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Shore Birds

Shore Birds [May] 60 X 30″ Acrylic, Spray Enamel on Unprimed Canvas. Completed? May 21, 2022.

Detail below.

August 8, 21 Revisited

Rain, rain, rain. Good weather for easel painting. Revisiting a painting from last August. Acrylic on canvas. 40 X 30″

Used to go like this:

Stone Soup

“Stone Soup” 40 X 30″ acrylic, spray enamel, collage on primed canvas.

In progress? Bronze metallics completely change the ground in electric light. Strange one. Stone and onion. Diptych/not diptych. Outside in late April.

April 3, 22 – Work in Progress

66 X 36″ Acrylic, Spray Enamel on Paper, on raw canvas.

Yesterday mostly, some today. Working back into something started last Fall. Orientation was left side as bottom, May like this vertical orientation. I switch up sometimes, and usually one orientation sets best to my eye. No doubt some Joan Mitchell paintings on my mind. Hello Phthalo Blue light.

I’m adding a horizontal view:

Below is this painting in natural habitat:

A quick one and two questions:

How does Carly manage to sleep next to such a loud painting?

How did she manage to so artfully arrange the blanket to mirror the form in the painting located near her right ear, which mimics the form of her right ear?

Green-Eyed Cat, She Like Salmon in Her Bowl, second state. Added collage elements – spray enamel on paper. 30 X 40.” Acrylic, and metallic enamel paint, collage on gessoed canvas. Probably completed.

Below is the “First State” for comparison:

Green-Eyed Cat, She Likes Salmon in Her Super Bowl

30 X 40.” Acrylic, and metallic enamel paint, collage on gessoed canvas. Work in progress. A Valentine to our catpanions.

Hello Yellow, Sea Glass Blue

12 X 36″ Collage/Mixed Media on Pre-Stretched/Gessoed Canvas.

Info same as “Radiance” Post.

Radiance

Departure, slight return? 20 X 20,” January 2022. I closed down Dad and Heidi’s studio and returned home to Shady Side with some art materials, including small pre-stetched and gessoed canvas and block-printed papers. The form reminds me of some of Dad’s ( Jim Crane) artwork – less “arabesque” than typical of my “Agave” paintings. Pressed relief very Jim Crane. Color very Carey.

Closing the Jim and Heidi Crane’s studio, Treasure Island, Fla.:

The Crane’s Studio. Large canvases on the right by Marion Beckett. “Rondos” in background Jim Cranes. Barbara Thompson print in foreground.

Next up is a collage that I “finished” a few years back after moving to Shady Side. Considerably reworked December/January with block print papers from Dad and Heidi. 36 X 24″ “Memory Book”:

A Change here is using block-printed papers. My practice is to use unpigmented, pattern papers. Making exception here with print paper pre-faded in the Florida sun. Should hold up. Reminds me of an old illuminated manuscript or memory book.

Jo Fleming Contemporary – Last opportunity to see work Wed. the 22nd – 25th.

Dropping Acorns Will be on display in the Maryland Federation of Art (MFA) show opening Wed., September 22. I Discussed Dropping Acorns in my MFA Wil Talk on YouTube: https://youtu.be/rEW3OokLQm8