Wolfwerk Studio Pics Oct & 2011

The painting of the DeYoung is underway. My pet died a few weeks ago and some time has been lost in preparing a memorial in our backyard. Finished the first layer of marks for the museum today, cadmium red light. Walked by the museum mid morning after heavy rains. The holes deformed the copper in the stamping and the lips retain rather than shed water, as a knife blade would. Each hole and its depression held a share of water. The building was way darker than is usual, black showing beneath the red in a sullen note. It will surely patina faster than predicted. I noticed the hash marks the architect encoded between the windows and at the rear of the "porch" they follow the fingers of everything following the sun. Like Mayans or ships at sea.

Wolfwerk Studio 13 September 2011

Photos from a weeks work at wolfwerk studio. Progress on the art Cabinet, some clearance of the art closet, and a beginning on the drawing for the painting of the DeYoung after finishing the study of it and the Science center paintings from the conceived music concourse triptych.

wolfwerk studio pics 26 August 2011

Process shots from the week. The study for the DeYoung is closest to being ready for paint an panel.

Wolfwerk Studio Golden Gate Music Concourse study process August 2011

Cat and I went to the DeYoung in the music concourse on Sunday and used our memberships to view the Picasso exhibit on tour while Musee national Picasso in Paris renovates. It was an excellent show, consisting largely of the box hidden under the artist's bed and the sculpture which was too personal, or marred, to move in the marketplace. Lots of penis and vagina and satyrs and dissembling women. Nationalism and death. Today was monday and I worked the sky in my study of the DeYoung. Shades of Cezanne.

Wolfwerk Studio 29 July 2011

Catching up in the studio. The new 2-masted Mabef electric easel arrived and one busted back later is in place, I love being able to hold the remote in my left hand and a brush in the right, less strain (when I recover from humping it upstairs.) The Tondo crawls along, and I have started the second study for the Music Concourse Triptych. With the new easel in the studio I shall begin painting the panels for the Triptych soon.

wolfwerk studio pic july 20 2011

Two sets of pics today, one a series of macro shots of the bubble universe tondo underway and one a set of shots of the first of three studies in a series for the three paintings of the Golden Gate Park Music concourse triptych.

wolfwerk studio pics July 15, 2011

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Wolfwerk studio pics Jan 11 2011

My Guinea Pig, Baby is recuperating from surgery tonight away from home. I finished the blue in the waves here while she was under the knife. We will get her home, tomorrow

wolfwerk studio pics Jan 6 2011

Back at work to keep me sane while packing by necessity and hoping nothing new rears its ugly head to get in the way of fulfilling the move. Started this Tuesday, after Cat went back to work.

Professional pics soon to have web pages of their own

These pictures of my paintings are awaiting webpages of their own here at wolfwerk.com. Cat and I are gessoing three panels for the music concourse triptych, plus one circular panel for an abstract contemplation to keep me painting prior to the move to the new studio at the beginning of February and during the period in which I will work on the drawing for the concourse paintings.

wolfwerk studio pics dec 3 2010

Inserting grassy knolls. This construction is very different from the music concourse, of course, and each step in composition now is entirely fanciful.

wolfwerk studio pics Nov 29 2010

Back at work, solving problems in the abbreviated construction of my Music Concourse study. The scene is kind of a projection of that seen by the statue of Francis Scott Key at the end of the Plaza.

wolfwerk studio process pics Nov 18 2010

My painting of the music concourse makes me want to go bowling.

Wolfwerk studio pics nov 18 2010

Yes, I am going to do to San Francisco what JMW Turner did to Venice, in my own way.

wolfwerk pic nov 16 2010

worked on the trees in my study of the music concourse in Golden Gate Park

Wolfwerk studio pics nov 15 2010

the study for the music concourse compression is progressing again after a week's hiatus due to a back spasm.

GG park museum square study November 4, 5

This is a beginning to a project I have thought a great deal about. Let us watch what reality means to the idea. I have strung together the structures from 3 sides of museum square in Golden Gate park into a single line for graphic cohesion, and fun.

wolfwerk studio pics Oct 29 2010

working sporadically as the studio transfer slowly begins. The painting of Maryhill is in its final form, I am working on the framing elements.

Oct 2 2010 wolfwerk studio pics

Catching up here, these are the next to last pics of skyquake before finishing touches, plus a new approach to an oval which is a part of another bridge painting, and finally the tondo of the dandelion

2 October 2010 Wolfwerk.com studio pics

Took some snaps of the completed 18"x54" skyquake oil on linen. Worked on four paintings today, all still in process.

DigiGems

DigiGems by Wolfwerk
Thomas Wolf presents DigiGems to turn the 6th generation iPod Nano into a work of wearable art. Try it as a tie clip, bracelet, broach or cockade for your favorite hat while albums of Wolfwerk images move across the screen. Mary Moffitt uses the nano as a modern pendant on a silver chain. Download any or all of the 31 Wolfwerk DigiGem albums into iPhoto and sync to the iPod Nano using iTunes.

Wolfwerk studio pics sep 22

Wolfwerk studio pics sep 22 2010. Brought forward some layabout unfinished works and am currently juggling 12 wet paintings. Whee!

wolfwerk studio pics sep 21 2010

wolfwerk studio pics sep 21 2010. Worked on 3 today in between meetings with brokers, looks like the condo on 7th ave. is really ours!

wolfwerk studio pics sep 20 2010

Added shades of Dioxizene to my skyquake today. Still small details, large effects. VA loans are persnickety items in SF, still waiting and worrying.

wolfwerk studio pics september 17 2010

wolfwerk studio pics september 17 2010, Worked on skyquake cassion and bridge, plus added to boats. Used scarlet in Powshares. Every painting is wet, seven at the moment. Cat and I will look at 4 possible studio/houses today.

wolfwerk studio pics september 16 2010

pleasant surprises on Facebook this week, old mentors and old buddies, both. Painted on 2 werks today, tweaking the bridge in skyquake and starting the boats, plus the dandelions in peril of scarlet have moved along. My back hurts, so I am going horizontal for a bit after lunch. Bye, y'all.

wolfwerk studio pics september 15 2010

wolfwerk studio pics september 15 2010 worked on bubble universes, the tondo and the square. Worked on powshares. That makes 3. Cat is home with badneck, currently at Chinese medicine.

wolfwerk studio process shots sept 14 2010

worked on 4 paintings today, one blue not included here for obvious reasons. Nearly done with skyquake, all but touch-up and boats. Today it was a wide range of grays with a few metallics thrown in. Got some volcano action in the dandelion box and worked on cleaning up some ragged edges by adding high-key edge contrast to the arabesques and arcs in the latest (dandelion) tondo. Today Cat was home from work and we lost a bid on a house studio a block from here.

Wolfwerk Studio pics september 13 2010

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Sep 8 2010 Wolfwerk.com studio pics process shots, 'scuse me while I paint some sky.

September 3 2010 wolfwerk.com studio

Process photos from September 3 2010 wolfwerk.com studio, seven oil paintings underway currently by Thomas Wolf.

september 1 2010 wolfwerk.com studio pics

september 1 2010 wolfwerk.com studio pics

Another day in the studio, three paintings get layers of gold ochre

Another day in the studio, three paintings get layers of gold ochre

august 25, 2010 Wolfwerk.com studio shots

working on five at once, here are recent pics of 2

aug_18_2010 wolfwerk.com in the studio

aug_18_2010 wolfwerk.com Thomas Wolf Just catching up

In The Studio

These photos are low quality snapshots of my daily labors in the studio.

Personal Art History

These photographs should help provide context for my activities and art. They represent my entire body of work.

The Wreck Of The New Carissa On A Snow Puffin Nesting Beach Near Coos Bay, Oregon

The freighter New Carissa ran aground on the beach near Coos Bay, Oregon in February of 1999. Mark Adam and I were driven in the foul weather to overlook the beach with sketching supplies. The military bombed the New Carissa, breaking it into two parts and dumping its oil on the beach, where the endangered snow puffin had a nesting ground. Mark Adam and I each did paintings later from the sketches made from high above the beach warm and dry in Catherine's old Vanagon Synchro.