egg number 2 • 1991 • another painting a day

i loved theses two pieces so much that though i had friends who wanted to purchase them i kept them.
(i might be convinced to let them go though usually the first one of new series ends up being precious to me).
They are well loved were in my kitchen, slight splatters on the raw linen showing.
That was one thing that happened~ i loved the grey texture color of the primed linen so much i used it as a tone itself, as if i was doing a pastel.
very fast, very impasto. the light in the shadow was my focus and color as you can see and with the fewest strokes how could i define this form, usually for warm up and fine tuning i paint white on white (those will be coming.. white eggs, onions on white table clothes, sometimes accented by a dark object, like a bottle of wine.. here i had brown range free eggs and was craving the form, painting an egg is so sensual, as it curves in such a beautiful manner. and if you don't look an pay attention it doesn't feel solid , or well formed. also i was playing with the angles, these were painted on fine portrait linen ~ i like how the smoothness shows the strokes. 9x11", oil 1991.
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My original Eggs "a painting a day"

Painted in August 1991 in my studio in Westchester California, a beautiful home once overlooking the Playa DeleVista Bluffs, before homes were built. I was so touched by a now rare stretch of empty land that had foxes and birds and all manners of wild life still thriving there. That I painted the egg, symbol of the beginning of new life, very appropriate to the changes in my life now as well :)

First Oil Painting

The road I will see and paint. It's a painting with every view ~ endless subjects, endless beauty.



I have been painting since I could touch my finger to the wall, my first oil painting was when I was three. I had discovered my mother's paint box, hidden in the garage. I was mesmerized but this magical tubes and began smearing the rich
Alizarin Crimson all over my hands and then the depth and vibrant Thalo Blue and Prussian Blue.
I then took off all my clothes and. continued to paint myself.
Once i was satisfied i ran through the house touching everything i could with these wonderful colors, my first conceptual piece. I was hooked though I was already drawing at1 and painting in watercolors at 1 1/2.
these jewels in tubes were now my passion and as you can imagine off limits to me as well for many years.

Packing a painting a day

4 seasons nyc
watercolor
7x10"
2004
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It's the middle of the night, I should be asleep yet I am packing the urge to be at the cabin in my studio and outside painting is so overwhelming. sleep will come later. I love the thought of having this dialog with with art lover's and collectors in a way that is more direct, less informal. Sharing a glimpse into an observant studied creative life that is part of the discipline of doing a painting a day.
This is a water color I did at the Four Seasons Manhattan.
The Met is one of my favorite places to be and I have come to love New York.