15 December 2006

The Half Centipede Fun



122x81cm, 3:2, on paper
Centipedes (Class Chilopoda) are fast-moving venomous, predatory, terrestrial arthropods that have long bodies and many jointed legs.
To paint these paintings was my hardest paint job! 2 paint centipedes is hard work. I begged them to hold still, that I haven't finished his leg # 957, just a few brush strokes more, but they just crawled away. No respect to the fine arts.

Kent Rockwell's athletic brushwork and daring color dissonances and decidedly reactionary:

 from Alaska—uniformly  horizontal  studies of light and color— painter Rockwell Kent - Artist in Greenland - Baltimore Art Museum ............