micci cohan 2010 painting

New Painting, “August Thrush”

August 15, 2010

I tacked up this delicious big piece of new canvas one night and it was when I started to feel more at home in the new studio over time the late night swipes and slashes with the brush dipped in many a color began.  With my head totally devout of any plan, what I call [...]

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“This Afternoons Rendezvous,” New Painting

July 30, 2010

I’ve been pushing lately to be more fluid, to paint faster and not to contemplate so much because I know this keeps the painting breathing, and alive more. I had been looking again at Toulouse Lautrec, mostly his paintings of the singers and dancers at the Moulin Rouge and absorbing the gestural brush work, the [...]

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New Painting,Swank Street

February 25, 2010

Swank Street, mixed media on paper, 44 x 30 inches, 2010

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The Parlour Girls

January 11, 2010

This is one of the paintings I just entered in “The Power of Self” (vote here) being held by Artist Wanted A competition about the potential of self-portraiture. From Salvador Dali to Cindy Sherman the self has been the subject of all the art world’s greats. The self-portrait transcends medium, style and period, existing in [...]

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