Venus. . . . .

. . . .of Willendorf. Not all paintings are done for galleries and collectors, sometimes they are just to play with ideas. Some see the light of day others get painted over. . ..

This piece was my way of exploring history and an ancient object, with specific thoughts on how valuable things get lost all the time and rise again to the surface.

I'll be putting up new work that will be in featured in my show in August.

August Show

I'll be having a show on the coast in conjunction with the workshop I will be teaching in August.
The Astoria Fine Arts Gallery has established itself as a great coastal gallery in a short time and I am excited to work with them.

Opening Night is August 9th from 5pm-9pm. The workshop will be Aug. 9th and 10th.

To sign up for the workshop go to www.dotsndoodles.com

Asian Pear

Here's another in the Life's Not Still Series. This was the first one I did, not entirely sure why I never put it up. There has been a clear progression, which is good to see.

I just finished a few more still-life's so they will be up soon, plus more genre scenes.

Sidewalkers

Here's a new one for June . . .as in June gloom season in Portland. Ok its not all that bad, but we could use a bit of the summer time vitamin D rays.
This one is 24"x36" oil on canvas. What can I say, I like the back of people's heads?!
I am doing a new series of paintings dealing with mostly interiors, public places, focusing on the movement of people and light.

Summer event:

On August 9th and 10th I will be conducting a workshop in Astoria on the Oregon coast.
I'll be focusing on a variety of subjects and methodologies in oil painting, as well as showing my approach. There will be a demo each day and I'll provide instruction and critique on a variety of topics. I will post the schedule and a link on the blog as soon as possible. Sign up will be kept to small number of participants, somewhere between 10-15. If you are interested and would like details please come back and check the blog for more info. Contact/Sign up info will be posted later this week.

I like This . . . . I don't like that. . . .

I have enabled my blog spot to handle comments from anyone, not registered bloggers and those patient enough to register, just to comment. which I have done so i know what a pain it can be.

Let me have it.

Tell me what you like or don't. All the feedback is helpful and appreciated, and will be read.

And as a reminder, the header and footer images are examples of my illustration work that will be unveiled later on in June.

thanks for your support.

Golden boy

Here is a little, 7"x14", portrait. . . . Other paintings are in the works.
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Heads Up

Just a little insight into the new monthly header and I've also added, a footer image to the blog. . . . . oooh! impressive huh!

They are both digital and look like some of the t shirt designs I have been making, although I doubt these two will ever be seen on 100% preshrunk cotton. Those designs should be unveiled soon and t-shirts will be made available.

The blog has been a bit slow as of late but I've been to New York, Bermuda, and San Fran all in the last month, which means I' ve had less time in the studio to paint.

Some new images should be popping up in the next couple of days.
thanks to everyone who looks at my blog . . . which is joe Cross, see his link to the right.

Life's Not Still . . . .

More fruit 'portraits' . . . . I just got back from Bermuda and New York City, still getting into the swing of things.
I'll give a run down of what I saw and a little insight into the art that I checked out, talk about stimulating the brain, it was brilliant.

more more more soon.

Life's Not Still cont.

Here are a couple more fruit 'portraits.'
As I paint I remind myself of the fruits' origin and its life cycle. . . . .
. . . . . eventually the skin of the fruit reminds me of a human's skin, which is another analogy that helps me push beyond the mundane.

Then they are my snacks when I am done.

Life's Not Still

Life's Not Still: A Series Begins.

As we swing further towards spring,
and I yearn for sunshine and warmth,
and its accompanying abundance,
when everything blooms and brightens,
I have been painting fruit.
Yes, . . .fruit!?

I've needed to work from life for a while now and it has been refreshing.
So, I've set out to bring a new twist to a classical subject.

I have been trying to make a fairly static object breathe with life.
A piece of fruit ripens and withers over time, even after its plucked from a tree; so it is changing in front of our very eyes, like humans. An apple lives, dies, embodys centuries old symbolic ideas, and has been a mainstay in still-lifes as long as painting has been around. With this concept in mind, I want these little portraits of fruit to embody those thoughts, and to be just that, intimate personal portraits.

Here is my first attempt at this new series.
The fruit will be kept lifesized in my paintings and thus the canvases will all be quite small as well.
This first one is 6"x6".

Give me feedback about the paintings or your insight in to fruit.

I'll be posting more later this week so check back in, then I am off to NYC, then Bermuda for a wedding, then back to NYC! Should be fun.

Nouvelles Peintures

A little still-life, 16"X20" on gessobord™. It was nice to work from life and deal with changing lighting conditions. I had to work with a sunset over the course of two evenings, then finish it from memory. The chinese horse is a two hundred year old replica of a thousand year old original. Whoa! I lugged this 30 lb. thing all the way back from Shanghai. It was an unbelievable gift from a great family who I befriended on my trip. If they happen upon the blog I want to say thank you again for the gift. It is a proud reminder of travel, friendship, and ancient art. The flowers are Camelias, from a truly lovely woman's garden. The hand carved wooden chess pieces are from a set I bought when Kracow, Poland years ago. Sort of an international flair to this painting.

As for the old man painting, which is also 16"x20" on gessobord™. I have continued my theme of little genres scenes from my China trip from a few years ago. There are bird sellers/owners who take their birds to market or take them out to the parks each day. They carry them one on each end of a stick. I envisioned this old man from the outskirts plodding into a more urban area. Really more of a vignette, as opposed to an entire scene. This painting has some parts invented, others from memory, all rolled together with my reference. These genre scenes let me connect to a world wholly different from mine and it allows me to reflect on my existence and what I am doing here, in Portland. Perhaps in a way I wouldn't have otherwise.

Thoughts are always welcome. Keep checking in for more work. There will be other visual ideas on here besides the fine art. I am working on a line of illustration based t-shirts with a friend and will post the original illustrations on here in the near future. Then later on the designs as they appear on the tees. Plus other random imagery.

Art Lookers

Couple of new paintings for the beginning of March . . . . I can't believe it's already March!

Both are keeping with painting smaller canvases and moving through a ton of ideas faster. The scale allows me to constantly make subtle changes in my approach to each idea, and see the outcome without a whole lot of fuss.
Each one is 12"x16".

More Day Dreams

More paintings of places far away.

Wanderlust Paintings

people, places, things,
memories,
double back on themselves.

the unconsidered,
the over considered,
those not unearthed.

From what it once was,
to what it shall never come.
scintillates.


All of these paintings are oil on board and 11"x14" if you cared to know, (some people want to know that kind of stuff, so there you have it.)

I have been thinking about travel lately, so these go some way to placating me, since I can't right now.

It's 2008!

Things are rolling along and I be putting up new paintings soon! . . . . . . . . and some other stuff.

October Show

I have a three man exhibition up this month at the Lawrence Gallery in Portland, with two of my good friends, Mark Bailey and Terence Gasca. We all had ten paintings on display and overall it was a really good show.
Here is the work I have on display minus one that was a work in progress, I hope to get it up soon, but for now the most important things are the paintings. The blah blah blah about the event will come later.

'Geisha Portrait Traditional' 12"x12"

'Geisha Portrait I' 12"x12"

'Geisha Portrait II' 11"x14"

'Geisha Profile' 16"x20"

October Show Continued

'Geisha Portrait Informal' 16"x16"

'Geisha Portrait Formal' 16"x16"

'Theatre I' 36"x48"

'Theatre II' 36"x48"

'Theatre III' 36"x48"

Digi - Sketch

This one is a work in progress, it will be reposted in the future, in a grander scale.

Pajamas

"Two posts in a week", you say, . . . . what's got into you Josh?, you ask. "Have the stars aligned, is it a leap year, is the earth going to end?" All are likely scenarios. "Is that what has caused you to put up not one, oh no, but two, yes, two new things going on at Studioflint in the same frickin week?!" "Is it Christmas or have I won the lottery, for such great events to happen." you retort. I reply, with a sly smirk on my face," no, however, if these things happen it still wouldn't get me to elaborate on what I have been up to." So, instead of blah blah blah, I will proceed to keep the lights on here at Studioflint, so you can all see what has been happening, and in some cases not, maybe you will want to twiddle your thumbs with me.

On another note my more formal, if that's what you can call it, website: www.joshuaflint.com, is no longer available on this series of tubes I call the interwebs. I am working on a new incarnation and as it develops I'll keep you in the dark , well at least until its done, then you can tell me how much better someone else's is. Then I'll change this one to be cooler and then another person will say " oh, but did you see that one," and I'll say ," no, that is cool." Then after checking that one out I'll tell you all of a new project I am working on , only for that one to go live, and then . . . . . . . . . . . .you know. . . . . it will be fun . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . .see you then.

Enjoy it here cause I'll be back soon.

Nude in the 21st Century Show

I am in a show this month, at the Oregon coast, in the lovely city of Astoria. The exhibition is titled The Nude in the 21st Century and will run from April 3rd to April 27th at the art gallery associated with the local college. As you can see my painting also featured on the mailer, along with 4 other artists, to represent the show, which was a nice honor. I know the participants are from 13 different states and four continents, so I'm sure there will be a great diversity of interpretations of the nude figure.
So go enjoy the Oregon coast as the weather gets warmer this spring and drop by the gallery for a look.

(If some of you couldn't tell or are new to the blog, my painting is of the man sitting in the chair, titled "Storyteller.")