not for sale

6×8 0il on canvas panel Here’s one of the sunset landscapes I mentioned. Neither of which will go up for sale. I stole them from portions of a painting by David Koch, whose work I greatly admire. When I do studies like these, they’re for my own learning process and not for the money. So they’re not signed or available. I copy from work that I admire, now and then, for the sake of a close look at things I want to incorporate into my own painting. Also, I find it useful to identify exactly why and what it is that I’m studying, and then try to do it my own way. Trying to make a literal copy is boring work. It was great fun putting all these glorious colors together, but the tendency is to way overdo it. Anyway this is what got me started experimenting with trying to use the high saturation colors. Making it work requires restraint. If all the colors are strong and bright it’s just chaos. Darks and neutrals are the necessary contrast.

Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. (Isidore Ducasse)

Steal from everyone and copy no one. (Charles Movalli)