Tom featured in Works on Paper
Just would like to say how nice it is to be featured with the drawing of Tom. Tom is in prison and would be delighted if he knew his image was up on RB. I know the inmates have access to computers but going online is probably prohibited, but who knows things may have changed. Anyway Tom if you see this, here’s to YOU and that enduring happy spirit and memorable art classes. Thanks heaps to …
What is Colour Field painting?
There seems to be a bit of confusion over what colour field painting is and so I will include here a posting from a discussion held in a Painters in Modern Times forum in support of Carson Collins which came up in relation to a colour field Challenge competition. The works in the challenge were mostly not colour field painting at all.
Helen Frankenthaler’s painting are close to what many pe…
Featured Work
Big thank you to the dynamic CURRENT ISSUES group for featuring my “Age of Oil” and some time back “Crime Scene”. It sure is a big lift when a group chooses to feature your work. The great thing about Current Issues is the challenge to make an image that gets down to telling the tough truth about life, sometimes ugly, dark and gritty, easier to side step than to confront. Thank goodness not…
Cracked Earth- Australia in Drought
CRACKED EARTH
This entry is a backup to the image Cracked Earth and follows a question posted on my art page. It adds words and weight to Cracked Earth.
Australia is the driest inhabited continent on Earth and from 2003 has recorded the worst drought in a 1000 years in many parts of the country. 30% of this huge continent is desert, but it is the El Nino effect in 2006-7 and global climat…