dgolightly

Douglas Golightly

Favorite Medium: paintings
Statement: All my work starts said ends with drawing. From the first vague idea to the last brush stroke it is drawing. Starting with the object as a model I draw the object on the painting panel in pencil or ink or some combination of fine drawing media. The drawing is seen as a materializing of:(1) proportion (the relationship of each part of the object to all its other parts);(2) direction, or movement (how the form of the object ""moves"" or occupies three-dimensional space);(3) feeling for the form (the awareness and expression of the object as a form occupying three-dimensional space).The drawing is continued in paint and color in order to finish the work of graphically describing three-dimensional form.Whatever meaning the painting, the drawing, might have is derived directly from its illusion as a three-dimensional object in three-dimensional space.The object itself is loaded with meanings, connotations: literal or concrete, abstract, literary, symbolic, allegorical.What ever the viewer my make of this drawing, this painting dependents a lot on what the viewer brings to the object, and to the painting of the object.

Douglas Golightly California art oil 14x11	Douglas Golightly California art oil 24x20
Douglas Golightly California art oil 10 x 12	Douglas Golightly California art oil 37x35