The 101 Coffee Shop

24"x 16" oil on canvas

Posted April 8, 2023

sold • private collection

 

Kodak Instamatic X-15 Camera

16" x 24" oil on canvas ••• I transfer my commentary from the emails I send out to my subscribers to these blog posts. These blog posts are usually far behind the emails. Once you fall behind, it just keeps snowballing. • Anyway, I am so far behind that the commentary that went with this painting is too far out of date to post here on the blog. • The best way to keep current with my latest work is to subscribe to my emails at http://madmimi.com/signups/111163/join . The emails go out about once a week, but you cannot hold me to it. Sometimes I am doing other things like painting. I am a typical artist: I would rather paint than post. Please take the time to subscribe to my emails. • You may also follow me on FaceBook ( www.facebook.com/raymondlogan.artist ) or on Instagram ( www.instagram.com/raymond_logan_artist or @raymond_logan_artist ). But, as it is with this blog, so too it is with FaceBook and Instagram, I post to my email subscribers first.

Posted May 17, 2020

My WARDS Trim Saw

16"x24" oil on canvas  ••• (As promised, here is the second piece from my email twofer.) "This was a flagship piece at my solo show last March at George Billis Gallery.

Posted June 15, 2019



Ongoing Show

Dancing Colors
Paintings by Nancy R Wise and Raymond Logan
Show runs through June 19, 2019
Art in the Arthouse, Laemmle Theatres, Pasadena 673 East Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101 / 310-478-3836
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Smiley

16"x24" oil on canvas ••• Yes, I actually own a smiley faced pencil sharpener. Like so many things created by humans, it is kinda sorta neato and kinda sorta stupid all at the same time.

Posted April 12, 2019

Kodak Bullet

16"x24" oil on canvas ••• I have written in the past about my friend yellow. I stated that, if there was a wimp on an artist's palette, it would be yellow. Do not get me wrong, I love the color yellow, but in the world of artist pigments, it just so easy to beat up. • Now, if I were to look for a bully on the palette, it would most definitely be somebody from the Family Red. Red is so intense that it intimidates any color it lands next to or mixes with. Blue might calm you down, but red makes you edgy—it likes to announce its presence with authority. Heck, it even confounds all the 1s and 0s in a digital camera. • You may be asking why I am bringing this up. Well, take a look at the piece above. Painting a red background—in the manner in which I paint—is kind of like painting with a stick of dynamite in your hand. Everything is going along fine and then you throw down a shot of red and BAM! There goes the neighborhood. After and intense red moves in, it is a challenge to maintain your values. • My main issue with red is this: I cannot stay away from it. It is just so dang gorgeous. So, I inevitably find myself standing in front of piece thinking or yelling, "What the heck am I doing?!?! I know painting with red is like painting in a minefield, and yet, here I am again."

Posted March 5, 2019

Candy for Tish

16"x24" oil on canvas ••• I have painted my fair share of candy. And why not? Candy is one of the perks of being human. I have been tossing around the idea of painting a five foot wide painting of a Tootsie Roll. Hmm, a five foot Tootsie Roll (drool). • Where was I? Oh, yeah... I have painted my fair share of candy, but these vertigo centered pieces are a particular challenge. The only thing that would make it more challenging would be to put Jimmy Stewart's head spinning around in the middle. (Vertigo is a great movie, if you have not seen it, you should. It's considered one of Hitchcock's best, but if you have an issue with Alfred Hitchcock... never mind.)

Posted January 24, 2019

Western Electric Telephone

16"x24" oil on canvas ••• First off, I would like to apologize. As my feeble attempt at taking process shots illustrates, I am not good at taking process shots. Frankly, I am surprised I took as many shots of this painting as I did. Taking pictures is not a priority for me when I am slinging the goo. Slinging the goo is my focus when I am slinging the goo. (Sometimes dreamy thoughts of fresh baked cookies do sneak across my addled gray matter.) • Anyway, please take a look at my pitiful attempt at process shots below. • Process shots of my work are always going to be a little misleading. The fact is, I do not draw the same way all the time and I do not paint the same way all of the time. The drawing you see below is really just a smoosh of ultramarine blue to give me a general idea. The "drawing" then proceeds to be smooshed and pushed all over until, somehow, I come up with the finished piece. Granted, this is a horrible example of how to do a drawing before one paints, but hey, it is how I do it (sometimes). The drawing is not precious to me, it is something that I continue to manipulate as I paint, often destroying parts or all of it as I go. • Including process shots in this email forces me to include this disclaimer: DO NOT PAINT LIKE I DO. YOU MIGHT GO INSANE.

Posted January 30, 2018