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Category: Painting & Drawing
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An appeal to our higher (Christmas) angels
Art doesn’t have to be sophisticated, realistic, or “good” to have value. Self-expression, in any form, can be healing. In good times and bad, we can always create something. Art is a form of communication — with ourselves and others. Last year at this time, my Mom was not well. My sister and I were…
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I Pleiades guilty...
Last week’s Beaver Moon lunar eclipse captivated skywatchers all over Clark County — and much of the world — with good reason. It’s been 850 years since we’ve had the opportunity to watch such a lengthy (6‑hour) partial lunar eclipse, so setting a 4 a.m. alarm to witness its peak seemed reasonable to me. Truth…
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Untitled acrylic and plaster on canvas board
This painting, incorporating plaster, was a study in texture, perspective and color combinations. Plaster was used to build up the central portion into a mountain-like segment and the black shadow was painted on to define the built-up segment and to suggest varying heights between the colored sections, although all three colors are on the same…
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Untitled acrylic on canvas board
This painting is a 12″ x 16″, acrylic on canvas board. It’s actually a copy of another painting, although copies — except for those intended to be a counterfeit — inevitably contain permutations by the one doing the copy. Painting scenes of rain or precipitation create certain challenges but also opportunities, especially the use of reflections…
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For inspiration, just look down
We’re having a glorious fall, and wooly worms are everywhere. They lumber across our paths in their plush autumnal bathrobes, like once-a-year houseguests on their way to the shower. These elongated furballs are a joy to encounter — precisely the opposite of bathroom-bound bed heads — and they don’t try to make conversation before my…
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Chuck Witt: untitled 3
After resuming painting this still life was an examination of light and shadow. It shows a timidity of style while still working out the nuances of both and grappling with the proper balance of color and void spaces.
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Chuck Witt: untitled painting
I began painting again in early 2020 after a 50-year hiatus. Retirement offers greater opportunities to undertake such efforts. I am a lazy painter and prefer to work in acrylics, not only because they are less expensive than oils but because they are easier to clean up after a session, especially if one is using…
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Give yourself permission to create
I’ve always appreciated art but never thought I could make my own. Art-making required talent, skills, technique — none of which I possessed — so many years ago I gave myself a gift: permission. Permission to try. Permission to fail. In art, and in life. Permission, it turns out, is that rare gift that truly keeps…