Quick note: I’ll be in a group show at Gallery 414 this year during Fall Fort Worth Gallery Night, which falls on September 12 this year. The show is titled “Twentysomething” – I assume because the participants will be 20 artists who haven’t previously shown in the space. Gallery 414 is located at 414 Templeton, just off University Drive and 7th Street. Thanks to artist John…
Ralph Art Website relaunched
Woo hoo! The new Ralph Art website is now officially live! I cut over the DNS for https://ralphwordpress02-ralphart.rhcloud.com a little while ago, so now the redesigned site is the one you’ll see when you go there. If you are curious or bored, the old site, with all its warts and poor display on mobile devices, is still visible at http://old.ralphart.com. The last redesign (mostly just…
Artspace 111 2nd Regional Juried Exhibition
Found out last week that I had a piece accepted in the Artspace 111 2nd Regional Juried Exhibition – the Sleeper with Cat, painted earlier this year. The juror was Vernon Fisher, who I studied with, lo these many years ago at UNT. The exhibition will be open June 26th through August 7th with an opening reception on the evening of June 26th, from 5 PM…
New website!
Just doing the soft launch of the new Ron Crouch / Ralph Art website. For now the URL is http://new.ralphart.org. After I’ve made sure I’ve gotten all the rough edges sanded away I’ll be changing that to http://www.ralphart.org. The old site is still at https://ralphwordpress02-ralphart.rhcloud.com — haven’t quite decided what to do with that. I may eventually point that at *this* site. If you see…
Fear of bad art
The most debilitating thing from a creative point of view is what I call “fear of bad art.” It’s when, rather than make some piece of art that turns out badly, you’d rather make nothing at all. Guess what: that means you’re doomed to never make anything. You might as well admit it now and start selling your paints. Fear of bad art is really…
Titles
Once upon a time, I liked coming up with what I considered at the time “clever” titles. I aspired to have them be poetic, quirky, enigmatic, witty. At the time I was painting these big abstract color field paintings (this was circa 1974). Sample title from my undergraduate days: “Possessing not the dancer’s grace, I turn instead to wine.” Oh I loved that title. Better,…
A painting progression – Kipp
Finished a painting of my friend Kipp the other day which turned out pretty well. I actually thought to take progression photos along the way (smartphones are actually good for something other than texting), and thought it might be of interest to others to see how a painting takes shape. First — I usually start off by doing an underpainting or sketch in burnt sienna.…
New Painting: Texting Women
After a prolonged period of non-art production, I’ve actually been fairly busy, comparatively speaking, since last December. The other day I finished “Texting Women” (title subject to change), which I started not too long ago. Apologies for the awful photo; it was shot with my cell phone. Done in oils, finished size is 30 x 40. Source: Ralph Art Blog