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I love the idea of doing a painting a day…whether or not I can is another story.
Here’s the first in awhile: an abstracted landscape in oil, 10″x10″. Not sure if I’m done with it or not…
Starting A Painting a Day
Peaceful Abstract Landscape by Karen Jacobs
Here’s another really gorgeous abstract landscape — makes me wish I were there (kind of like Robin Williams in “What Dreams May Come” or that bit in Akira Kurasawa’s movie (I think it may have been called “Dreams”) where Van Gogh wanders through his own paintings.
Anyway, I’d love to roll in a field of paint that looks like this. Luscious! View more of Karen’s Work at her website.
Beautiful Abstract Landscapes by Cheryl McClure
Favorite painter of the day: Cheryl McClure, whose beautiful abstract landscapes I found online at the Jezebel Gallery. This is my favorite! Gorgeous colors and I love how it works as a landscape and also as purely abstract shapes. I’m really led into and through the painting by her use of color and shape.
See more of Cheryl’s work at her website; read her blog at Johnson Creek Studio.
Scott Barber
Untitled, 2005
Urethane on aluminum
60 × 42 in
I stumbled on an exhibit by Scott Barber while taking a few days off in Galveston for our anniversary. Very keen abstract work, a lot of which had a very topographical look, was manipulated from photographs using PhotoShop into unrecognizable beautiful forms which then make their way onto the canvas (or aluminum or polyfiber, as the case may be).
Barber’s works were the best thing in Galveston on this trip, and the rest of the trip was pretty good! Sadly, this was a posthumous show; Barber died in 2005 of complications following a bone marrow transplant.
Also, here is a page from Glasstire magazine about Scott Barber.
The Essence Lies in the Visual Meaning
Class notes from SAIC, 1991
The image must communicate something special which appeals to the senses through the way they are presented.
Abstract concepts help to provide visual meaning (aside from subject matter).
The subject supplies literal meaning.
The essence of a work lies in its visual meaning.