"Dear Lon,
I paint, if that's what you would call it, daily as it is too hot to make sculpture, given the money involved. So I paint, rarely using a brush other than to slush stuff around - trowels, brayers, buckets are more my thing. This particular work, if that's what you'ld call it, is bentonite/water slurry mixed with latex paint for a ground (really thick at the bottom), followed by spar varnish (by the quart) mixed with phlatho, cerulean, and prussian blues. I hope to get about 1/2 inch of glaze. Might include some sheets of plexiglass in there just for bulk. I am looking for the sort of deep transparency of water and the roughness of earth like you get in the keys.
I expect to use chrome paint near the horizon, and have a minimal landscape, pale turnesque sky up top later on in the week. I try to start three canvasses a week.
Alex"
I tend to paint flat, wet, and thick, troweling and pouring, seeing what sort of action I can get out of paint as paint itself. My works are somewhat pictorial, sea scapes I suppose, but that is really just a format, and not important in itself. Note my trusty Morris Traveller in the background, a source of daily inspiration.
I think this is a good example of what I am going for, maybe Alberto Burri meets Mark Rothko, Clifford Still and Barnet Newman at the beach?
