1. One Flew Over the Puffin Tryst: Oil on Belgian Linen 18x18x1 1/4
2. The Courtship: Oil on canvas 20x24x1 1/2
6. Sunflowers & Hibiscus: Oil on canvas 8x10x 1 1/2
Nearly Done:
3. Capped Parrot in Mendocino: Oil on Belgian Linen 22x28x 1/1/4
4. A Lot Going On (Cartoon style): Oil on Linen 12x16x 5/8
In Process:
5. Bird Lovers: Oil on Belgian Linen 22x28x 1 1/4
1. Soft Landing: Red Crow on a Magnolia Flower - 8x10 oil on linen
2. Bald Eagle Flying over a Fractured Rainbow - 8x10 oil on canvas
3. 4 Parakeets in a Arthur Dove Inspired Sunset - 11x10 oil on canvas
4. In Process: Three Girls in a Raft - 8x10 oil on linen
1. Somehow the abstract painting I was thinking of painting (#5) has turned into a Dodo bird painting. Maybe this is because I'm in the process of painting another Dodo painting (more on that later,) or just because birds seem to appear in many of my paintings of their own volition.
2. In 2012, I began a large 36x36 oil painting of The Big Wave, based on a series of nightmares I had over many years.
3. The Big Wave painting included a childhood image of myself looking out of the canvas, oblivious to the danger. Then I added a bunch of other people who were looking at the wave. The execution of the final painting didn't work out (no photo documentation exists of the failed painting).
4. In 2015, I over painted The Big Wave with a white textured background and put the painting in the garage (to join an increasing number of other paintings.) Now that I'm re-enamored of oil painting, I'm resurrecting old works and painting over them.
5. In 2021, I created a digital composite of a blueprint to over paint the over painted Big Wave painting with a colorful abstract background. Part way through the process, a bird head appeared. Now, in 2022, the painting (#1) has turned into a Dodo bird painting. But my childhood self, in the yellow two- piece bathing suit, is still there. I'm tentatively calling this new painting the "Dodo Tamer." It's nearly done, I think, at least for now.
1. Playing in Mud at the Estero 18x24x1.5 oil on stretched canvas.
2. Parts 2 if 5 of a 5x7 oil-on-linen mini landscape series:
a) Northern California Quarry & Hills
b) Winding Road to Mustard Fields
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1. Freckle Face: Young Lucy, in a photo taken by the late, great, E.A. Autrey in 1957 at Paradise near Santa Barbara juxtaposed with a more recent photo shot at Drakes Beach in April, 2015 in Pt. Reyes National Seashore
2. The Eyes Have it: Young Elsa, photo by E.A. Autrey shot in 1959, juxtaposed with a photo shot at Kehoe Beach in Pt. Reyes, September, 2015.
3. May Morn: (The title is a play on the painting September Morn by Paul Emile Chabas, although in this one the girl is wearing a bathing suit) Young Susan, photo by E.A. Autrey in 1956, juxtaposed with a photo shot at Lake Cachuma the last time I visited Santa Barbara in September, 2017.
16 x 20 oil on stretched canvas
My head, at two different ages, replaces the heads of a boy and his sister, from a photo the late, great, E.A. Autrey shot in the 1950s. I was going for kind of a Diane Arbus/Alice Neel look.
1. Fat Lemon - with final color glaze
2. Fat Pomegranate - with final color glaze
3. Lemon, before the final glaze, with the original model. Like Fernando Botero's paintings, the final product seems to have expanded! Link to Botero Museum in Bogota, Columbia for examples of his work (which I love): https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/museo-botero-bogota
4. Pomegranate with its model
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1. Finished still life "Brayer with a Jar of Paintbrushes" oil on stretched canvas 16" x 20" x 3/4"
2. Sketch of Cole Taylor June of 2016 which Wilson painted
3. Sketch of Wilson Taylor June of 2016 which Wilson painted
4. Sketch of wall with outlet and window July 2016 which Wilson scribbled on
5. Sketch of Cole and Wilson July of 2014 where Wilson added the bodies and did the coloring
The bottom four pictures were the inspiration for the top oil painting. I loved doing art with my grandsons where I would get to a point and they would take over. Often the results made the pictures much better! So, without the benefit of having my grandsons around, I pretended my Brayer had a life of its own, and it got into the action after I finished my still life painting, by smearing blue paint on the finished canvas.
Still Life Art Brushes & Roller in process (step 2 finished): 16" h x 20" w
