photographs of one painting taken periodically as I paint
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Monday, January 4, 2010
quote
"I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own." -Jackson Pollock
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Thursday, October 15, 2009
quote
"To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture."
- Pablo Picasso
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- John R.P. Russell
- Fr. John R.P. Russell is a husband, a father of four, and a priest for the Byzantine Ruthenian Catholic Eparchy of Parma. He is the administrator of St. Stephen Byzantine Catholic Church in Allen Park, Michigan. He is also a lifelong painter, particularly influenced by abstract expressionism and iconography. He has an M.Div. from the Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Ss. Cyril and Methodius and a B.A. in art with a minor in religion from Wabash College.