Aug29
Posted on Aug 29 by Chuck Lathrop
As I have said elsewhere I as a painter and a printmaker I have always been a bit leery of photography seeing it only as a means to record an event or objects. The idea for this project came from me idly playing with stray rubber bands while I was doing something else. The shapes interested me and led me to consider photographing them. When I started doing just that the question of how to work...
Aug17
Posted on Aug 17 by Chuck Lathrop
I have just added a new gallery for 2015 – 2016 and posted new work in it. Take a look.
Aug14
Posted on Aug 14 by Chuck Lathrop
As I write this I am listening to Hermeto Pascoal’s “Slaves Mass.” Earlier this afternoon I was reading David Byrne’s book “How Music Works.” I had just finished a piece for a fundraiser when I realized that how I am painting now owes a lot to music. By adding brushstrokes onto brushstrokes in an assigned space, about 2/3 up the picture plane, my process is much like over dubbing in the...
Jul11
Posted on Jul 11 by Chuck Lathrop
Working on two painting that are a part of the Elegy for Heaven series.
Jul11
Posted on Jul 11 by Chuck Lathrop