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Paintings on Cork
In 1983 a friend who was moving out of his trailer gave me some cork panels that he was otherwise going to throw out. I took them and put them away for a few years, knowing that I would find a way to use them someday.
When I started doing larger paintings and realized that I wasn't very good at estimating how much paint to use, and just throwing things away goes against my grain, I thought they would be a good way to use up my excess. The cork really soaks up the paint and it takes several layers before it doesn't fade after a week or two.
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(left) "Green Eyes" a simple title because couldn't think of anything else to call it.(right)"Blue Eyes" Same deal. And once I started calling them by these titles they just seemed to stick. |
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(left) "Wise Guys" refers to the three wise men in the Christmas story. (right)"Land" reminded me somewhat of a view of the ground from an airplane |
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(left) "King" seems to me to be somewhat of a reluctant ruler, and is that a cigarette dangling from his lips? (right) "Nessy" The reddish shape in the upper-left reminded me of a famous photo taken at Loch Ness. |
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(left) "Parthenon" refers to its temple-like qualities, and the colors convey somewhat the heat I felt when I visited the Acropolis in 1986. (right) "What Dave Feels Like When He Leaves John's at 3am" seems pretty self-explanitory to me. (The John Schwindel Collection) |
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(left) "yellow Halo" Looks to me like some saintly figure looking on and wondering what I'm going to do next. (right) "Bruce Plays The Guitar With A Big Tie" resembles my friend Bruce wailing on the guitar (The Bruce Walters/Ritalee Heurung Collection). |
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About the Music"2nd Movement"
This was written in 2001 using Cakewalkexpress8, I had been thinking of writing a symphony and had no idea how much work it would be. But I did get few interesting peices out of the experement.
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