Old Woodie » Art Center Information

It was not Edward Hopper’s painting, Gas, that inspired my painting, The Old Woodie, but it was much of Edward Hopper’s works together that did. Edward Hopper was an artist in the Realist tradition, painting passionately his interpretation of the … Continue reading

For those that have been following my blogs, you know I have spent the past three months working on a painting I call the “Old Woodie.” Before beginning to paint, I did several thumbnail sketches and then drew the painting … Continue reading

My brother, artist, Lynn Burton, and I continue our conversation. This time Lynn took the lead. Lynn: All right, why is it taking you so long to finish the painting you call the “Old Woodie?” Richard: I do a lot … Continue reading

Well, I dug “old Woodie” out of the bin and decided to take the painting another day toward a finished work. At this rate, I should finish about this time next year. What my attempt today was to get the … Continue reading

Art Center Information is proud to present the following: This is a pencil drawing that I did of a photograph of my father taken back in 1949 filling up a gas tank of the automobile we nick-named the “Old Woodie”. … Continue reading

I hope for the sake of art information you artists understand what I am doing here. I am working on the “Old Woodie.  I hope as an artist you realize the importance of  the different stages that an artist goes … Continue reading

You ask what we’ve been doing at the Art Center Information blog sight all day.  Drawing and attempting to paint a color sketch for my future art, “Old Woodie”. The man pumping the gas in the picture is supposed to … Continue reading

I have been musing about this painting for some time (mostly in my mind…been procrastinating as far as working on it), but I decided to get started.  If you’ve been following my blogs, you know I draw as realistically as … Continue reading