Donated Green Mountain

Green Mountain

about 19x19

work on paper

donated to Albany Center gallery for auction 

during Gala celebrating 40 years of art. 

Powdered Snow

A few years ago, I took a little Winter trip in Vermont.  It hadn't snowed much and the effect was of  a dusting of powder.  I painted these two little landscapes when I came back home.  (each: 12x12.  acrylic on board.)

Bridge

 

Bridge.

mixed media.

I've always liked the symbol of the bridge.  Here, between 2 very different worlds. 

Tang Museum

Sunday, September 21.  Saratoga Springs.  Gorgeous day.  Visit to the Tang Museum.  

My favorite piece will not look like much in the picture.  It includes motion and sounds so you really have to be there.  But here is the bench you can sit on:  

                     

Here is what you see:  a plastic pool.  On the water many bowls and glasses in tones of white and blue are floating and being propelled by a gentle currant (from a small engine.)  

      

As the bowls gently dance around the pool, they hit each other and create a musical landscape of clinging sounds.  At the same time, coming from the loud speaker is a composition by David Lang (fabulous contemporary composer.)  The whole experience is magical.  

My favorite wall piece:

   

And a detail:   

   

 I enjoyed this too.  Elegant:

  

And this.  Swirly:

  

Going upstairs, a fantastic collection of pieces that recalled the magic of geodes:

 

Anyone remembering some of my drawing-a-day efforts will understand my appreciation of these towers/columns:  

   

And speaking of tall things, this crazy cartoon-like sculpture bade us goodbye:

  

Plus a few Saratoga sightings:

  

From a Few Years Back

 

The Green Curtain.  5x5.  gouache on board.

The Water Hole.  5x5.  gouache on board.

I was lucky to meet today the owner of 2  little pieces I donated to the Center Gallery a few years ago.  (2004?)  I was very fond of these little gouaches and felt sorry to have forgotten to scan them for my records.  Lucy was gracious enough to lend them to me for that purpose.  Here they are. 

Later Work

 

In later years, Mrs Aplux embroidery work often took an abstract feel, mostly inspired by nature's beautiful shapes.  

Fantasy Castle

 

Back to the old sketchbook for tonight.  Need to work on an editor's request for Monday.  Back to Mrs. Aplux tomorrow. 

Panel Play

 

Pure whimsy.  With brush and brown ink.  

A Machine?

 

Although fond of this drawing, find hard to give it a title.  Machine?  Lock? Bridge?  Bagel Cutter?

Buildings

 

Out of order for almost a week due to flu.  Probably caught last week during trip to city.  Well enough to start posting again.  Not much else.  Here is a city scape. 

Menhir or Dolmen

 

What are we looking at:  a Menhir (Obelix' stubborn opinion)  or a Dolmen (Asterix' point of view)? 

Funky Plant

 

In those days of imaginary plants, I was really enjoying playing with the inside of one main shape.   Below is one of my more elaborate drawings from that time:

8 plants

 

One of the very early drawings from my Funky Plants period.  I did tons of elaborate pen and ink drawings along these lines.  And a few paintings too.  Here is one I like:

Paths

 

I find it difficult to name abstract pieces.  I don't have a clue during execution.  Pieces get named afterward.  A detail will trigger a title, or a general movement.  This one looks to me like Paths, a straight one and some curly ones. 

Mountain

 

Decidedly entering the more abstract portion of my notebook.  This mountain-like shape appeared over and over in drawings and paintings later on.  For example below:  Green Mountain.  

Bang-on-a-Can

 

At Bang-on-a-Can marathon at MassMoca in July 2005, I let my pencil run on the paper during a piece.  

Catching up

Difficulties with Blogger made me post on FB but not here.  Time to catch up with the next few images from my old notebook.

On Friday, I posted this sketch.  Done from a sculpture a few years ago at Mass Moca.  I remember a series of very realistic tigers studded with arrows.  It was quite impressive.   

Monday, I posted this early abstraction.  2 Spirals.  I went through a period of spirals and still enjoy looking at them.  Here is below a drawing I did from that sketch, in oil pastels:

Tuesday was the turn of this page:

It shows an early effort at incorporating comics and children's books.  A potential page for Mothers Can't Get Sick were I do do it again.  

And earlier tonight, I posted this sketch of a beautiful statue in Paris and sketched quickly later on from memory:  

Thanks to Google I was able to find that it is by sculptor Baltasar Lobo:

Absolutely no continuity in these images.  I am posting chronologically and they do happen in that order in the notebook.  

submission to ACG

 

Last week, I dropped my submission to Albany Center Gallery for their general call for art.   I've done that many times with no success.   I submitted an installation idea, using my morning meditation drawings from last year.  I call it Meditation in Pen and Ink (or Long Thing for short.) 

The Black Forest at the Albany Institute

I am quite thrilled to have a painting exposed beautifully at the Albany Institute of History and Art. It is among 50 paintings by 50 artists and will be part of the fund-raising silent auction during the upcoming gala. The show is called: Tomorrow's Masters Today. Ten artists were selected as the "Master Class". Not me but not complaining.

flowers by the window

collage
7.5x5.5

busy with all kinds of things and people but felt like posting and sharing this one.