http://robertolsenart.com/blog Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:41:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ... from whenever to whenever and haven't had much to blog about---not that that is a requirement to blog. Here is one of my efforts I just finished, so I thought I'd share the image. The painting is 9 by 16 inches oil on panel. It is currently untitled, ... http://robertolsenart.com/blog/2008/08/26/ive-been-working/ ...pictures forthcoming. Here is a reference image of a flower until then. http://robertolsenart.com/blog/2008/08/16/i-bought-more-lemon/ Tonight is still life night. As soon as I finish this post, I am going to start cutting lemons into pleasing parts. Instead of a new post I added the images below. http://robertolsenart.com/blog/2008/08/08/more-images/ I finally set up a new backdrop for my still life images with the aforementioned black fabric; I was using a piece of black foamcore. It only took two days of procrastination (pushing 4 pins into the wall, and a little ironing). http://robertolsenart.com/blog/2008/08/07/jam/ I am in painting mode, therefore the posts are spreading out again. I've been working on the "traditional" paintings that I've mentioned before. Part of that is the portrait I posted awhile ago. Today, I worked on it with what I think are good results, so I thought I'd show ... http://robertolsenart.com/blog/2008/08/06/update-portraits/ http://robertolsenart.com/blog/2008/07/25/what-i-did-before-i-went-to-bed-this-morning/ This is a quick and dirty edit of a potential still life image. I was happy with the composition of the bottles, but I had to added a few pixels on both sides of the images to correct the final format, and I took out the light source to the ... http://robertolsenart.com/blog/2008/07/24/beer/ I was at my parents last week. While I was there, I got a handful of candles (first picture). The second picture is an OK image of two of the "new" candles. I didn't feel like waiting till Aperture finished backing up to get a better picture. http://robertolsenart.com/blog/2008/07/22/new-candles/ As this is the time for the "Summer Group Show," there are a few openings---maybe even a lot of openings---on the 12th. I am included and attending an exhibit curated by Beautiful/Decay at Nathan Larramendy Gallery up in Ojai. I was told and subsequently looked it up that there ... http://robertolsenart.com/blog/2008/07/09/this-weekend-a-quick-plug/ Obituary from the San Francisco Chronicle's SFGate. Here is his page at Michael Kohn Gallery in Los Angeles. http://robertolsenart.com/blog/2008/07/08/bruce-conner-1933-2008/