The Delta Bird Oil Painting:
Song: "Northwest Passage" by Paul Hall. Written in Paris, 1980, (C) (P) 1987 by Paul Hall.
This was one of the many canvasses I did back in New York City in 1966 while I was going to the School of Visual Arts on East Twenty-third street in Manhattan. I was living in a one-room apartment on Bedford Street in the West Village and commuted to school on a Honda 50cc that was got me through the great transit strike when nothing else moved.
I had been inspired by one of my favorite songs, "This Little Bird" by Maryanne Faithful about a little bird that lives and sleeps on the wind so thin and graceful that the sun shines through that would fly so high as to be out of reach of human eye.
So Delta Bird seen here so high that one can see the curvature of the planet. It is so thin as to be practically transparent yet it also reveals in it's deep red a kinship with the iron ore silt in the river far below.
One of my favorite techniques is abstract expressionism which borders on representationalism because facing a blank canvass I can visualize things but only briefly. The expressionistic technique affords me the speed I need to set the idea and the visualization down on the picture plane before the vision fades, erased by the business of the day.
Digital art based on the Delta Bird Painting
The Artwork done by the artist during the Greenwich Village period
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This was one of the many canvasses I did back in New York City in 1966.....