Landscapes in Oils/Acrylics (jgyoungmd)

STREAM ABOVE LYONS 2

Oil on Canvas 24″ x 30″

STREAM ABOVE LYONS 2

Oil on Canvas 24″ x 30″

STREET SCENE

Acrylic on Canvas 14″ x 17″

SOLD

CABIN 9

Acrylic on Canvas 16″ x 20″

See also the poem of the same name in the Psychiatrist’s Notebook: Poems at an Exhibition

NOT FOR SALE

PALACE OF FINE ARTS

Acrylic on Canvas 24″ x 30″

With this painting and the introduction of a crowd of people, I initiated a whole new direction of my painting– interactions of people in ordinary situations. Subsequent paintings stirred associations which I included in the series of poems called Poems at an Exhibition.

ELDORADO SPRINGS

Acrylic on Canvas 36″ x 48″

To make diamonds, the abstract design and the real must come together.

E. S. CANYON CLIFFS

Acrylic on Board 36″ x 48″

The texture of this painting is gained by using a palette knife and paint drips, not a brush. There are many ways to paint a painting or solve a problem.

HUGH’S LANDING

Acrylic on canvas 14″ x 17″

FALL STREAM

Acrylic on masonite 18″ x 24″

To function creatively it is important to begin with the real. Imagination and a future only happen when you know the present and live in the now. Calm reflecting by an autumn stream is a real as it gets.

THE LITTLE HOUSE

Acrylic on masonite 18″ x 24″

The artist has to be aware of the negative shapes (the white space) as well as the positive shapes (the colored space). Both need to be interesting shapes. In this picture the negative spaces flow into the positive spaces integrating the object with the background. Changing boundaries is a key concept in creative functioning. Hyperlink to the poem, The White House
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FOREST AND TREES

Acrylic on masonite 18″ x 24″

Sometimes we can’t see the forest for the trees, and we have to back off to see the whole picture. At other times we need to fill in the details to complete the picture. Both are important to creative functioning. In this painting the trunks of the trees were formed by drips of paint flowing down a slanted board. The leaves were spatters of paint flicked from the brush to the surface. The brush point was used for the details of the branches only at the end.

Geclees of this image are available for sale. Send E-mail to John G. Young, M.D.

17 th STREET BRIDGE

Oil on masonite 14″ x 18″

Sold

COHASSET HOUSE

Acrylic on Canvas 16″ x 20″

CABIN STREAM

Acrylic on Canvas 24″ x 36″

SHAW GARDENS, JAMAICA

Acrylic on Canvas 16″ x 20″

TAOS WINTER

Oil on Canvas 14″ x 18″

FALLING INTO WINTER

Acrylic on canvas 14″ x 17″

WINTER SPRING

Acrylic on Masonite 18″ x 24″

FOUR ROCKS

Acrylic on masonite 24″ x 30″

Water has always fascinated me. I grew up near it and find myself returning to it often. Water represents that ever changing flow of life as well as the unconscious source of creative living. Yet when the flow meets something solid, interesting things happen. We need the constant as well as the variable. Thus the four rocks.

ROCK WATER

Acrylic on masonite 18″ x 24″

The transparency of water suggests that what we know can be as much by its absence as its presence. We know it because of how it changes our perception of reality.

TWO BARNS