Nov 14, 2008
'the LOUNGE"
A dive of a place but, it was late, I was tired after a long drive, didn't want much food and needed a cold beer to wash down the dust after 9 hours of back roads, dead ends and map reading, I deserved this stop. Oil on archival board this 6x8 inch beauty is mounted on a 2 1/2 inch deep varnished wood box so no framing. $155
Nov 12, 2008
Nov 9, 2008
"THE FENCE"
The fence ran along the property line covering quite a large area. As I watched the last remaining light of the sun fade behind the clouds that closed in on the land this day I thought to myself "not even a fence can keep winters snow from coming in". My how I love nature. Oil on archival board mounted on a deep varnished wooden box. (Sold)
Nov 8, 2008
"SEASONS"
It is most fantastic to see and feel the rhythm of changes of the season. It was equally apropos and evident in the change of climate in this country and the world that most took part in. I welcome with open arms the change of the new. My ode to a new beginning in oils, 6x6 inch on archival board on a varnished wooden box. For availability E-mail:schwartzart@earthlink.net
Nov 3, 2008
Nov 2, 2008
"THE BAY"
As the sun was just about to go into hiding, with the warm breeze blowing a cold drink setting on the table next to me, I picked my camera up and took this departing shot for the evening.... Three years later and far, far from this magical of places, I return if only in my minds-eye..
6x8 inch oil on archival board mounted on a varnished deep wooden box so no framing for this little jewel. $155 (Sold)
6x8 inch oil on archival board mounted on a varnished deep wooden box so no framing for this little jewel. $155 (Sold)
Oct 27, 2008
"LONG WALK HOME"
Out on a back road in San Antonio I caught this as the sun was just about to drop out of the sky.
I have over a couple of years painted this scene and each time there is something new that I gain in the coloring and the application of the pigments.. I have painted this as a 74"x30 and now 6x8 inch and I must say I really like what took place this time in around with equal enthusiasm over the finished piece. Oil on archival board mounted on a deep varnished wooden box with no framing needed. (Sold)
Oct 22, 2008
"MED-DAY IN L.A."
After jumping out of the cab holding my trusty camera, I got one shot and ran inside for I was running late. The geometrics of the city has and always will be a fascination for me. The shadows against the walls has its own shapes leaving the negative space with its shape... I love it, what can I say.... Painted with oils on archival board mounted on a deep varnished wooden box measuring 6x6 inch. For availability E-mail:schwartzart@earthlink.net
Oct 20, 2008
"LAST SUMMER"
A more impressionistic view of a place I stayed this last summer... The friendships, good food, wine and a place I could call home are memories forever... The fact that I painted this with a much freer brushstroke is most symbolic of my time there. I did it without thinking, a real letting go, something I should do more off... What a fun thing to have presented itself to me...
Here is a 6x8 inch oil on archival board mounted on a deep finished box. Buy this now at $145
Oct 17, 2008
"STILL-LIFE & SHADOWS"
I wanted to return to still-life painting and at the same time keep my sky paintings as a recurring theme. I thought. "Why not paint the still-life casting a shadow on the sky". That way I keep each separate allowing the viewer to sense the whole as a composition in mood. I hope you enjoy these as much as I in painting them. Here is the forth in the series.
"MELON & STARLIGHT"
No need to say much more other then it was very tasty. Oil on a 6x8 inch archival board mounted on a varnished 2 1/2inch deep wooden box. (Sold)
"MELON & STARLIGHT"
No need to say much more other then it was very tasty. Oil on a 6x8 inch archival board mounted on a varnished 2 1/2inch deep wooden box. (Sold)
Oct 15, 2008
"STILL-LIFE & SHADOWS"
Oct 14, 2008
Oct 13, 2008
"STILL-LIFE & SHADOWS"
Oct 8, 2008
"WEST COAST WAVE #5
Oct 6, 2008
"WEST COAST WAVE #4"
Walking along the beach in Corona Del Mar in Orange county after summer is the best time for you can get to it without all the traffic. 6x6 inch oil on archival board mounted on a deep 2 1/2" wood box so no framing in needed. For availability E-mail:schwartzart@earthlink.net
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Oct 3, 2008
Oct 2, 2008
Sep 10, 2008
"EASTSIDE WESTSIDE U.S.A."
This wet and wintry street is a real place that I've been. Each of us has been there and know of this place, to stop at, to think about, to remember and feel.... Thus I gave it its name for its all of ours to claim and say I've been there too.
This is a 6"x8" oil on archival board mounted on a deep finished box with no framing required. (Sold)
This is a 6"x8" oil on archival board mounted on a deep finished box with no framing required. (Sold)
"BALBOA"
Taken from my good friends Duffy in the bay at Newport, I was able to get this shot. We, the three of us parked the Duffy and went an had some snakes, drinks, good laughs then back to there house and continued the evening with a great barbecue, good wine as always and that finished off my evening, I then looked forward to the painting of it. So here is this 6"x8" oil on archival board with no framing needed. (SOLD)
Sep 6, 2008
"SOUTH TEXAS"
Aug 8, 2008
"YES! I PROMISE"
Yes I promise to do more of my blog paintings and post them...
I will start this week as I miss not doing them. but it is time and so I must begin..
I have time to think on what I want to do next, not just with my blogs paintings but my larger canvases... I feel or sense a change coming on, its like being aware of something behind me that will come forward and revel itself... I welcome this new arrival to be displayed on my canvases and perhaps blogs... Till then, bed you ado.
I will start this week as I miss not doing them. but it is time and so I must begin..
I have time to think on what I want to do next, not just with my blogs paintings but my larger canvases... I feel or sense a change coming on, its like being aware of something behind me that will come forward and revel itself... I welcome this new arrival to be displayed on my canvases and perhaps blogs... Till then, bed you ado.
Jul 31, 2008
"RAIN ON THE PLAINS"
Jul 28, 2008
"MURAL PROJECT"
This was painted at the Laguna Beach art show that you have heard me talk so much about... Here is one of many projects that came up. This one I had to get involved with for it seamed apprapo for our effort at the DP this coming month.... This is a 12' long by 5' high mural on canvas that was a collaborative effort of four artists from the show..... I was asked if I would work on this and I said "yes" without knowing what it was about, but I thought it would be fun to do with three other artists on this one mural and four artists on another ... My team painted this one that you see in 4 hours... I painted the sky first then we each jumped in and did something to pull this off.... Dagmar came up with the planets, Bruce the grasslands, Shockley the dragonfly's... We danced around never disturbing the efforts of the other..... There were no egos so everyone could make a mark, add a color, take over if one got side tracked and always kept in mind what this was about " The Children & The Planet" This entire project was filmed and in the end some 5200 murals totaling 12 miles will be wrapped around a pyramid in Egypt in 2010.. This project is for the ( www.the-art-miles-mural-project.org ) Take a look and get involved, for we each pass through here only once.
My team :
Dagmar Chaplin
Bruce Burr
Tim Shockley
& yours truly
Gerald Schwartz
GS
My team :
Dagmar Chaplin
Bruce Burr
Tim Shockley
& yours truly
Gerald Schwartz
GS
Jul 22, 2008
"NIGHT TRAVELS"
Jun 22, 2008
"LADYBUG, LADYBUG"
Jun 16, 2008
Jun 6, 2008
Jun 5, 2008
"MEL'S DINER"
(SOLD)
Just a playful little painting for me and a place I remember. Mel's Diner , not to be confused with Mel's Drive In.. I think if I'm not mistaken, but there is a Mel's "The one I'm familiar with" Hollywood, the Vally, San Francisco, I think Miami... Breakfast at Mel's, "Who could forget" 6"x8" oil on archival board & no framing needed. :schwartzart@earthlink.net
Jun 4, 2008
"SUMMER TIME"
Summer time on balboa Island in Newport beach. Yet another painting I have done on this place, the palm trees, shadows and the famous ferris wheel keeps me coming back for more... Candy apples, popcorn & runaway balloons, good places to eat, just a great place to have fun on a summer time day. 6"x8" oil on archival board with no framing required. (SOLD)
Jun 2, 2008
"ISLANDS"
Taken from some past photos and a nice change from my urban landscape's I enjoyed the process of this painting. It is a 6"x8" on archival board with no faming needed. schwartzart@earthlink.net
May 30, 2008
"ASSUMING THE OBVIOUS"
(SOLD)
We are so quick to assume the obvious.
Setting on the side of the road with no sign of anyone around car nor person I was struck by how clean this little beauty was from just a quick glance as I drove past. There seem to be nothing wrong with it so why was it left.. Then I thought, Maybe, just maybe it was not left but was waiting, waiting to be connected to begin its journey...6" x 6" oil on archival clay board with no framing required.
May 28, 2008
"MORNING SHADOWS"
May 26, 2008
May 24, 2008
"RUSH HOUR"
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Working on beating the rush hour only to know that some construction is taking place on the freeway which means I get to meet and have light conversation with the people in the next car, this will be fun seeing as I don't have enough friends.... This painting is handled as a B&W with that crazy mixing that I do and some color thrown in for some good measure. 8"x6" Oil on canvas mounted on archival board and no framing is needed for this or any other that I post. schwartzart@earthlink.net
"THE SPRINGS"
(SOLD)
A trip to Palm Springs on the 10 with the big clouds ahead of me gave me a good moody morning to do this as one of my B&W.. This is a 6" x 6" oil painting on an archival clay board and nor framing is needed. schwartzart@earthlink.net
May 23, 2008
"WEDNESDAY NIGHT"
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Going home one late night on a rainy Wednesday night I turn to see the glare of the city give the nighttime sky a wonderful glow, so I take one shot and head on out... After looking at the image I decided to paint it as a B&W. I make my black using about five different colors and mixed into this a dry pigment color is a secret.
What this pigment does is alter the tone of whatever it is mixed into giving it a depth that I love. I also mix it into the white which further pushes the gray scale... This pigment was given to me by an artist that came in to my studio about three days prior just to make some light conversation... She tells me I should use this pigment and hands me this plastic bag with about a pound of this iridescent beautiful color... She tells me to handle it very carefully, and to wear a mask when mixing. It is lighter then talcum so fans are off and windows closed so there is very little movement in the studio when I opening the bag. Just that movement alone makes the pigment float and twirl like smoke.... In using it I feel like a sorcerer making colors appear before me. In the nine years and fifteen B&W paintings that I use this with, I am always surprised at the outcome and I have never had to go back and change the color...I Love this stuff... 6"x7" oil on a gessoed oak panel.. PS. I never saw her again after that day.
What this pigment does is alter the tone of whatever it is mixed into giving it a depth that I love. I also mix it into the white which further pushes the gray scale... This pigment was given to me by an artist that came in to my studio about three days prior just to make some light conversation... She tells me I should use this pigment and hands me this plastic bag with about a pound of this iridescent beautiful color... She tells me to handle it very carefully, and to wear a mask when mixing. It is lighter then talcum so fans are off and windows closed so there is very little movement in the studio when I opening the bag. Just that movement alone makes the pigment float and twirl like smoke.... In using it I feel like a sorcerer making colors appear before me. In the nine years and fifteen B&W paintings that I use this with, I am always surprised at the outcome and I have never had to go back and change the color...I Love this stuff... 6"x7" oil on a gessoed oak panel.. PS. I never saw her again after that day.
May 14, 2008
"JUST A TRIM"
May 13, 2008
"L.A. HAZE"
Working this painting a little more gave it what I felt it was missing. There is always a tweak here a tweak there, the never ending saga of painting... Yes, I probably analyze my work to much but I don't know how not to and yet, I know, there are those that I have painted that I must say "STOP" and its on to the next. 6"x8" oil on archival board with no framing required.
May 11, 2008
"RED BOOTH DINER"
A nice departure from my skies was needed for me so I dug around in some old photos and found one form my "Johnny Rocket" series that I did some years back... I handled this loosely giving more movement to my brush work then my usual smoother approach, I must say this was really a lot of fun to do and hope you all like it too.. 6"x6 oil on archival clay board with no framing required. (SOLD)
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