Available from the Billis Williams Gallery.
Posted October 19, 2024
Showing posts with label Cameras. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cameras. Show all posts
Revere Eye-Matic 8mm Movie Camera
Available from the Billis Williams Gallery.
Posted October 18, 2024
Bolex Paillard 8mm Movie Camera
Available from the Billis Williams Gallery.
Posted October 17, 2024
Wollensak 8mm Movie Camera
Available from the Billis Williams Gallery.
Posted October 16, 2024
Jiichan's Argus C-3
8"x 12" oil on canvas
Available from the Billis Williams Gallery.
Posted September 18, 2024
Tower Camera
4"x6" oil on panel ••• See next post for the commentary that went with this email.
Posted September 15, 2020
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 • Anyway, I am so far behind that the commentary that went with this painting is too far out of date to post here on the blog.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
Kodak Teague Box Camera
34" x 26" oil on canvas ••• Here is another piece from my show currently hanging at the Brittany Davis Gallery. ••• This camera is a special one for me. It took me several years to find one in good condition and at a reasonable price (yes, I am cheap—it is called being an artist). • It is so special that I ordered a custom canvas for it with the idea of using it to expand my box camera array. By adding this piece, the display extends out another row, about 14 inches, making the overall array over nine feet wide (see picture below). ••• If pressed on the issue—and make no mistake, it is an issue—I would guesstimate that I have over 80 box cameras in the studio alone. I do not dare go into The Logan Manse and count what may have migrated into there. Like I said, it is an "issue," and no, I am not seeking therapy for said "issue."
Posted May 10, 2020
Sawyer's Nomad 620
8"x12" oil on canvas ••• I do not normally share detail shots of these smaller pieces, but I had the pictures, so here they are (see below). • Look upon it as evidence that I waste as much paint on my smaller pieces as I do on the larger ones. Yes, I am a paint hurler. ••• People often ask me about my technique. They also feel free to forward their defining thoughts on the subject. I have heard everything from it being like a mosaic to being a lot like digital work. I smile and nod, trying not to show that I have absolutely no idea what they are talking about. When really pushed for an answer, I just say "spackling" and leave it at that. • In the end, I guess I am just happy that people take such an interest in my art. My attitude has always been, "Hey, I am just happy to be here (above ground)!"
Posted January 14, 2020
Silver King
4"x6" oil on panel ••• A while back, I started receiving emails from an online publication called VoyageLA. Several artists had suggested I would make a good subject for an interview. Considering that I find myself the most boring person in any room that happens to contain people, I disagreed with the notion. But they persisted in their campaign and more people kept bringing me to their attention. In the end, I relented and the result is the interview you see below. • If you want to learn a bit more about me, take a moment to peruse it.
LINK TO MY VOYAGLE/LA INTERVIEW
Posted December 8, 2019
Painting available at the
George Billis Gallery
Kodak Folding Camera
20"x16" oil on canvas ••• Unlike the ten billion box cameras I have, there are only three of these collapsible cameras residing in my studio (at present). • Collecting more of these cameras would probably lead me to insanity and debtors' prison. There are so many different types of these folding cameras—they may be wonderful but they are also legion. And, whilst I may already be morally bankrupt, I do not think The Spousal Unit would appreciate me becoming monetarily bankrupt as well. • If you wish to view this painting in person, it is hiding in the back at the George Billis Gallery in Culver City. It is a great gallery and they would be more than happy to show it to you.
Posted November 15, 2019
Jiichan's Mamiya
6"x4" oil on panel ••• (As promised, here is the second piece from my email twofer.) My painting ideas tend to not verbalize well. When I try to explain an idea I have in my head for a painting, it is often met with a look of "Why would you want to do that?" or the ever popular "Are you sure?" stare. Imagine me pitching the idea for the painting I sent you a few weeks ago: "Hey, Honey. I want to do a five foot wide painting of a toy space gun!" Even if I tack on a boyish "How cool is that?!?!" the idea flies like a dead mallard. (I know verbalize is not the best way to put it, but it is the term I use.) • Even the idea of doing a painting of a violin fell flat. So, I acquired one and made The Spawn give it to me for Father's Day. (Yes, I am a bad dad. It is a documented fact.) And the looks I got when I said, "I want to paint a scuzzy alley in Chinatown." I guess I could have dropped the "scuzzy," but the alleys in Chinatown are scuzzy, so why hide it? • My ideas get no respect. • Even my own mother gives me the "Are you insane?" look sometimes. She will even chime in with a "Who is going to buy a painting of an old pencil sharpener? The colors won't match anybody's sofa!" • In the end, I can deal with the odd "Are you insane?" look, but when The Mother Unit re-gifted me one of my own paintings, that was a bit much. Actually, she did have a point. It didn't really match her bedspread.
Posted September 25, 2019
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