May 30, 2005
Logos: May 2005-->Sept 2006 selections
This Winter Solstice LOGO was on the front cover
of my update mailer. I snail-mailed an epson inkjet
of this off to a round of archived addresses.
I've taken to scanning most recent images and a
few of much older LOGOS with a deep rich black
background and since the winter solstice there been
at least a dozen of newer LOGOS variations.
If you post your U.S.Postal address and there's a
signed inkjet print on its way. Do it with your Email
addresses and I'll learn how to answer them soon.
This stage
was painted on May 17th, 2006, the fifth year anniversary of Kitty's death,
though I was, as usual, marginally concious of the actual calendar date.
It began Tuesday
evening and then more on Wednesday morning. Tuesday all day was filled with
the painting classes I teach at the MFA, Wednesday evening and Thursday
morning are also teaching obligations at the MFA. It was the weekend before
the anniversary was given its thoughtfull moments and this second stage (above)
and a third painting into were done. Perhaps even more painting into will come.
During the
following week this different LOGOS VARIATION was started and as of today
Memorial Day taking these moments to 'blog' this is where they're painted up to.
From the Hawthorne Street Show and Sale this 5"square logos survived.
The five inch TJLyons handmade paper squares were a favorite during
the time my son Liam was dancing. LogosV's on these squares would date
from the late seventies.
The Hawthorne St. Show and Sale was the impetus of Vivian Taylor
and Tim Meiers in the studio urging me to bring watercolors to Market.
Vivian picked up a particularily intricate painting of a Harvard University
snow covered wrought-iron Stadium Gate image that must have had at
least one hundred and twelve hours into it and said,
"Bill I'd give you a hundred dollars for this"
and before I could respond with how prepostorous it would be Tim had already
picked up from a scrap pile a study for Yankee Magazine's Maine Guide Stroke.
He held a piece with a few quick gestural strokes done while I sketched
with brush and watercolors my wonderful Maine Guide Stroke model paddling
his tevlar canoe on a blustery spring day. One of several quick studies
it had been set down still damp, suddenly blown off the table, into the pond,
Julie retrieved it, put it back onto the table and put a rock on top of it.
Studying it thoughtfully while holding it upside down Tim said,
"This is beautiful,"
I'm sure he thought it night have been one of my orchid studies, the canoeist
was wearing a red violet windbreaker and his raised paddle over the light tan
canoe shape had combined with the puddling from going into the pond and some
odd speckling from the rock that stopped from being blown away again were easily
an OOPS-WOW* delight from my watercolor class instruction vocabulary.
"I'll Give you a hundred dollars for this wonderful painting"
101 Paintings for $101 each named the show.
Vivian, Tim, Bob and John very special friends picked at least thirty images apiece
out of the Studio. Any ones they chose. I could 'save' The Harvard Stadium
gate among many others but had to leave at least twenty five from each of
their thirty-five plus selections. We sold a third of them during a weekend show.
LOGOS:VARIATIONS / QUEST OR A SPIRITUAL RORSHARCH
After years of watching the paintings, inventing thousands* of variations of these
circular and triangular energies surge or shrink in world of wonderful watercolors,
Moods, or manoeuvers... clashes of values or darkening sweeps, simultaneous
contrasts or analagous schemes I was able to match patterns and life's moments.
*the essential motif first appeared in the late sixties
at the same time as the Titian Europa narrative