Fire Hydrant

An interesting subject I thought. From the Waterfront series for the Buckman School. At the end of the day shooting photographs from which to select imagery for my series of two hour oil sketches, I'd focused enough on the archetecture of bridges and the light in the sky and reflecting on the water of the Willamette, and pointed my camera at this object as an unlikely subject for a painting.

2004
oil on panel
8 x 10

Portland Bridges

This oil on masonite sketch looks south on the Willamette River at the Morrison, Hawthorn, and Marquam bridges.

2004
oil on panel
8 x 10

East Side Esplanade

Returning to the group of paintings that I did for the Buckman Elementary School Art Sale, this was on of the better ones in my opinion but I failed to get a picture of it so I asked it's current owner to email me an image. It's a small file so doesn't enlarge so well but you can get the gist here.

10 x 12
oil on panel

Watermelon Girl

In 1981 I found this oddment leaning against a trash can waiting for the weekly pickup by a house in Sunset Beach in California. Tissue paper collage and likely made by a child, something about it captured my imagination and though as a work of art it probably deserved the landfill, there was potential in it's subject and composition. I saved it, and with white paint I developed some contrast between the subject and it's background, gave it a title and called it my own! Twenty seven years later I now plan to use it as a study and work it out as a large painting in oil on canvas. Stay tuned for updates!

18 x 24
collage and mixed media on found art panel
1982/original date and artist unknown

Herb

Before I met any of the people here in my neighborhood where I live and work, I met this character, a good natured lab named Herb. As he was getting on in dog years I realised that I wanted to document him in his domain while I still had the chance, so I made this spirit trap to remember him by. His home was on our street where he developed relationships with all the neighbors, and monitored the coming and going of all who had buisness on our street. It was common on winter nights, when I came home from work after dark, for Herb to be standing in the middle of the street in my headlights lit up like an apparition in the dark. This is how I will always remember him. Rest in peace old fella.

oil on canvas
48 x 45

$1,200 through Rake Art Gallery

The Archives

2003 "Frozen Lale", 1985 "The Lake", 1990 "Spring Thaw"

Image courtesy of Shawn Long Photography

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Calm at the Top and company

Images courtesy of Shawn Long Photography

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The Scroll, 6' of 220!

Here is the scroll in it's case at Rake Art Gallery. On the wall behind the case are high resolution digital prints scanned from the original drawing, and printed on high quality museum rag paper in an edition of 25 for each image. Larger prints are 74" x 14" and the smaller prints are 46" x 14"

Images courtesy of Shawn Long Photography

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Installation view of The Rock Garden

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Excerpts from Flow

Around 210 feet

from The Rock Garden


Around 220 feet, The End!

Selections from the Rock Garden

In August 2007, with the drawing "Flow" 2/3 complete, I did a series of 16 rock portraits in a sketch book while backpacking in Humphries Basin in the John Muir Wilderness in Fresno County. All of these portraits were transcribed into the scroll as part of its final 20' grand finale. In addition, a few of these portraits were incorporated into the paintings that were completed for the exhibit as well.

(appears in "Calm at the Top")

(appears in "Rock Still Life")


ink and graphite on paper
image size 5 x 7
framed size 9 x 11
Archival framing from Katayama Framing in Portland Oregon
dark finished walnut frame by Marcial del Cid of Aloha Oregon
8 ply museum rag mat, and UV filtering glass

$350.00 each

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The Reflecting Pool

Excerpt from "Flow" at aproximately 200'

Freshly completed in late April and now hanging at Rake, this painting displays the full range of my representational and conceptual cross-polination. The rock composition appeared first as innocuous background in a photo taken by a friend, at the Kern River along it's forested lower elevation shore on the western slope of the High Sierra. I interpreteed these river boulders into a section of the 200' scroll, giving them a new setting and scale as rock hopping stones in my alpine stream. For this painting, I re-interpreted them yet again as stones breaking the surface in the shallows along the shore of an alpine lake in "The Reflecting Pool"

2008
oil on canvas
72 x 45
$3,500.00
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Alpine Lake Triptych

Detail of one of the three canvases that form this triptych of nearly identical paintings.

Installation photographs by Shawn Long

2008
25 x 40
oil on canvas

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$1,200.00

A Pair of Pairs, The New View!

Rock and Reflection
35 x 35
oil on canves 2002
1 of 2

Still Life Rocks
35 x 35
oil on canvas 2008
1 of 2

These images, mostly painted this past January were executed as a pair of diptychs where the canvases in each represented nearly identical images. As the work was being arranged for installation, I realized that by placing the two different images together and stacked vertically with the "Rock Still Life" painting as the lower image, I had a new diptych configuration that utilized the two separate images to create a single scene. Happy accident and lucky discovery. The pair of pairs worked as a very effective installation.

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Thirteen Stones

As promised, here is Thirteen Stones in it''s entirety.

40 X 65
oil on canvas
2008

$3,500.00

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