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Some Paintings From "Swampscapes"

5/30/2022

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The Kickstarter for Swampscapes is live HERE.

The painting to the left is on Arches paper (140 lb) 9"x6".

The first three pieces below   are  on Arches paper (300 lb) 9x12. The fifth piece is on Arches paper (140 lb) 9x6. Number four and six are both on Arches paper (140 lb) 12"x16."


The below are not quite finished. The first two are on Arches paper (300 lb) 9x12 and the third is on Arches paper (140 lb) 12x16.
A finished painting of clouds below...This one is Arches paper (300 lb) 9x12.
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The below pieces are on Arches paper in various small sizes. Most of these are not finished. Hard to take photos of them.
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New Watercolors/Gouache Paintings Of The Swamp

4/24/2022

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These are me getting back to doing some paintings. I revert to the Everglades/Big Cypress theme. But there are always variations on that theme. The painting to above is postcard size.
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This piece is a bit larger and on a smoother Arches paper I was unaccustomed to using. I will likely rework some of this...but it will be a little here and there. Not sure I feel like this is worth signing. Sometimes I forget to sign things I like even. The newer (ie from the past 18 years or so) paintings are all signed on the back. This is 12 x9 inches.

I also decided no one is ever getting an unframed painting from me again. Unframed small paintings get tossed in a drawer.
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All of these look better in person...This one (above) REALLY does. I tend to use watercolor, watercolor pencil (or just pencil) and gouache on most paintings. But this may be the only one here where I do that. It and the small one above are the ones I like. This is 9 x 6 inches (Arches).

I am going to do several of these and paint or find appropriate frames. If I get enough and I have met my previously owed paintings ( I still have some waited for oils)...I may do a kickstarter. I have killed most of my brushes and the cheap pastels I bought suck.
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Oil On Wood (As Usual Wine Boxes) Sky, Prairie, Mahogany

10/21/2018

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This oil on wood piece is another inspired by Everglades photos taken over a number of years. Originally there were no trees in this particular painting. I actually really liked it as that.

But then I fell prey to that terrible thing--doubt. "I wonder if other people are going to like it....what are they going to think? Is it boring?  It is a little odd because I rarely do this. SO I added trees and I immediately hated them. It took awhile for me to get to the point where I kind of liked them and forgave myself for adding them. They are, essentially two copses of mahogany trees that were in a different photograph.

Obviously I am not trying to depict actual things in any case but being inspired by something that exists is the basic M.O. I suppose here we are just combining two such things.
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A new unnamed (as yet) oil painting

5/10/2017

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I neglect this site....here is a new painting.  A gallery of new work will appear soon!
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Patrick Ogle Solo Show In Chicago (June 25) And Online At ConstantlyConsumingCulture.com

6/11/2016

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Wino is a collection of paintings on wooden wine boxes. It is open June 25 in Chicago at the Flatiron Building (1579 N Milwaukee Ave #220). The opening is from 2 to 9 p.m.  Wine will be served at 6 p.m.

The art is a mix of acrylics and oils and you can also see it online at constantlyconsumingculture.com too.
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New Oil Paintings And A Couple Water Colors 2014-15

2/22/2015

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It has been awhile since I posted any paintings but I have actually been painting. The recent stuff has mostly been oil but you will notice a couple of watercolors in frames I painted in oil.

The painting above is a small (4x4). I painted it to go in a little pre-Christmas exhibit of small art....but it wasn't finished.

The three paintings above are oil on wood--little pieces of I believe pine.  These are pieces of wood used to hold cheese plates sold at a local grocery. I salvage them. I don't gesso them or anything, just paint right on the wood.  The last one, of mangroves, may not be finished yet. The first one I was going to tinker with more but thought I might actually make it worse.
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I bought this piece of red oak (a scrap from a Home Depot) to use as a little table for painting watercolors while I was housesitting/catsitting and didnt want to ruin my friend's coffee table. I used it then it sat around for awhile and I painted some background color on it. Then it sat around some more unti I picked it up and started with some details. I had to (and perhaps have to) resist the urge to tinker with it more.
The two pieces above are 6x4 watercolors in little frames I painted with oil. The one on the right has been posted here before but I do not think the one on the left ever was.
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Some Everglades Paintings/Pastels/Pencil Pieces Finished in October/November 2014

11/7/2014

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It has been awhile since I posted any paintings. I am pretty sure I have done a few since the last ones I posted (so much for this being a chronicle of everything I do with an eye for changes and progression!).

The top painting is actually as much pastel, pencil and water color pencil as it is "painting" although there is certainly watercolor and probably gouache in it. The piece is on 9 x 12 1/8 inch Arches 300 lb watercolor paper. It is similar to some others I did and is based on any of a number of photos Ive taken in the Everglades and Big Cypress--which are often actually of cypress trees. But I sort of made them cypress . I called this one Mahogany. It has a sort of unfocused feel.

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The piece above is also watercolor, pastel, gouache, pencil and watercolor pencil. This one has more paint than in the Mahogany painting. It is also larger and is on 12 1/8 x 161/8 Arches 140 lb watercolor paper.  This one isn't based on anything and came out of my brain...It is sort of meant to look, in the background, what parts of the glades look like when you squint your eyes.  This one is cleverly called Trees 2014.

The piece below is also on 9 x 12 1/8 inch Arches 300 lb watercolor paper. This one is, so far, all watercolor and is not done. This is sort of the background for the painting. The top is more done than the bottom of this one.  It probably won't have pastel in it (but it might) but I am likely to add pencil and watercolor pencil...maybe some other things....I will post the potentially ruined altered version.
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New Big Cypress Paintings For Sale, You Might Even Get Them Before Christmas

11/20/2013

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This is one example of recent paintings I am doing based (loosely..very loosely) on photos I took out in the Big Cypress last year. I meant to get started on these earlier but..well I didn't!

The paintings  include the ones shown here (which are 7x10 1/4 or thereabout on 140 lb Arches paper) and some larger ones I am working on. The larger ones are on Arches 300 lb paper and others on Arches 140 lb paper. I will have photos (and the exact dimensions) shortly. I will probably just add them here so check back to this URL.

Of the first three (Here and in the post below) one is accounted for but the other ones are for sale. All of these here are $50 (unframed). I will frame them but with all the stuff I need to do that for these? Plus shipping (I hate shipping) The price framed would be $150 (including shipping).


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Big Cypress Orchid #1 NOT FOR SALE
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A New Series Of Big Cypress Paintings From My Most Recent Visit--Just Finished These This Month

11/6/2013

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After laziness and delay I finally got around to doing some of the paintings I'd planned from my last foray out into the Big Cypress. I walked 3 or so miles out into the swamp on a wet trail. You don't see many creatures out there, small fish, little snakes. Although, on the way back in I nearly kicked a water moccasin sleeping along the trail (these trails are in a foot to a two feet of water). That would have been unfortunate for both me and the snake.

These paintings are SORT of of the numerous tiny orchid that grow right in the water. They are really small, realy delicate...and these, of course, do not really look much like them. I used the photos of those as a starting point then the rest came out of my head.

They are how those orchids SHOULD look. There are also similar yellow flowers (that I do not think are orchids)....also lots of cypress trees and bromeliads.

I didnt see any gators but I did hear the sound they make when they are warning someone off...that "shake the water off their back sort of grumble they do. I didn't want to find out if it was aimed at me so I left.

These paintings are called Big Cypress 1, 2 and 3 (in descending order).

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You Can See Them A Bit Larger Here

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New Everglades Paintings Preparing To Do Paintings Based On Big Cypress Photos

7/1/2013

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So in preparation for working on some new paintings based upon photos I took this past winter in the Big Cypress I started doing some more swamp photos similar to the ones I did when I did my Everglades photos.

This first one (the photos above and immediately below) I thought was 7x 10..it is actually a bit larger and done on 300 lb paper. I was going to paint a single poisonwood tree in the foreground but for some reason I just liked this the way it is and couldn't bring myself to do anything else to it.

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The two below are versions of paintings I have done before of the everglades. They are based on photos of walking in the mahogany/poisonwood trees. The top is very similar to others I've done...the bottom is a cross between the close in 'forest' of mahogany and the plain paintings. The bottom one has a sparkle to it. I didn't name any of these yet. Any suggestions?
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