The rest of the story
I found this while cleaning my room today, and somehow it seemed appropriate. I’m really big on making my students do self-portraits; maybe it caused Matt to become unhinged. As I mentioned earlier this week, Matt Menzies used to prattle on about my falling over a cliff at High Tor. For some reason, he committed …
Rolling out my Q&A column
These are a few of my favorite things… My media advisor suggested I do an occasional Q&A column. Today I was texted this great question, so no time like the present: MM writes: I have an opportunity to show in NYC in June. My big (5’X4’) paintings have been taken off their stretchers and rolled. …
Painting with Friends
Durand-Eastman in early Spring, 11X14, oil on canvasboard. I am not that keen on early Spring colors, which to me often look clichéd, and I didn’t like this when I painted it. I like it a lot more now. It’s brassy—just like me. Marilyn Feinberg was raised in Irondequoit, so it is no surprise that …
How not to clean your studio
Never let them stash stuff in your studio…. unless there’s no other place for it, of course. Sadly the cello and the hats are probably safest here right now. Joe the Painter stopped by last week looking for work. I like Joe, and I have a very old house with plaster walls which occasionally need …
That fine line between art and erotica
Hermaphrodite, Mateo Bonarelli, 1652, Prado “Son of Hermes and Aphrodite, Hermaphrodite was a singularly handsome youth. According to Ovid (Metamorphoses 4, 285 ff.) Salmacis, the nymph from a lake in Caria, was enthralled by his beauty and passionately embraced him while he was bathing. Their two bodies merged as one, with double gender. “This sculpture, commissioned …