Today was a day of dreary grey clouds and with the temperature around 52F all day, it was winter. I used colors right out of the can to finish a painting that had many unconscious references to Schoodic Point and Frenchman Bay. I needed color in the worst way to fight the demons of greyness. …
The camera does something I cannot do because it does not think. It is a tool that has become indispensable to my work Like charcoal, brushes, paint, palette knife, straight edges, Which enable me to find my world of images and ideas in thought Before it emerges on canvas, plexiglass, paper, or wood. The camera …
Watch here Peter shows his technique in which visual memory and imagination combine in interpreting Maine’s Schoodic/Acadia National Park onto a simple piece of wood.
The artist attempts to formulate how the imagination and intellect work together in art, by using recent iPhone (digital) photography of antique statues in the studio garden.
The artist explains his latest board and shim paintings in terms of what they mean and how they may delight those who love the sea in its infinite aspects.
The premise of this post is that a picture (image) is worth a thousand words. Maybe that’s why Mona Lisa never had a stage career?
