Anthony Quinn's Black Watercolor Beach Art Works August 2008

I always take my watercolors, oil pastels and collage materials to create some art while at the week at the beach with my family each tear on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

Here are some of the black-and-white watercolors that I did. I hope you enjoy them. I'm always glad to do them and they do show a progression.

At first they are quite hard to do and I need to relax and get into the mediums head so to speak and see how it ( the watercolors ) tick. It's a challenge I embrace each and every year.

Enjoy as you remember back to those warmer months. It's Wednesday, December 17th ( now early 18th ), 2008 at 12:23 AM as I type this and post it. Time for bed sleepy-heads! Cheers, TONY

Faces Of People and Wine Bottles Taken By Me Through The Wine Glass 2008 Creating Endless " New " Possibilities

It will take me awhile to comment on all these pictures but in the meantime I want to post them in case anyone wants to see them now. I like what the glass and light and the clarity of the glass and the smudges on it as well as the various wines, liquors and beers do to the glass to distort/report/rearrange the images seen through it. What do you think? Do you like what can and does happen sometimes? Do you like things pretty straight-forward or do you like these " new " realities I've helped to bring forth and to our attention by chance, luck, planning, not=planning, with persistence, hard work and commitment?!?

It's Friday evening, 9:16 PM at home in Virginia on December 12th, 2008 as I type and proff this blog and now post it.

Cheers, and to many more. Believe me, this is just the start to a long, glorious, uproarious relationship with me, the glass and the world and the people/things all around me that I come into contact with once, often, rarely ... TONY

Art Through glass - faces /expressions

My Leaf-Bag Hay Stacks So-To-Speak This Fall 2008 Chez Nous En Virginie!

Just like Claude Monet the French impressionist painter that painted balls of hay rolled up for winter feed for the animals and left in the fields these are my homage to them : bags of leaves. They remind me faintly of Monet's paintings.

I realize that these are just photos of bags of leaves but I may be the first person to take pictures of them and ask you to consider them as some form of art.

What do you think? Do you think that I am on the right track? I think I may be. Anyway, it sure was fun to take these pictures, to study the individual bags and the collections of them lined up neatly at the edge of the roads and peoples' yards.

It's more their forms that speak to me and then the colors trapped as well as the shapes and textures captured inside just touching the transparent plastic. They are not food like the hay. I guess you could think they might be akin to tobacco leaves and that you could possibly smoke them? Nah! Not a chance!!

I did see some with amazing colors trapped just below the surface and touching the plastic. These are not the best pictures that I took but they can give us all some idea of what I may be getting at. I'll look at the other pictures later. Enjoy these for something hopefully different and compelling in an odd sort of way. What was he thinking?!? Bags of leaves at the curb?!? Must have lost his mind. Sad....

Cheers, and enjoy. Happy Holidays 2008 to one and to all! TONY

Mixed-Media Watercolors/Oil Pastels Done at Salvo, Outer Banks, North Carolina August 2007

     Here are some of the mixed-media pieces that I painted out on our upper deck looking out towards the ocean over sand, waterways, highway, green gnarled bushes and pines and low-to-the-ground red, yellow, white flowers, too. It was quite the vacation. I got beat-up by the wind, the sun, the elements of dryness and heat and sometimes splashes of sudden thunderstorms. I think these pieces reflect some of all of that. Enjoy.    TONY

India Ink Drawings Feb. 12th, 2007-Aug. 8th, 2007

I was given by my family some sketch books for last Christmas and I made a pact with myself to get sketching in all three or more of them and fill them up. Some of the abstract images are about life, others about wine, women, love and all of this together. Sometimes I drew some portraits and sometimes I would write the titles in French or English / even mix them up. It's free association/ being caught up in the moment - all from and in my head. Yes, I'd be inspired by something I would see or read but the drawings just flowed from my body and I just would quickly jump onto their backs as they'd rush by me and enjoy the ride until both the drive and the enthusiasm and the artistic creativity would finally spend itself and leave us both in heaps along the rives/roads of life. Hope you like them. Here are some. Most are titled at the bottom as well as dated. Cheers, TONY