by Nicholas Wilton | Feb 13, 2009 |
This idea of crappy painting in the beginning always reminds me of Anne Lamott, the Bay Area writer who said “I always do a shitty first draft” I think about that a lot when beginning a painting. It’s much easier and in the end, because you don’t care, there sometimes...
by Nicholas Wilton | Feb 12, 2009 |
In the beginning I just lay down whatever I am thinking about… trying not to judge whatever it is or wether it looks good or not. This painting is at the stage that I don’t really like too much of what is presently there. It feels simplistic, thin and overly...
by Nicholas Wilton | Feb 2, 2009 |
This is where I ended up. This was an interesting painting for me. The darks had to be really strong as they are not particularly dynamic shapes. I wanted the eye to bounce around and then have the quieter elements softly converse… Two conversations going...
by Nicholas Wilton | Jan 26, 2009 |
A recent article, passed along by a friend, written by Malcolm Gladwell (The Tipping Point), illuminates this idea that some artists are fiercely direct and quick with their art. No experimentation, no search- just an incandescent manifestation of work–Picasso. On the...
by Nicholas Wilton | Jan 19, 2009 |
I am staring at this painting on the bottom and I can’t figure what is bugging me about it for the longest time and then I realize it’s the colors. I hate when a painting starts going red white and blue. I don’t know what it is about those colors–I even like our flag...
by Nicholas Wilton | Jan 5, 2009 |
This is a detail from a painting I just finished. Sometimes parts of paintings are better than other parts. This kind of density of surface is what I am after. Shapes and forms disappearing and emerging simultaneously. Similar to life…memories fading and new...
