Landscape for Godard

Landscape for Godard

3 canvases oil on linen

(in progress)

Just for fun, I did a three panel landscape and decided to follow a famous quote by Jean-Luc Godard, "a story should have a beginning, middle and end, but not necessarily in that order". I did each panel separately from the same image. When I came closer to finishing the work, I put the panels together out of the normal order and the results were kind of interesting. It still needs the final touches and framing but the patterns and space that result reinforce a kind of abstraction (tame by cubist standards).

Bukowskipainting.com

I have a new website: bukowskipainting.com

This photo is the header for the website but due to auto-editing you don't get the whole picture. Dave Norris took this shot in my office at Bethany Lutheran College for an upcoming issue of the Bethany Report. I like the image because there are some nice details that add more to the story. It also shows my office and the collection of junk that keeps me inspired. The website is a stripped down model based on templates and in house design formulas, but it is super easy to update and change. I hope to use it for more to feature my newest collection of available paintings.

Waiting....

Recently, I have been working on designs for possible images for the Children's Hospital in Minneapolis. I came across this image from the past. Julia was drying off from swimming and sitting in the sun with her little friend. This is only a watercolor study for a possible oil painting, but it would make a nice work for kids who are at the hospital. I have 6 or 7 other possibilities. I am waiting for the green light on this and other works.... We will see.....

In Christ Alone at Martin Luther College.

William Bukowski

oil on linen

He Died In Our Place

and

Jesus Is Among Us.

I have a couple of paintings on display at Martin

Luther College in New Ulm, MN. There is a show going on for the dedication of the new chapel on

campus. The show is a fund raiser for artwork to

decorate some rooms on campus. I did one painting with Christ standing on the campus of MLC. It is in the library and will be until the end of May.

Fun to find a few oldies.

When preparing to put out 37 years of painting in a show recently I had the fun of looking at some of my older works with a renewed interest.

What was I trying for here?

How did this turn out?

or maybe the most important:

Why do I still own this?

But it is all a part of the "short journey" as I called the exhibition. The top picture is a painting from my old office in the late 80s. The next one is from Greenville, PA a spot on the campus of Thiel College called, "East Acres" and lastly, Jenna at the cottage. They still hold up.

A good year for still life.

A Short Journey- an exhibition of paintings

at Bethany Lutheran College by William Bukowski. (ending March 30, 2010)

As I looked at my work over the years, I decided

to hang three still lifes that I still own, in a horizontal arrangement. These were all done in a fairly short period of time after my first sabbatical. The year was 1988 and I was coming off of a great trip with Pete beginning in Rome and ending in London. I tightened up the edges, put some high contrast lighting and added some kid drawings, some toys and some shiny objects.

Jeff decided to make an appearance in the top still life as the masked hero, Zorro.

Faces at 30 year show.

A Short Journey, Paintings by William Bukowski at the Ylvisaker Fine Arts Center, on the campus of Bethany Lutheran College in Mankato, Minnesota on display through March.

One wall of my show is reserved for portraits of the family. The cluster is hung salon style with works from 1977-2004. I had to leave many paintings out of the show.

There is one painting in the show that is not mine- but it is of me. Jenna painted me on a four by four foot canvas.