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I hope to add more work soon to my online moving sale gallery. I've been experiencing nausea from various medication combinations as I try to function despite nonstop pain. So I've been sidelined for a couple of days.

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RMiddletonArt abstract paintings clearance sale

Opportunity to purchase abstract paintings directly from the artist Rob Middleton (30-year working abstract painter) before he moves
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Many of my paintings I like in horizontal or vertical orientations. But not all. I turned one, but not the other. Vertically Vitality would have taken up the whole screen so I put the description to the side. Layouts used to take me a long time & I'd belabor decisions. Not this time. Bing bang boom, it's fine, I like it, keep moving. This was almost the time I learned command line & static site *but* my Mac is too outdated to download the recommended software. Someday, Linux, someday...

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A horizontal abstract painting of mostly green with blue and white and touches of black and reds in abstract shapes, no pattern, no definite meaning. Below the image the title, A Game In Green (from Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons) 24 by 36 inches (61 by 91.4 cm) Recommended Donation Range: $400- $1000+ (crossed out)/ NOW: $225+ [empty space, then side by side:] At left an abstract painting image in teal, white, yellow, reds, black, and more. At right the description: Vitality 48 by 30 inches (122 by 76 cm) Recommended Donation Range: $600 $1500+ (crossed out) / NOW: $375+ Browser bar: https://humanissome.neocities.org/PaintingSale
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Detail of Humanism Blue

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Detail of abstract expressionist painting titled Humanissome Blue with many paint colors on canvas primed with clear gesso. Applying a white ground is the most customary preparation when starting a painting. For a change I tried some with the base color as canvas beige instead of white. Paint absorbs into the surface more than when it sits up on white primer, giving the background a gradient quality. Paint colors in this detail include green, yellow, grey, white, pink, black, and a bright baby blue.
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#ScribesAndMakers 20 March: Do you like graffiti? Do you have an example? Yes.

I love the word.

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In summer 1989 in alpine Zermatt, Switzerland, I was surprised to see "Fuck The World" on a side street. The message seemed incongruous to that place & time. I appreciated that it was on a temporary wooden fence enclosing construction. That trip I also learned to love layers of colorful notices pasted all over walls.

Graffiti aesthetic appears in my #Rart paintings.

Center detail of abstract expressionist painting titled Humanism Blue. At top center I used a thick red marker to make a shape like a partial Christmas tree, a backwards 3, or a stylized capital "E." Marker adds a temporary aesthetic to a painting. Several centimeters below the mark described above is a similar color in paint. The paint remains vivid while the maker fades. I enjoy creating work that changes over time after I've walked away from it.
Abstract expressionist painting titled "Tag" for the red marker scribbles that resemble graffiti signature tags in my mind. I can also get the feel of a multicolored plaster wall when I look at some parts of this painting. Besides the fading & covered over red marker tags, this painting features slate blue, bright blues, yellow, peach, light pistachio green, grey & black, & more, with thick white oil paint blending many colors together.
Detail of another abstract expressionist painting that includes red (and green and blue) marker. White paint interacts with the marker to change the red to pink. I love experimenting with materials & producing instability in my work. A fellow artist once expressed shock that my methods are "not archival," meaning the finished work is not stable, fixed in appearance. I say that choices made by me continue to change the painting even after I stop touching it. I think that's bad ass. (At the bottom of this painting there's a strong suggestion of an image that often appears in graffiti. If you see it I'm sure you won't believe me when I say that I produced that shape entirely unintentionally by making lines!) Like so much of my work, this painting detail includes so many colors and shapes without much pattern... very difficult to describe in words, made to escape language.
Detail of an abstract painting mostly in muted purple grey, with green, rose, and bright peach brush marks scattered on the top layer. In the center on top of a peach brush mark written in black sharpie: ANYTHING.
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