Craig Ford’s Fine-Art Blog
A multi-disciplinary, pop-art post-modern artist
Still Life #5
March 6, 2014
20″ x 20″ oil painting
Here’s the next installment of this still-life series. I’m continuing to try stop seeing things and learn instead to concentrate on the tonal shapes that make up the subject. By not being tied down to initial lines, one has the freedom to work in a quicker, looser style. Or at least that is the theory.
Snow day in Jaw-Ja
January 30, 2014
Georgia received some frozen precipitation earlier this week much to everyone’s amazement and chagrin. It was rather cold outside and difficult on bare fingers holding a pen while attempting to do some drawings, so a couple of quick sketches of the wooded area outside of my studio.
pen & ink sketch
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pen & ink sketch
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Queequeg’s Junket Series – Anita
January 19, 2014
part of Queequeg’s Junket Series
18″ x 18″ oil on canvas
I find our obsession with fame and celebrity fascinating, and with the advent of so-called reality TV for the past decade, we are given people with little or no talent that suddenly become all the water-cooler talk. With apologies to Herman Melville for this series’ title, here’s a little 18″x 18″ oil on canvas painting. The theme to this series is going to be American semi-celebrities (as opposed to those who truly achieve fame) who eventually exceed their 15 minutes of fame. And yet as their fame blooms, they tend to come across in a kind of warrior mode journey that usually backfires and accelerates their banishment to the memory bin. Hence the term “junket” that accompanies the title.
Roxy on Red
January 6, 2014
12″x 12″ oil on canvas
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Here’s a portrait of my cat, Roxy, relaxing the day away.
Still Life #1 (a pair)
November 23, 2013
14″x 18″ oil on canvas
18″x 20″ oil on canvas
Instead of painting multiple images unto a single canvas as has been the case in most of my postings here, I have painted a single subject spread over two different sized canvases. I had these two little canvases (14″x 18″ and 18″x 20″) sitting around my studio for over a year, and after I used up my main source of stretch canvas I opted to finally put these to use resulting in this still life. After wondering if I should combine the two paintings as a diptych, I have them both framed separately as two individual pieces.
factory work
September 9, 2013
Here’s part of my series of collages commissioned by a human resource law firm to depict/suggest the types of business this law firm is engaged with. This particular image is dealing with the manufacturing industry that at one time was the “meat & potatoes” in America’s economic engine. Part of this series’ relation to one another is the use of mechanical parts, time pieces and human figures that make up the countries workforce. This particular piece was printed to canvas for final art.
Vee’s Window (Into The White)
June 26, 2013
While playing around with panorama photo feature on my cell phone, I took the segment assembled, partially proportion distorted image and saw it as an interesting source for a new painting. So the perspective and scale of the objects were deliberately painted in, to make what I think is a very different approach for me but made for a nicer painting. Nothing much else to explain, the painting speaks for itself or should at least.
36″x 36″ oil on canvas
Still Life in Green and Orange
December 21, 2012
While looking and another allegorical theme to paint in segments as has been the case over the last couple of years, there was a portion of my earlier painting, Holiday in the Sun, that I felt like revisiting. The source image I have of some red-orange peppers I thought made an interesting contrast against some green colored peppers. The orange peppers come across as more red in the photo of the painting; there is a fine line between reds and oranges but the majority of those non-green shapes are of an orange cast. Either way, I like the bending and curved shapes pushed up against one another.
36″x 36″ oil on canvas
This work is currently on exhibit and for sale as the original or as fine-art giclée prints on canvas, at the Roswell Farmer’s Market in Roswell, GA. Direct inquiries for this painting to begreen@roswellfarmersmarket.com
portrait of Tommy the orange tabby
November 21, 2012
Just completed this commissioned oil painting of a cat named Tommy. The source photo I based his face on was taken while the aforementioned kitty was grooming himself so the tip of his tongue was showing. But the angle of his neck and shoulders was odd for the composition so I used a second photo of Tommy’s body that was a more pleasing view. The end result can be seen here:
12″x 12″ oil on canvas
sold
Day of the Dead
October 21, 2012
So for the upcoming Mexican holiday Dia De Los Muertos, I volunteered to paint a panel that will later be assembled with other panels forming a mural of skulls to be displayed at Atlantic Station in Atlanta on the 4th of November. If you are in town for the event, see you there.
24″ x 24″ acrylic on board
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