Etched Shower door NYC: by gardega

I recently signed a shower door I etched many years ago for a client...

A carved glass David

I am working with an art gallery to carve some Iconic art pieces in glass...It made sense to start with David... This is the rough first sketch..Of course it has flaws but it is my first sketch when I "feel out" the piece...I do a lot of sketches when I work and I start sloppy and spiral to neat/ finished sketch. The plan is for a 6 foot final glass carving..

The Nobe Peace Prize

Gardega's Palette

Here is my painting palette... With these colours I can paint a pear or a person or a pumpkin or a pig or a petunia or a pony or a pimp or a pasture or a planet or a parent. Almost anyping...I dont follow any painting system, I follow my gut... I trust my gut infinitely more than any art teacher I have had in life.

Famous Pallettes, Famous Artists

http://www.retronaut.co/2011/01/pallettes-of-famous-painters/

(my pallette is always a big sloppy mess that looks like the Staten Island landfill but somehow I create order out of chaos...)

New Paint by Gardega

APPLE AND CICADA (more than this)

OIL ON PANEL 11" by 14"

for sale

Daily Gardega

I decided to attack a blank 3 x 4 foot, beautiful, stretched, blank canvas. I never tell the canvas what I want---it tells me..this one wanted to be a flood painting..this painting is called "after the flood" after all of my deluge painting, the awtaers become still and calm beneath a swollen moon and the soul survivor floats calmly, waiting for waters to subside to begin anew... This is my second largest flood painting...They are very much influenced by Zen and japanese "minimal zen art" It took me a long time to loosen up and not show everyone everything I know about painting in each piece..You dont have to prove anything to anyone except yourself...now I have to paint the boat and figure which must fit perfectly or painting fails!!!!

After The flood

3' by 4' oil on stretched canvas