Bukowski Painting- The follow up....

William Bukowski
Strawberries 2004
oil on linen

This is the follow up to-things that make you want to paint. I have always felt that this kind of still life will always inspire me to pick up a brush. It is influenced by a Manet still life from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It is all about the energy of the brush as it recreates the surface of a berry.

Bukowski Painting- Makes you paint....

William Bukowski
oil on linen

Melons 2004

There are certain things that bring out the painter in me. In my youth, I was influenced by Manet and some of the great brushstroke painters. I have always liked working from life and simple still lifes by Chardin, Manet, Morandi, and some of the Dutch artists urge you to paint, they beg you to paint and finally they make you paint. In real life, a bowl of strawberries can make you paint any day, and of course how about a few slices of melon?

This painting was in my show at Bethany Lutheran College, called "50 at 50" in 2004.