Summer session is over.

With conflicts like teaching, it is time to finish the summer garden paintings. It is harder than it looks to paint consistently at a site as the season changes. Some of the greens are turning orange and yellow already. I have to decide if I want to paint a dying garden. There could be something there, but would you want to contemplate the death of a garden in your house? or in your place of business? I suppose it could be in the great tradition of death paintings. They just aren't for everyone.

Bukowski Painting- Light and Shadow

William Bukowski

Light and Shadow

oil on linen   30" X 40"

This is a recent painting that shows my concern for light as it hits the edge of the path.  It is like a detail of a much bigger painting, or experience.  I like the way the soft grays change almost like the natural light one can experience.  

The path will look different next summer.  The park department is currently ripping up this path and laying down paving stone.  It will look really nice when it is finished, but it will pose new problems of perspective and space.

Bukowski Painting- APW Show in New York

The APW Gallery hosted a show called World of Imagination Volume 2.  The gallery is at 48-18 Van Dam St.  Long Island City, New York.  I decided to enter the show after being invited via the internet.   The opening reception was March 9, 2009.  I wasn't able to attend, but if you check out their website you can see a video of the reception.  A couple of my paintings show up in the picture.   I had 5 garden paintings on display.  Two if mine are in the second picture on the top row.

Bukowski Painting- 5 Square Feet

William Bukowski
2 Piece Garden,
3 Piece Garden
oil on linen- 5
1 foot canvases

I decided to put 5 pieces in a show at the APW Gallery- World of Imagination Vol. 2
Even though there will be thousands of square foot paintings, mine will be linked by image, paint surface and the fact that they fit together. It is Sibley Park in Mankato, Minnesota, still a part of my garden series.