Blind Birds.
Just because.
Just because.
My Blind Birds was first thought of around the same time I started producing the cardboard series in Virginia. I wanted to see what the visual differences would be between the surfaces of cardboard and canvas, cardboard being of low quality aesthetics while canvas holding more of a traditional feel. With cardboard it only took a short while for the oil to dry and was much easier to spread handle because of the smooth solid surface, canvas on the other hand gave resistance in the process of spreading paint and longer to dry.
The first painting of Blind birds was that of just a few birds with my same technique of the cardboard pieces, the bold black contour lines, deformed shapes, and a Chagall inspired palette on a 2 1/2' x 4' stretched canvas I crafted myself. A year and half later, "Blind birds 2" was completed. The much larger sequel is done on a piece of unstretched canvas that measures about 16' x 12' and with a more matured craftsmanship along with more birds and the same Chagall inspired color scheme, but with a stronger focus on red and the combination of colors contrasting and complimenting the hew. This piece is to date the largest work I've done and is so massive I have yet designed a frame to mount it on so it remains rolled up in my studio.
Birds as a subject in my opinion has been overdone, it is in the same realm as the bowl of fruit, the reclining nude, and the mountainous landscape. Yet I still choose the fowls often times in my work because of their universal familiarity and their variety of colors.
The first painting of Blind birds was that of just a few birds with my same technique of the cardboard pieces, the bold black contour lines, deformed shapes, and a Chagall inspired palette on a 2 1/2' x 4' stretched canvas I crafted myself. A year and half later, "Blind birds 2" was completed. The much larger sequel is done on a piece of unstretched canvas that measures about 16' x 12' and with a more matured craftsmanship along with more birds and the same Chagall inspired color scheme, but with a stronger focus on red and the combination of colors contrasting and complimenting the hew. This piece is to date the largest work I've done and is so massive I have yet designed a frame to mount it on so it remains rolled up in my studio.
Birds as a subject in my opinion has been overdone, it is in the same realm as the bowl of fruit, the reclining nude, and the mountainous landscape. Yet I still choose the fowls often times in my work because of their universal familiarity and their variety of colors.
Blind Birds 1
Blind Birds 2.
