I do not often work in large scale. I do like to try new things and keep the juices flowing with occasional experimentation.
This piece is 20×30. I did it in old school fashion, utilizing scissors & glue sticks on a cardboard box. Some of images are photos I took myself then printed off multiple copies of to cut up.
I am very pleased w/the results.
Regardless of subject matter, I always like my work to give the sensation of the viewer as voyeur to something.
If you take footage of someone, whether they are crying, laughing even just talking, looking at the action one frame at a time the face distorts. There is a difference, sometimes drastic, from how it looked even a few frames beforehand. A neck will swell out, the nose seems of a different shape. The difference can be markedly different, each frame going towards forming a crowd of people who look similar but not exact as can occur within a family.
I decided to do a short series of 3 panels each 9×12 sequentially of a scene. I achieved the effect of what I was viewing.
Last drawing of ’19. New Year’s Eve.
“You cool?”
“I’m cool baby.”
“Cool??”
“Like Miles at the Isle Wight Festival.”
The sirens screamed but now it was not a song for me.
W.Wolfson’19
9×12 Quick sketch
Everyone’s face is akin to a great symphony. In constant flux, this ever changing canvas upon which we paint our feelings, secrets and ambitions never ceases to fascinate me, nor compel me to capture it. W.Wolfson
Watercolor & Paper 5.5×8.5
The shock on their faces as she broke into her famous sabre dance, then after we ate kabobs while listening to the soft laughter of the rain hitting the streets and the murmuring of a phone left off the hook.WWolfson
9×12 Watercolor & Multi Media Paper
“This, the face in the mirror” he waved his hands in a soft circle as if starting a magic trick or trying to grasp an intangible abstraction.
“Your pencil getting all this boy?” I eyed the chessboard, but my hand was busy. The pencil glides. I always did.
W.Wolfson
9×12 Quick Sketch
After painting for a few years and garnering some chops, i notice that while my voice is ever present in my work(s) different paper have their own inherent properties. The characteristics each paper brings to a piece is akin to a spice intentionally added to a dish for a desired effect.
Here are two pieces I did in same week:
“Hey” 5.5×8.5 Watercolor & Paper
“Soak” 9×12 Watercolor & mutli media paper
I like my pieces to exude the feeling that one is a voyeur into a scene. I try to not rigidly state what the viewer is seeing. Pleasure, pain, either or so long as emotion is present.
7×10 Watercolor & French Cotton Paper
Drawings done while waiting for dinner or tea. I did not have anything in mind beforehand but after the fact thought of Goya. First and foremost, the duty of every artist is to create.
Graphite & Paper 9×12
I have been experimenting with executing larger pieces. For painting I had no idea if my technique would work. Also, I had never painted watercolors on easel. I decided to have a go at it. With zero pressure of a deadline or patron expectations, the freedom to experiment was an invaluable currency. What I discovered is that I can still utilize my technique but with the paper on easel had to work much slower than is my norm.
So here is my first go (ever) at this type of thing (both paper type and size). I was very pleased with it. In the end, I did not find it a lesser or transitional work. I will definitely do more large pieces, although with different type of paper.
“Hair Fin” Watercolor & Paper 22×30
Paper Life Painting 