12x16inch oil painting by Chad Smalt 2013 . Although from the beginning I knew the world is impermanent, not a moment passes when my sleeves are dry. - Zen Master Ryokan Share this:FacebookTwitterGoogle...

18x24in oil painting by Chad Smalt 2013 . .. “From the earliest times there have always been those you perished along the road. Still I have always been drawn by windblown clouds into dreams of a lifetime of wandering.” – Matsuo Basho Share this:FacebookTwitterGoogle...

20x24inch oil painting by Chad Smalt 2013 . .. Open hearts always ache, Beset with pain, But alive. Spent hearts close. Closed hearts die. Preservation of warmth is a battle for a culture downcast. The callousness of frost tempts the weak and weary. A human failing lets its heart die. -...

18x24inch oil painting by Chad Smalt 2013 . .. Why feel at all? To endure the aches of actuality. The outside world embracing apathy is not blessed. But condemned to absurdity. Rather die alone than in oblivion. - Shai Hulud Share this:FacebookTwitterGoogle...

12x12inch oil painting by Chad Smalt 2013 . ..   you in mine fused our lives lived for perfect love my rose of triumph my authoress my cause give me to-morrow - A Humument, Tom Phillips Share this:FacebookTwitterGoogle...

9x12inch oil painting by Chad Smalt 2013 . I remember catching myself with an expression on my face that doesn’t relate to what’s going on anymore. - I Remember, Joe Brainard Share this:FacebookTwitterGoogle...

12x16inch oil painting by Chad Smalt . .. February 18, 1997 I believe I’m actually going to have to be strapped down. One comes to a point where one has NOT come to a point – where one will soon have to MAKE a point to be anywhere at all. You had better send someone to strap me...

One year today since this blog website group officially started. The initial impulse was to try and create a place for the disparate people making art in various places to share with each other and then hopefully an audience as well. It is easy to worry about hits and views and the here and...

12x12in oil paintings by Chad Smalt 2012 . .. … …. ….. Some more stuff from first semester grad school. These are water reflections from the cohocton river. I liked them because it was the sky, the semi-random distorted reflections from the water and bits of the river...

‘FERMATA’ UPDATED IN ITS FINISHED STATE  12/17/2012 The early stage of my painting has much in common with that of my sculpting: it’s playtime with mud.  More and more, I want to retain the energy of the initial marks, to record only the notes of light and shadow that are...

. .. … …. ….. …… ……. …….. ……… “always connected never engaged” Share this:FacebookTwitterGoogle...

  Hello Hello! Sorry I have been away since the end of June… What happened there? It surely was not my intention. I love being a part of this community and that wasn’t a very nice way to treat it! I am curious where the hell I have been and what I have been up to since my...

I love playing with certain elements… you would think sometimes the original artwork is final – for me is not. Quite often I’m just getting started. I play with the drawn/painted elements, creating new compositions, variations, using the elements in a dynamic way…experimenting. Art is...

Anybody else create art as therapy? A friend of mine abruptly left my life with no warning, no explanation, and no goodbye. It really got to me so I dealt with the hurt and disappointment by creating this drawing, She Left Without Saying Goodbye. It’s derived from a circa 1920′s...

Just finished new artworks for my Hiding Places ongoing series. I carve in blocks of weathered barn wood and make small encaustics in the carved space. Some of the encaustics are just straight on painting, for other pieces I paint on top of lino cuts, or printed illustrations. Many barn wood...

From my bright side, a new series of illustrations emerged – undoubtedly  inspired by my daughter, Iza…who actually even helped a bit. This imagery will stick out a bit, not quite in tune with  the overall look of the blog, but it is part of what I do. I started doing these...

18x24inch oil painting by Chad Smalt 2012 . .. … Gerhard Richter – Artist: more of a title then a job description. It’s a word that still earns you considerable respect. People associate it with splendor and misery, with the attainment of freedom and with unexampled...

I was a medic in Vietnam and have some strong feelings about that! I was drawn to the decay of these old buildings that were used during that period to ship supplies to South East Asia sitting next to shiny new buildings being used to ship supplies to the Middle East. The more they change the...

24x16inch oil painting by Chad Smalt 2012 . .. …  More fooling around, blender, this time, got some kind of waterfall. Share this:FacebookTwitterGoogle...

Here’s a completed collage that I originally posted about a while ago. The background is an old silkscreen print left over from art school. It was interesting with this one knowing where to stop, since I wanted to keep a lot of the original background visible. Share...

My Bike Shop painting has been selected as one of the finalist in the Undo Ordinary Design Competition. Check it out and vote. Share this:FacebookTwitterGoogle...

20x24inch oil painting by Chad Smalt 2012 . .. …   Haruki Murakami : I chose to come here rather than stay away. I chose to see for myself rather than not to see. I chose to speak to you rather than to say nothing. Please do allow me to deliver one very personal message. It is...

. .. I don’t think I would have ever set out to paint a ghost, or a ballerina exactly, but somehow, I’ve painted a ghost ballerina. This is another old painting surface that I intended to just paint over. Brown sky? haha  I saw some of the olympic gymnastics, and the ballet...

Here’s a snapshot of the process for this one. Keep in mind there are dozens more Photoshop layers sandwiched between the basic image-element layers (colorizing, adjustments to curves, hue, contrast, and so on, gradient and fill layers… probably nearing a hundred in all), but I...

A continuation of my previous post – I saw in Carol’s post – Chad was asking about pictures in different stages of the drawing. I took some for one of the black bird drawings. Share this:FacebookTwitterGoogle +1EmailMoreDiggLinkedInRedditStumbleUpon