Last Light

So this week was started with a pleasant surprise. I was notified that I was the featured artist on the Judson's Plein Air Journal. Here is the link:

http://www.judsonsart.com/blog/uncategorized/daniel-corey/

Can you believe it? I really like the fact that they used more obscure (personal favs) pieces in the article and even quoted me. Thank you Judsons! My Very first pochade was a Guerilla Box, (9x12" if you're a gear nerd.)
Just incase someone wants more info in those pieces you can find them hanging at Maine Art Gallery in Kennebunk Maine. The link to them is in the upper right hand corner of the blog.

The Piece above is a studio piece titled "Last Light" and is an odd 29x20"

Thanks for stopping by

Mellow Yellow

Just a quote today but it's a good one. I chew on this one a lot. Please feel free to comment/chime in and let me know what you think of it or the painting(untititled, 9x12").


"To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams."
Giorgio de Chirico

Sun Bleached 24x30

 Ok, I'm back. My off season abuse of the Blog is about over. I promise! This is a recent painting (Sun Bleached 24x30")  from near my new home area in Brunswick. I saw this pattern of darks, some great color and had to paint it. I actually didn't make it off my street while searching for a muse this day.

 As I write this, Maine is in the early stages of possibly a foot of snow, it is really coming down and looks beautiful. I wish we could move the holidays a little so the snow here would match up a little more with Christmas... Who's with me?  Lets move Christmas!!

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures"
 Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887

"Each painting has its own way of evolving... When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself"
William Baziotes

Rounding The Corner

Sometimes I'm into the blog and sometimes Im not. Lately I have been caught up in the preseason routine of deep thought and land snorkeling. This routine is something I try to escape all the time but it finds me, puts me in a head lock and takes my lunch money every once in a while. I'm finding the more I do this the deeper the level of "what I'm saying" in my paintings is apparent. At first I swore that "saying something" in a painting was for the rich kids in art school. Well, I'm admitting it here..I get it now.. Sorry rich kids! Nothing personal.

Speaking of personal, in case you didn't see the post I finally started a website www.danielcorey.com to abuse and ignore. On that website under "Candids in Instagram" will let you see images like the one above on my Instagram account without having to have an Apple product such as an IPhone. IPhones are usually the only way you can see instagram.

Winter Air

The Snow fall this year has been far below what I like to see for a solid snow painting season... I really feel like the snow is a great change in abstract shapes to paint and love how everything gets silhouetted by the snow also composition can become a fun game of connect the dots. The subtle color and value shifts of sunlit snow and getting to really use my cold pthalo colors in the shadows get me so fired up to paint snow.. I'm gonna have to cut this post short to go do a snow dance out in the street.

The piece above is at the moment untitled, 16x20" and from Weber and Son Lobster CO in (I think) Harpswell Maine.

Waiting on Spring

This morning when we woke up (at around 3am) I checked to the thermometer like usual to see if I need to go chisel the ice off my wife's car before she heads off to work. The temp was 41 degrees Fahrenheit! I'm not sure if fall is hanging around too long or spring is coming early something isn't right..?.

This piece Above( @ Camden Falls gallery) is a painting that makes me drift away into spring thoughts everything I see it so I thought I would share it here in mid January. Thanks for stopping by.

Back to the Drawing Board

This is a sketch on newsprint I did recently at the figure/life drawing group at the Boothbay Regional Art Foundation. I think it was a 15 min pose. Not sure. Ether way, I liked it enough to share and prove that I am trying to draw more (which was my failed goal last year).

Something that I have been pushing for finally happened.. My wife Raquele has started a blog including her original photography. Here is a link to Raquele's Blog . Her use of abstract shapes in the composition are lesson for most of us and worth checking out. Also I know that if you comment there, like me, she will respond to all. Worth checking it out!