I stole the background for this one from one of The Group of Seven. He’s dead, so he won’t mind.
This is a drawing I’ve been working on for a large canvas. It’s got a long way to go before it doesn’t just look like an illustration for a can of organic tomatoes.
This one’s an experiment with Watteau’s glazing techniques. Oily, oily, oily.
I enjoy working on this one.
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January 11, 2013 at 10:59 pm
beeskep
Love them.
January 12, 2013 at 7:19 am
coozledad
Thanks, Barb.
I’ll get clearer pictures of them when they’re done, and the sun’s out again.
January 13, 2013 at 10:36 pm
Minnie
I was just wondering this weekend if you were arting and how your crow is faring, and, lo . . . .
January 14, 2013 at 4:27 am
coozledad
Coco is doing well. The wild crows are coming to visit him/her in greater numbers. My wife called me to the kitchen window one day to watch Coco sharing the perch (an old tobacco stick run through the chain link wall of the kennel) with an outside crow. They were clicking, cooing and walloping about something. It might have been a discussion about the slab of butter I’d just given Coco, or our bastard jug-eared shit-mustached neighbor who just pulped a sixty acre stand of hardwoods that hadn’t been cut since the 1930′s or 40′s.
I would like very much for our crow to be the medium through which the crows get the idea to gouge that fucker’s lights out, but that’s human thinking for you. Crows probably spend more time thinking about what a shame it is they closed the hot dog place in Semora.
March 18, 2013 at 3:12 pm
Rosie West
Terrific painting and drawing. I wouldn’t have known who The Group of Seven were if I hadn’t been to a stunning exhibition of their work about a year ago at The Dulwich Picture Gallery in South London. Was this a Tom Tompson background? He had to be my favourite.
March 18, 2013 at 4:19 pm
coozledad
I’m a fan of Tompson’s too. It’s fortunate he discovered his voice early, since he died young.
I had to look this guy up, because I just snagged the picture off a google search for “group of seven”. In some ways it’s got the feel of a Song dynasty painting. It’s A.Y. Jackson:
http://fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca/2010/05/29/frye-on-the-group-of-seven/
I have to apologize for giving you some misinformation the other day about Thomas Cole. Seems I confused him with Martin Johnson Heade- I can’t keep my 19th century naturalists in order. Cole died before Mark Twain even started smoking.