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A compendium of daily image making by Craig Stephens
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- I am an artist living in Northern California. In 1993 I graduated from U.C. Davis where I took classes from Wayne Thiebaud, Dave Hollowell and Roy DeForest. I currently teach high school art in Placer County California. On this blog I have posted 1000 paintings in as many days. I took a break from that strict schedule for a couple of years but since the beginning of 2014 I have been completing one small painting on a daily basis. The practice of completing a painting a day suits my disposition and aesthetic. I have also found that modeling this sort of daily practice for my students is important. I am making these paintings available on ebay. Thanks for stopping by and check back often if you like what you see.
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- lemon 5.5"x7"
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6 comments:
Very well done Craig. A subject near and dear to me. I'm wondering how you came upon the bird.
Thanks guys!
The photo has some glare because it's still wet and I'm not a good enough photographer to get rid of it :-)
I found the bird near a big window when I was walking to lunch. I assumed that it ran into the window and met it's end. After lunch I grabbed a paper plate and collected it for the painting. I felt bad for it but didn't want to take any chances with H5N1.
After "Viewing" by DK, I was really hoping not to stumble across another dead bird painting.
This is the same 'anonymous' again; feel free to delete the above comment. I tried to delete it myself, but I'm not able to. This is technically a good painting and actually better than Keiser's "Viewing"; it's just that it makes me upset to see dead animals.
It is certainly not my intention to make anyone feel bad with my choice of subject matter. I had already decided on painting something else when I came across the bird. I think it must have just hit the window when I found it. It was the saddest thing I'd seen all week. The challenge was to render it as faithfully as possible and hopefully capture some of its pathos.
Very nice. We all have to go sometime. It was nice that you honored the bird with this lovely painting.
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