Bob Cross - "Anytime Pilgrim" Acrylic Painting

"Anytime Pilgrim"
Acrylic and Charcoal on Gallery Wrapped Canvas.
28" x 22" Unframed.


Star Series Paintings

All seven were painted between July and August 2023, implementing an ongoing series of small drawings as a springboard. I am often asked when is a painting completed, and recently began wondering - when is a drawing completed?

I had been considering a group of written word paintings, and had prepared grammar school style ledger paper for the preliminary sketches, seeing them I instinctively drew a "star" in the upper right corner on some of the images, as I might have done in grade school, then continued following that thread. The 28" x 22" paintings examine this thought of using a symbolic shape as the subject.

The paintings textured surfaces raised some interesting technical challenges, and made it possible...

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