Showing posts with label Art School Years. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Art School Years. Show all posts
Still life Philodendron
8x10, acrylic on canvas, © 1975
Private Collection
When I went to Iowa to take my comprehensive exams for a Master's degree in Art History, I stayed with a couple. They were close friends and gracious hosts, and I presented them with this painting as a thank you for the lodging.
Unfortunately, I do not have a high-quality photo of the piece.
Utah House
24x36, acrylic on canvas, 1971
Private Collection
This is a commission of a coworker at the State Board of Education, where I was the mail clerk. Her desk was right outside the mail room door. Her husband was working on an MBA from the University of Utah. I painted several watercolors from which she selected this picture. It was from some promotional material from the State of Utah.
Private Collection
This is a commission of a coworker at the State Board of Education, where I was the mail clerk. Her desk was right outside the mail room door. Her husband was working on an MBA from the University of Utah. I painted several watercolors from which she selected this picture. It was from some promotional material from the State of Utah.
Abstraction in Blue and Red
NO IMAGAE AVALABLE
24x36, acrylic on canvas, 1970 Private Collection
After a woman saw the painting that I had done for Marge, she was interested in a similar painting. I devised a similar feel to a painting using the same color but with an original design. It was framed with Luan attached directly to the frame.
Uintahs
36x48, acrylic on canvas, © 1970
Destroyed
Marge and I took a trip to Moon Lake in the Uintah mountains. The trees were bent due to the weight of many winter snow seasons. I took a photograph of a closed landscape (one without sky). I used the photo to paint this picture for the living room of our apartment. The apartment was on Third Avenue in Salt Lake City. The painting hung above our couch for many years.
It was damaged to the point that I destroyed it. I was sad to see it go.
Closed landscapes are always intriguing to me—not the easiest to do.
Destroyed
Marge and I took a trip to Moon Lake in the Uintah mountains. The trees were bent due to the weight of many winter snow seasons. I took a photograph of a closed landscape (one without sky). I used the photo to paint this picture for the living room of our apartment. The apartment was on Third Avenue in Salt Lake City. The painting hung above our couch for many years.
It was damaged to the point that I destroyed it. I was sad to see it go.
Closed landscapes are always intriguing to me—not the easiest to do.
Tilt-a-Whirls in Liberty Park
36x48, acrylic on canvas, © 1969
Collection of the artist
As part of a watercolor class with George Dibble, the class went to Liberty Park (plein air) in Salt Lake City. There I did a watercolor which I liked and subsequently painted it in acrylic as an abstraction. It was framed with Luan boards attached directly to the frame.
An Abstraction for Love
48x36, acrylic on canvas, © 1969
Collection of the artist
I met a wonderful woman, Marge, who wanted a large painting for a new apartment that she was moving into on 7th East in Salt Lake City. I found a picture on the cover of a magazine and she liked it, so I painted a similar one for her. It is framed with Luan attached directly to the stretcher bars and then finished with Tung oil.
It was exhibited for over a year in a restaurant in Salt Lake City. In all the moves and inattention it became damaged, and I have since repaired it.
Izatt Cabin
24x36, acrylic on canvas, © 1969
Private Collection
It was painted "en plein air" (outside) and finished in the studio. Because of the size of the work and the environmental difficulties, I could not finish it in the field. That day I got a serious sunburn as a result of painting at the elevation and in the bright sun. When I applied the paint, it would dry almost immediately due to the heat and lack of humidity in Idaho. It is a painting of the homestead cabin of Charles Izatt in Gem Valley, Idaho.
City Creek Tree
Home Phone
18x24, oil on panel, © 1969
Collection of the Artist
An assignment painting from art school. It was painted in the basement of my parents' home. I painted it as a statement of the slickness of the modern pop culture. I took off the dial on the phone and knobs on the amplifiers to emphasize the point. I had some difficulty with the perspective, but this seemed to enhance the feeling of the piece.
Still Life with Lamp
Horse Skull
18x24, oil on canvas, © 1969
Collection of the artist
This was an assignment to paint a still life in grisaille and then add color. I glazed the skull, bottle, and background. That worked fairly well, but the coffee pot and cup I couldn't get red enough and finally used an opaque red to complete the effect.
Grisaille: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grisaille
Pointillist Still Life
18x24, oil on canvas, © 1969
Collection of the artist
An experimental assignment in the same painting class using dots of colors and letting the eye mix them. I don't believe that I have the patience to do this type of painting as my dots were too large and the colors not close enough in value to mix well. Good exercise that I won't repeat soon.
Still life with bread
18x26, oil on canvas, © 1969
Collection of the artist
This painting was a set up in an oil painting class at the University of Utah. It was originally a larger work, but composition dictated that it be smaller, and so I made it smaller. It is a fair representation of the setup, but the gray does not work well for an artistic painting.
Collection of the artist
This painting was a set up in an oil painting class at the University of Utah. It was originally a larger work, but composition dictated that it be smaller, and so I made it smaller. It is a fair representation of the setup, but the gray does not work well for an artistic painting.
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