23 April 2009
Shared horizons
Shared Horizons is a new project that I’m developing with a really interesting artist called Bill Brody. We met when I was in Alaska working on the Cook Inlet panorama. He has a completely committed way of working on the landscape. I originally saw his landscape painting in Anchorage Museum, we later met at Stephan Fine Arts where I also saw his printmaking.
We are going to work together on the Isle of Skye this autumn, painting and printmaking and hope to show in Alaska and the UK.
The plan is to start exchanging work now, in preparation for the intensive time on Skye in four months time. We are exchanging ideas and work in progress, and for me that has to start with my sketchbooks :
These are from my trip to Omaha beach in Normandy, I’ve also just finished two panoramic paintings. One of Pointe d’Hoc in Normandy
More follows !
(1) 27 April 2009 at 3:42 pm
Bill Brody
Hey, Doug
Your three sketches in particular are stunning! Now my competitive juices are starting to flow. This is going to be quite a fun ride!
Bill
(2) 27 April 2009 at 4:15 pm
doug
Hey Bill
thanks for the comment, isn’t it really good to be finally making work for this project ?
I’m funny about being competitive, I find it disables me such a lot. I hooked up with you for the same reason I always tried to be in bands with better musicians than I was - it always made me sound better and I had more fun. I really admire your printmaking and the way the drawing spoke through the paint in that big piece I saw in Anchorage museum (a small stream coming down through rocks in a valley with lots of different vegetation). Can’t remember the name.
I’m hoping to learn form you about using oils in the open air because I feel very stuck in the Constable type dilemma. His direct oil sketches are groundbreaking but the 6 footers he did in the studio are not as strong for me. I love working in my sketchbooks in the same way I respond so strongly to Constables oil sketches. Something goes flat when I start working on them in the studio. Is there some way we can show the work on paper, or some other way to get that jazz juice into the studio work .. ?
This is what I’m really interested in debating with you.
Shall I send the sketches over, is that how you saw the call and response element ?
Allbest, Doug