Hope you are just fine and that spring is finding its way into your life. I’ve added new portrait paintings under the PAINTINGS tab . . . Enjoy, comment, whatev. xoxoxo LK
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Category self portrait
March 2021
Poet Margaret Randall, was a student of Elaine de Kooning’s at the University of New Mexico. She recalls Ms. de Kooning encouraging her students: “Think big, paint big, be wedded to nothing, neither landscape, nor abstraction, paint nor stone.” And “abandon long practiced becomes skill.”
I have some new things to look at under “drawings” and “painting.” Abandon was practiced. Thanks for looking. Get vaccinated if you can.
February 2021
Twenty new things to look at! Hope you’re doing well – spring is coming.
experiment
So, this was the challenge I set up for myself. Start with a warm-up. Warm up is using graphite on 24×36” paper. Warm up is drawing with my whole arms (a graphite stick in each hand) making as many different kinds of marks as I can, but without a plan. Just moving.
Part two: using an eraser only, pull out a self-portrait. No adding any more lines. And do it ten times.
Part three: after 10 times I allowed myself to add in more lines. Still thinking about it. hmmmmm.
next ones
stay tuned
I am going to do at least nine more of these! Excited by a new idea.
"Not knowing how to do it is part of knowing how to do it." - Leon Kossoff 