rows and grids – and yet he breaks free of all of these with each composition. He seems to have absorbed lessons from Klimt and Mondrian, respectively, in his jewel-like colors and his rectangular forms that pulse across the surface. Klee comes to mind too, in his interest in variations.

View more of Omar Chacon's work on Lincart.com.

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