Posts Tagged ‘Watercolors’
The World Seen Through the Postage Stamps of Donald Evans
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
In 1977, not long after I started working with hand-carved rubber stamps and printing with drawing ink, I had the idea to commemorate everyday objects with my own postage stamps. In coming up with this idea I was very much influenced by Claes Oldenberg’s sculptures, such as this one. (Question: how many of you are old enough to remember typewriter erasers? How quaint this is.)
Typewriter Eraser | Sculpture by Claes Oldenberg
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Tags: postage stamps, Watercolors
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Taking a break from oils for the moment
Friday, May 22nd, 2009
I’ve been thinking for several weeks now about changing direction temporarily with my paintings. I did this nice painting about a month ago:
Lakeside | 2009 | Stephen Springer Davis
I’ve been frustrated for some that I so often have to do paintings from photographs. The last several times I’ve been to Maine I’ve had disappointing (read as rainy) weather. My brother Criswell generously flew me to northern Utah about a year ago, and to the amazement of me and local residents it was really cold with nasty rain, pretty much everyday. I have pictures that I took on our trip, but the scenes are guess what? Rainy. (more…)
Tags: drawings, Watercolors
Posted in Current work, Watercolors | 1 Comment »
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Hello.
I'm Stephen Springer Davis
I'm a pretty much self-taught and pretty much unknown artist and designer living near Philadelphia. The plan is to tell you about my artwork, why I do it, maybe how I do it, and also about other artists who've inspired me along the way.
My definition of the term "painting" will remain intentionally broad so I can talk about anything that interests me.
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