tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88321855309317197082024-03-05T18:20:04.564-08:00RC whitlock - paintings and sculptureRCWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407279871009653131noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8832185530931719708.post-51962005300866198622020-01-07T13:50:00.000-08:002020-01-07T13:50:31.637-08:00<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">This portrait is what I'm showing at the Berkeley Art Center from January 11-25, 2020.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</span><span style="font-size: large;">Please come by and see what I and other Berkeley artist are doing</span><span style="background-color: cyan;"><span><span style="background-color: #45818e;"></span></span></span>RCWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407279871009653131noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8832185530931719708.post-67114935166086808252018-08-18T21:55:00.000-07:002018-08-18T21:55:03.631-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've decided to revive my blog and use it as a tool to help my painting mature. I've been concentrating on portraits and the figure. Every Thursday I paint from a live model with four other artists. I'm finally getting some work I feel is worth showing and need feedback. This is an earlier painting in its nearly finished state that I felt was developing a personal style. I'll show you the progression in more blogs. <br />
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<br /><br />RCWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407279871009653131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8832185530931719708.post-20834583341530284172014-10-20T17:54:00.001-07:002020-01-05T15:36:14.460-08:00The Big Squeak Toy in North BeachThis is a painting I did in 2011 when I was began doing still life's. It was in Aria a wonderful antique store in North Beach. Aria is no longer there, a victim of rents in the new San Francisco. The toy is 8" tall and the painting is 65" x 35". This piece made me feel like a Painter for the first time. I could change what is there into something else.......<br />
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RCWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407279871009653131noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8832185530931719708.post-43956401131991652322014-07-10T15:37:00.000-07:002014-07-10T15:37:28.546-07:00<span style="font-size: large;">Berkeley Art Center Featured Artist - <span style="font-size: small;">June 2014</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">"Richard Whitlock's oil paintings of toys are at once humorous and nostalgic, while empathetic in their almost human gaze - lovingly painted with accomplished realism. His treatment of the subject, set in dreamy atmospheres lacking a background, lends a warmth that leads one to see these objects as entities, turning still lifes into portraits. At the same time, one may find their set gazes unsettling. In an age where the ambiguity between object-hood and personhood are at an all time high, Whitlock reminds us of our time-honored affection for, and distrust of, facsimiles."</span><br />
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</span>RCWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407279871009653131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8832185530931719708.post-35018008537879459002014-06-11T20:10:00.002-07:002014-06-11T22:10:55.556-07:00<h2 style="text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">for your introduction of my work as <i>Featured Artist</i> on the Berkeley Art Center web site. Your insights are helping to direct and inform my painting. One of the reasons I show my work is to get thoughtful feedback like yours</span>. <span style="font-weight: normal;">It motivates me to paint and challenges me to develop my ideas. </span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"> My show at Ohmega Salvage was in every way a success plus a good party! Now I've got a clean studio and empty canvases ready for paint! </span></h3>
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RCWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407279871009653131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8832185530931719708.post-86183217122374491672013-12-15T23:23:00.000-08:002013-12-16T14:19:37.167-08:00<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">This is my new large Pinocchio painting</span>. </div>
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In this work I'm questioning what figure painting in our century is and my belief that a portrait of a toy figure resonates with us as much or more than <i>real</i> people like the Queen of England and other rich & famous folk.</div>
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<br />RCWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407279871009653131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8832185530931719708.post-28119063215111674892013-02-27T23:12:00.000-08:002013-02-27T23:12:08.485-08:00Moving Right Along - <br />
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I've been working on my still lifes trying to get enough paintings for a show. The painting of "Billy & Minnie" sold to a graphic designer in San Francisco who also is a set designer so I know it has a good home. My new series <i>are</i> like sets in a way. In the theater the cast follows the action of the script and the story unfolds. For a story I use images I find in newspapers, magazines and books. My paintings echo the photographs but use toys to replace the people in the pictures. I don't change the dolls and puppets to look human...it's a still life... they are what they are and the script changes from viewer to viewer.<br />
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Here is one of my paintings from last year that uses size and your expectations of what should be. It's a 3 feet by 5 feet, oil on canvas of a 5 inch tall squeak toy. The toy makes the tiniest of noises!<br />
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<br />RCWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407279871009653131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8832185530931719708.post-30660275647995014892013-02-06T20:40:00.000-08:002013-02-06T20:40:26.672-08:00A new series of paintings<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="color: cyan;">These guys were in a show along with 200 other pieces at the Berkeley Art Center that was reviewed by Kenneth Baker January 5th in the Chronicle. His review "'Wonder'-small scale submissions provoke big curiosity" invited the reader to imagine the "onerous dilemma" of contemporary artists' in choosing a piece for the show. No dilemma here. I thought it was a strong painting that represented a new direction for my still life's..... and it was the right size! </span></div>
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RCWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407279871009653131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8832185530931719708.post-56770631284582774012013-01-23T17:25:00.000-08:002013-01-23T17:25:45.042-08:00Hi,<br />
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New Year and new work on the way! My painting has been slowed by the world around me but I have a new confidence and the energy is back. My still lifes have taken a back seat to the portrait & figure painting I do on Thursdays at Brian's studio. I'm starting to get the paintings I want (they aren't good enough to show but I'm encouraged) so I'm back painting Mickey, Minnie and all my characters again with renewed vigor. Plus I have some Bosch action figures in the works. I hope to keep updating this blog although I admit I'm not to good with computers.<br />
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Thank you,<br />
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Richard WhitlockRCWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407279871009653131noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8832185530931719708.post-51118017676549761342012-03-28T22:07:00.001-07:002012-03-28T22:07:17.038-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've been concentrating on my portraits recently which are not ready to show so I'll put some of my still life's on the blog for those who couldn't get to my show at the New Amsterdam Cafe last year in December. I'll try to have another show there this year and have an opening party this time. This is my way of trying to keep everybody in touch with what I'm painting till then.<br />
Stay tuned!RCWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407279871009653131noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8832185530931719708.post-31073920669955382892012-03-23T20:10:00.000-07:002012-03-23T20:50:36.316-07:00<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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