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Fine
Art Oil Paintings
Sauna
in the Woods
Journey
to the East
Crucifixion
Large
format poster prints available
Painted
the day of President Kennedy's assassination.
Collection
of Walton Danforth Stowell, Harpers Ferry.
1963
Medieval
Reflections
Warren's
Tree
5'
x 6'
oil
on canvas
More
tree paintings on our Landscapes page
and our Tree
Paintings page.
Two
Birches
20
x 24
oil on canvas
1982
Winds
of Autumn
24"
x 30"
oil on canvas
1985
Flower Pool
Irish Madonna
and Child
By the Waters of Babylon
This
painting is developed from one of the psalms of David. I like
the King
James translation
better than the others. It goes “By
the waters of Babylon we sat and we hanged our harps in the trees,
for how could we sing our songs” and, of course, this is
about the Babylonian captivity. I think it is Psalm 22; however,
it is different in different bibles.
16" x
20"
Bountiful
Fruit
Bountiful
Fruit is from a series of paintings I did of fruits and
vegetables. I actually had real fruit and vegetables around set
up for a
painting class that I was teaching at the Fitchburg Art Museum
and,
in critiquing the works, I viewed the still life from many angles.
The
next morning back in my own studio, I painted from memory,
but took great liberties with
what I had seen. I have used a kind of pointillist approach
where the paint is put on in small amounts in a staccato pattern,
and I
usually tint my canvas first. I don't like to work against
a white surface,
so I usually color it and, in this case, the canvas was colored
a very pale
lavender and then all the colors were developed on top of it.
It
was done quite rapidly, over no more than two days, in painting
sessions
of no more
than three hours apiece. People are always asking me "how
long did it take?" This was about six hours of work.
20" x
24"
Magic
Forest
20" x
24"
Woodland
Stream
with Waterfall
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Joe
Pieweeds Walk
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Both are from the Newport, NH area.
These paintings are framed and available from the studio.
Pair of framed oil paintings with silver gilt frames.
12 x 16 each canvas
1993
Evolution
of an Oil Painting: Buddha Under the Bodhi Tree
This
is an oil painting (now in a private California collection) that
I did before moving to Newport in the late 1990's. This left-to-right
sequence shows the evolution of the work in oils from beginning
to completion. First, the grey scale underpainting is in water-diluted
India ink. This was followed by a wash of burnt umber in diluted
oil medium which, in turn, was followed by the glazing medium of
the final image. Then came the final varnish coat. It is a very
old way of working, and it often requires days of waiting for glaze
coats to dry.
When it was developed, it was an alternate method of painting
instead of the egg tempera or fresco techniques of the middle ages
and
early renaissance.
Today
we have come back to water based media and paintings can be done
with acrylic, which is the best of both worlds. It
is water soluble and is easy to clean when mistakes are made. It
dries quickly,
allowing the artist to work with much more speed, especially
with glazing and final varnishing. It is waterproof and can
be
cleaned
with soap and water if it gets dirty. It eliminates toxic
fumes and pigments.
After
the Ice
Oil
on canvas
Vincent Price Selection
1964
Annunciation
Oil
on canvas
Vincent Price Selection
1964
Multiple
Figures
Large
format poster prints available
Oil
on canvas
Vincent Price Selection
1963
Dantian
Masks
Oil
on canvas
Vincent Price Selection
1964
Iku Tursas
5 x 6 feet
Oil on canvas
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