The Day's Work - Paintings of C. Litka: March 2019

Sunday, March 31, 2019

March 2019 Paintings

18x24" 45x60cm acrylic on hardboard Sunlit Fields

12x24" 30x60 cm acrylic on hardboard Misty Morning Street

12x24" 30x60 cm acrylic on hardboard Rainy Day Scene

12x24" 30x60cm acrylic on hardboard Another Misty Morning

12x24" 30x60cm acrylic on hardboard Crabapple Blossoms

Cover for my 2019 Novel, Sailing to Redoubt

The ebook version of Sailing to Redoubt is available for free, except on Amazon stores outside of the US where it is $.99 in local currency. It can download from these fine ebook stores:

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The trade paperback version is $12 and is available from the Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other fine book store web sites.

Saturday, March 2, 2019

February 2019 Paintings

18x24" 45x60cm acrylic on hardboard Sunset on Lil Lon

18x24" 45x60 cm acrylic on hardboard Reed Bank Street

18x24" 45x60 cm acrylic on hardboard Spring Once Again

What I'm Up To

I think artist’s statements are largely needless. Paintings speak for themselves. And yet, here I am set to rattle on about my approach to painting. Now, if you're of the same opinion as I claim to be, skip this and enjoy the paintings, but if you want a hint as to what I’m trying to do, here’s the words.

I approach painting via two different roads that arrive at the same place. The first is that I paint only “studies” or sketches. Back in the day artists painted quick studies to get the colors and features down to use as a guide to paint a finished studio painting. Funny thing is of the paintings I’ve seen together with their studies, I’ve always preferred the loose and spontaneous studies over the stiff and polished finished painting. For that reason I’ve chosen to paint only studies.

My second approach to painting is inspired by a quote from the writer, Raymond Chandler: “I guess maybe there are two types of writers, writers who write stories and writers who write writing.” He considered himself of one of the latter, as do I which is to say; writers who’s words are entertaining in and of themselves, independent of the story. Perhaps painters could be divided the same way: Painters who paint pictures and painters who paint paintings. While I don’t consider one type superior to the other, I aim to be a painter of paintings. I want to paint paintings that capture a moment, inspire or recall a memory or mood, but which, viewed longer or closer, or with one's glasses on, prove to be clearly paintings: paint brushed into shapes on a surface. That these mere shapes can create an impression they’re something else, for a moment, or at a distance is the independent interest I would like my paintings to possess, not because they realistically reproduce branches, or water or what ever, but because they don’t. What I don't want to paint is places or post card scenes, even though landscape are the medium which I use for my painting.

The Day's Work - Paintings of C. Litka

Sunday, March 31, 2019

March 2019 Paintings

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February 2019 Paintings

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