Revisting Grand Lake, 18 x 24 inches, oil on linen
This is one of my favorites from the upcoming show. I've painted Grand Lake Theatre a number of times, all before my landscape painting days. I wanted to revisit the subject matter and see how seven years of studying landscape painting and effects of natural light would affect my painting now. The biggest difference for me is in the way I approach abstraction. The care-not-about-form brushwork, combined with brighter, more natural light is all a part of what I've come to recognize as significant elements that contribute to my voice, not anyone else's.
And as with the last painting I posted – thank you everyone for your GREAT ideas about the title! I'm still decideing – the hint of the narrative in this picture is very satisfying to me. I'm an illustrator at heart, I guess.
As I was working yesterday, my friend Don Hatfield popped in for a surprise visit to shoot the breeze. "I need a beer, Terry", he says. "I don't have beer, Don", I say. "Never mind. Can I borrow about $300,000?" He says. "Sure Don," I say, "that's a lot of beer." The guy is a walking entertainment. As soon as he came into the house, he sat down at my piano and started playing Baby Elephant Walk.
And as with the last painting I posted – thank you everyone for your GREAT ideas about the title! I'm still decideing – the hint of the narrative in this picture is very satisfying to me. I'm an illustrator at heart, I guess.
As I was working yesterday, my friend Don Hatfield popped in for a surprise visit to shoot the breeze. "I need a beer, Terry", he says. "I don't have beer, Don", I say. "Never mind. Can I borrow about $300,000?" He says. "Sure Don," I say, "that's a lot of beer." The guy is a walking entertainment. As soon as he came into the house, he sat down at my piano and started playing Baby Elephant Walk.
He's actually a pretty good piano player. I didn't know that about him. Too bad we didn't have beer. We had lemonade, but ranting about art over lemonade just doesn't have the same cathartic effect. But it was good fun anyway.
Oh yeah, this is completely off topic, but this summer, I'm obsessed with gazpacho, and I know I'm not the only one that always makes too much. Since I don't use a recipe (I just throw in whatever vegetables I find at the farmer's market), as I try to adjust the flavor by putting in one more tomato or a cucumber, I inevitably end up with too much. Yesterday, I had a brilliant idea about what to do with the leftover gazpacho; marinade chicken in it! It's got all the right kinds of veggies and seasonings, olive oil to coat, and vinegar as the acid. So I marinated some chicken overnight and baked it in the oven. Voila! fantastic! I get more excited about food than art sometimes. Now I'm salivating.
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Terry, I also love gazpacho, I use to drink it in Spain, in the summer ,of course. this summer in Canada didn't occur to me to make one, I steal have some time, maybe this weekend I make one. Nice painting , the one of the theater. I love the luminosity. one question, do you premix or you mix as you paint.
Don wore these clothes Tuesday at his Patris figure painting Workshop...he must have really stunk...;v)
nice painting
Thanks for the gazpacho idea and in return, one of the treats in our house is when we have leftover tomatillo salsa(ala Rick Bayless)on Fri night and my husband turns it into tomatillo scrambled eggs on Sat morn. Unbelievable! Looking forward to my book.
Lovely painting Terry! You always seem to be successful with your experiments, be it art or be it cooking, which is an art too, isnt it? :)
Jesus, I don't premix any colors, as I don't know what colors I'm using. Also, mixing a little bit at a time forces me to use subtle (and not so subtle) variations to cover a large area.
Today, I'm making watermelon gazpacho!
Hey Frank~ Don smelled just fine, LOL 85% of what I own is black t-shirts and blue jeans. Maybe Don's got multiples of his favorites too.
He stopped by because he was meeting with Susan (Sarback) about teaching a class at her school, which is a couple of blocks away from where I live. Sounds like he might be doing it soon~
Tracey, the book should be arriving today or tomorrow - it went out Thursday afternoon.
...and I'm going to try that tomatillo scrambled eggs!
Thanks Vinayak, but I have to tell you, I actually, I rarely succeed with my experiments. You just don't get to read about the failures because they're not interesting... unless they're spectacular failures, then I talk about it with relish.
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