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Quilt patch

Quilt Patch, about 36x36 inches (estimate from memory), 2008-2009.

I apologize for the horrible picture. This is my first quilt patch, made as a commission for a personal quilt. I believe a real quilter will use this square as part of a full sized quilt, and maybe fix it up in a few places, if needed. A lot of this was done on a sewing machine at my mother's house during the winter holiday. The rest was completed by hand once I returned to Boston in January. It was much more difficult to execute the pattern than I had originally planned. I had very little control and felt rather limited in what I could make and sew together, so I never expected it to look like this, but sometimes that can be beneficial.

December Salon Pieces IV

Untitled, acrylic, oil, watercolor, pencil, ink and paper, 2007-08

This collage is about 5 or 6 inches each way. Part of it was cut out of a painting that I had done last year, titled Green and Warm Yellow (or something like that) which was displayed last year at the Philadelphia Sketch Club. I was never that fond of the original painting and decided it needed a change. There was no use keeping a painting around that I didn't really like anyways.

This piece had a few physical limitations that restrained me to working in a particular way, which actually turned out to be a lot of fun. Because I was working on it the night before the show was going up, I did not have time to let oil paints dry. And because the original painting was done in oil, I could not paint directly on top of it, even with acrylics (oil will go on top of acrylic, but not the other way around). So any time I wanted to change something, I had to paint a separate piece of paper and glue it on. Several times I ended up cutting large chunks of the piece itself to rearrange, and glue onto a new piece of paper. In certain areas there are probably 5 or 6 layers of paper and board stacked in all.

December Salon Pieces III

Julian's Lines, acrylic, paper, pencil and ink on canvas, 2008.

This is a small painting, I think about 5x5 inches. I will admit that I made it pretty quickly the morning that I took all the paintings to the gallery to be submitted. But I think it turned out fairly well in spite of that. (It ended up selling to a local Somerville artist, Bill Turville, famous for his fish car).

The painting is a still life of objects from my work space, pot full of pencils and brushes, can of turpenoide, etc. This is one of the few still lifes that I have done recently, and is also based on direct observation without layers of abstraction between the object and the final product. It is titled Julian's Lines, after Julian Hatton, a New York artist whose work I look at a lot. He uses lines in a really interesting way in combination with blocks of color so I thought it appropriate to reference him in the title.

December Salon Pieces II

Untitled, pen and ink, 4x6 inches, 2008

Untitled, pen and ink, 4x6 inches, 2008

December Salon Pieces

I was born on the day that music died
Watercolor and ink on paper, 4x6in

Untitled
watercolor and ink on paper, 4x6in