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Home Available from Denman Studios Available from Astoria Fine Art Available at Special Events Available from Greenwich Workshop Limited Edition Reproductions Archive of Previous Work About the Artist Contact Galleries Purchasing Information Commission Policy News & Events Newsletter & Mailing List Facebook Links	<Back to Thumbnails "Pick Up Sticks" 25 ½ x 41 ¼" Acrylic on Board, 2010 Black-Necked Stilts $7,800 How to buy Stilts are one of my favorite local wading birds. Like flamingos (another favorite of mine), they are a wonderful combination of the lyrical and the linear. With the elegant "s" curves of their necks and the hard angles of their legs and bills, I’m never sure whether they are graceful or gawky. Either way, they are fascinating to paint. In this piece, my main goal was to explore the explosive tension of converging and competing angles and lines. The contrast between linear and curvilinear form is echoed in the background and border with shapes suggestive, but not descriptive, of the stilts’ marshy home. Not only was I completely disinterested in painting "realistic" grasses, but the bold black, white, and red color pattern of the birds themselves felt very "mod" to me. That suggestion sent the grasses spinning off into a "Jackson Pollock meets shag carpeting" motif and inspired the luscious 1970’s flavored color palette.
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