Purple Chairs
This is from a friend's photograph. Bright sunlight through the vine on the wall
its always an adventure...
Friday, September 4, 2015
Monday, July 20, 2015
Friday, July 10, 2015
Summer Audience/ 4 Olives Bar
Summer Audience
4 Olives Bar
Just catching up on a few of my sketches. Summer Audience is from an old photo of Paris.
4 Olives Bar is from a quick plain air/part photo of a restaurant in Manhattan, Kansas.
Both done rather quickly
It's always an adventure...
Sunday, March 15, 2015
Lunch on Post Alley, Seattle
Lunch on Post Alley, Seattle
Sketched this from a photo I took last summerAt the Seattle Pike Place market, specifically down post alley at Cafe Campagne. I did a quick study pen and ink sketch on my spiral watercolor pad. Filled in the colors months later.
It's always an adventure....
Sunday, February 1, 2015
World Blog Hop
Thanks to my friend Don MacKay for his preceding me in this World Blog Hop experiment.
You all have seen this work. I'm working on one similar right now...
What am I working
on?
This month and next I am getting settled in my remodeled studio in our
house on Whidbey Island. I plan to do larger canvas work there plus
larger watercolors.
Presently I am working on 6 different works, mostly acrylics. I
am getting ready for my "Featured Artist" show at Parklane Fine Arts
Gallery in Kirkland, coming up this year during the month of June. The
theme of my show this year will be scenes in and around Paris, especially
street cafe scenes, day and nighttime moods.
How does my work differ
from others of its genre?
I have been experimenting with a number of techniques. I'm
self-taught. My style seems to be
emerging now after three years. People have told me that it's different from
others in that you can tell that I created it.
Why do I write/create what
I do?
My talent is a gift. I do it because I can, and it gives me deep
satisfaction and reason to be. I do it
to please others who enjoy looking at it.
How does my
writing/creating process work?
I create as a response to an emotion I get when I see the world around
me. Much of what I draw/paint is a creative desire to capture a mood or sense
of place and relay it to the viewer of my work so they can sense the emotion,
or better yet, to experience their own emotional response to what they see in
my work.
I often just think of what my response will be. I can't pick up the
brush or knife and paint for a few minutes. Painting for me is like wading into
a pool of time. I have to have a pool of time or it doesn't work. Could be a
couple hours or an afternoon of unscheduled time. And time ceases to exist when I'm in it. It's
hard to explain.
Viewing my work on this blog is a bit cumbersome in that it only allows
a chronological array. Go to my other site to see my works in groups. It is
easier to navigate and you can purchase prints of my work directly from
Artspan. http://www.johncannonart.artspan.com
Who will be next on the
world Blog Hop?
Kimberly Adams is a new
artist at Parklane Fine Arts Gallery in Kirkland.
Her oil paintings are made without
the use of brushes or tools using only her finger tips to apply the paint.
She Grew up in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado and now lives in
the Pacific Northwest.
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