• On The Road 42

    /Users/frederickstanuga/Desktop/Vol 34 No 4 Final On the Road 42.pdf

  • BACKLIT

    BACKLIT

    UNTITLED
    65X55
    OIL ON CANVAS
    2024

  • Covering the dead paintings with drapery

    Covering the dead paintings with drapery

    Covering the paintings that have died with drapery to bring them back. Untitled Oil on Panel, 20x24, 2021.

  • THEY MET WHILE DANCING, THE BISHOP AND THE QUEEN. FIN

    THEY MET WHILE DANCING, THE BISHOP AND THE QUEEN. FIN

    THEY MET WHILE DANCING, THE BISHOP AND THE QUEEN
    Oil on Canvas, 9'0" x 8'0", 2021

  • PROGRESS FIN

    PROGRESS FIN

    UNTITLED Oil on Canvas 9'0" x 7'0"

    Finished.

  • PROGRESS VIII

    PROGRESS VIII

    Progress continues as paint is layered and shapes are found. This is all pretty wet now and will need to set up.

  • PROGRESS VII

    PROGRESS VII

    The grisaille continues with progress on both paintings. The drawing suggests much in the real world, an artist friend taught me a new word that describes the process, Pareidolia. The tendency to recognize things like animals and architecture in places where they are not, like clouds. These to me are my walk through the interior landscape. Mixing and grinding paint for a big week of painting.

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    #Interiors,#Collectors,#Curator#museum,#Gallery,#Commercialinteriors,
    #architects

  • PROGRESS VI

    PROGRESS VI

    Line layout for new piece and progress on the first one, solidifying shadow and light sources.

  • Progress III

    Progress III

    Taking shape slowly.

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    #Interiors,#Collectors,#Curator#museum,#Gallery,#Commercialinteriors,
    #architects

  • FPII

    FPII

    Beginning to block in areas of shadow and highlight. 7/32/21

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    #Interiors,#Collectors,#Curator#museum,#Gallery,#Commercialinteriors,
    #architects

  • Follow Progress On These

    Follow Progress On These

    Two stretched on the wall with hide glue and titanium ground applied, will now await drying. Check back here to observe progress on these beginning the first week of August.

  • Testing for Scale

    Testing for Scale

    This is a test of size and weight to find the best solution for the next series of works. The painting is from 2020, Oil on Linen and this scales to 120" x 96".

  • KILLER WASPS ATTACK

    KILLER WASPS ATTACK

    Typically I will ground the canvas with lead white over hide glue and then drawing and paint the image completely with (as here) Raw Umber that I have have ground myself. In some cases the underpainting or Grisaille is a place where I choose to stop, as I have here. This painting is 63 x 79 inches on linen.

  • To a Go-Go 2020

    To a Go-Go 2020

    I have used the time quarantined to explore grinding my own colors and applying more traditionally sound methods of application to the painting. Slowing the process gives time for all that surrounds us in the news and in our terrified souls to find a way into the paintings adding a visual language to the feelings generated by social and personal upheaval. To A Go-Go, thoughts on meeting downtown to let them know how we feel, Oil on Linen 70x80, 2020.

    Note, this found a new home!