about Mark Rothko, not really
. . . about me .
Painting the ancestors 2025
the ancestors i plan to begin with are the ancestors i know from experience, in my life. the first drafts are, my mother, my father and my grandmother Maywhort. i plan to decide on all the specs. concerning the material choice for the paintings later this year. as it is my painting season may be somewhat interrupted for now .
ancestor #1
ancestor #2
ancestor # 3
about Mark Rothko, not really, . . . about me .
after the pandemic hit in march of 2020, i discovered a lot more on youtube that were video's of educational interest to me. everything from the Feynman Lectures to . . .
The Museum of Modern Art- how to paint like series
https://www.youtube.com/@themuseumofmodernart/search?query=how%20to%20paint%20like%20
Mark Rothko was one of the artist who was covered in a demonstration of methods and process series i watched. i was very excited and challenged to adapt his principles, (as supposed by the teacher), and experiment with my goal, (i can't know Mark's goal), to separate the space on the page so that sections appear as separate fields in space .
painting is an enjoyable experience for me. and the experience of learning new things to do with paint was fun . over a couple years of playing with the edges of space i have become engaged with the concepts of thought, memory, idea, being a part of my being, that occupy space in my experience.
last year i produced a couple paintings prompted by the idea of nothing. it began as a zero. it transformed into a dot in space. the experience painting it, searching for the edge of nothing on the space of the page, is very rewarding to me, physically and emotionally.
when i thought about the ancestors as a subject, i decided to explore further my discovery of the edge of space, the edge of experience, in the execution of these paintings
most recent painting
new start
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