RMW Ramblings

  Small Black Set 2. Octopus Another from my set of six , Octopus is highly stylized, an imagined aqua-toned creature amidst fantastical coppery sea grass.

  Small Black Set 1 Crows Last weekend during the rain I did six small (4x6in) paintings on black grounds.  I used a very limited palette: aqua, ultramarine blue, white, black and metallic copper and gold. To display them I repurposed some old snapshot frames by spray painting them matte black. Here's the group and the first painting, Crows.  

  PS DuPont High School Last night was a 69th year reunion dinner for my 1955 PS DuPont High School class. I didn't make it, but I'm looking forward to our 70th next year. Here's a painting I did of the school I did as a door prize for our 50th.  

Ristorante Attilio When Mary and I make a last minute decision to go out to dinner, frequently Attilio's, an informal family Italian restaurant in Wilmington, is our default choice.   We often run into friends, sometimes ending up joining them for dinner.   The place sees old couples, young families with kids just after their sports event, office groups, and multigenerational family birthday gatherings.   The room joined with our family in a "Happy Birthday" sing there for my 80 th birthday in 2018. When the place is busy enough that we need to wait for a table we often park at the kitchen end of the bar and try to stay out of the way of the busy wait staff.   One evening I snapped a few pictures while we were standing there which I later used to reconstruct the hubbub in this painting.   I gave Mary and me seats in the foreground, and Gabriella was behind the bar, but otherwise the background crowd and the bar denizens are made up. I signed the painting wi...

  The Gardener The Gardener, a 4x6 acrylic sketch framed with scrap moulding from an earlier project.

 Carl Larsson Art With My Remarques Carl Larsson was a turn of the 20th century artist in the spirit of the Arts & Crafts movement.  He is best known for his depictions of domestic life at his family's home, Lilla Hyttnäs in Sundborn, Sweden.  We have visit his home, now a museum, and have a collection of books of his art and life, and several prints of his art. I made two large prints from images on a Larsson calendar which I scanned and printed at high resolution on an oversized printer.  Since the aspect ratio of the images did not correspond to that of the frames I was using, I provided an oversized border on one edge of each and painted on each my own remarques in Larsson's style, themed from details in Larsson's painting.  I've never heard of prints being remarqued by other then the original artist, but I suppose that some have been fraudulently done and passed along as being from the artist's own hand.  I had no intent to deceive; these were don...

  Rockford Centennial Remarque A remarque is a small painting or drawing added by the artist to the edge of a print to customize it. I recently did remarque sketches on a few of my Rockford Centennial prints from 2002 as a fund raising donation.