![]() ![]() It is based not only on a specific bird, a Red Phalarope, but also on the other birds even at the Wissahickon Waterfowl Preserve that day. Such is the case with my newest moku hanga. I want to abstract the bird, especially in the interests of the entire picture, But sometimes I don’t even want a balance. Sometimes I still get a pretty good balance I think. I no longer want to sublimate building a picture to accurate bird portrayal. In doing so I sublimated my interest in building a picture. So I spent 5-10 years trying to paint and draw them somewhat realstically. To finally get to the point (!!) I also realized that I didn’t want to fudge my inability to draw birds with some degree of accuracy and realism by resorting to abstraction. And because I knew what they looked like it was easy to see how wrong my work often was! All the formal elements of abstraction could be used in realism. and art magazines in the early 90s, coupled with my practice of drawing insects that I found in the garden, eventually led me to use birds as my primary subject.Īs I did so I was surprised to find what an easy transition it was from abstraction to naturalism/realism! Except that I did have a fair idea of what birds looked like. An overall disillusionment with the art popular in galleries. One of my main concerns was making the picture ‘hang together,’ or as Matisse said to have every inch of the surface contribute something to the overall work.Īs my work veered toward abstraction that seemed organic and seemed to reference the natural world in some way I also started considering those references when I built my pictures. During my many years as an abstract artist that remained true. In my many years as an artist, but particularly in my early years, including all the time I was studying art in college, my art was about building pictures, not portraying something. I never did find it but I did run across one on ‘building a picture.’ It touches on the same subject. 9x12 inches.Įarlier today I was looking through some of my earliest blog posts trying to find one in which I talked about the problem of making a painting that had a bird as the subject. Red Phalarope at Wissahickon Waterfowl Preserve. ![]()
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