BRUCE DOCKER PAINTINGS: THEY ARE LEAVING, FOR NOW

Saturday, August 6, 2011

THEY ARE LEAVING, FOR NOW

LANDSCAPE

Acrylic on Wood Panel - 5" x 7" - ©Bruce Docker, 2011

$100.00

I was driving through a rural area of
northeastern Kansas, south of Kansas City.
The fields were planted right up to the edge of the road.
It seemed the plants might grow out onto
the blacktop and converge in the middle.

Contemporary American Art

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2 comments:

Rick Nilson said...: farming practices are (by the way we use the land) more extensive and less intensive. your painting is a case in point.; August 7, 2011 at 10:52 AM
Bruce Docker said...: True, but this was the first time I'd seen it taken to this extent. I actually liked it.; August 7, 2011 at 2:54 PM

How I am, the way I am.

I come from a long line of artists. My father drew the original series of cigarette smoking woodpeckers used in all traditional tattoo shops today. My maternal grandmother was a professional artist who could paint the highlights of a vase with the devastation of a paper cut to the eye. And of course my grandfather was the infamous paint-by-numbers artist and rum runner of Kansas City in the 1940’s. I have tried to combine all I learned from them into a cohesively rambling style.

My formal training includes years of study with the Canadian art God, John Nagy, developer of the audacious Learn to Draw Kit. We met every Tuesday afternoon at 3:30.

Believing in total respect for my materials I once used an entire box of Crayola 64’s without breaking a single crayon, I covered my driveway in Scotch tape to protect my sidewalk chalk drawings from the rain, and the cloth of my canvas is made only from the wool of free range sheep.