August 2026 Hi
So, I am stuck on Conte crayon and the paper situation is that I used Bee paper for years, then they went belly up for a couple of years, so I was using Chanson, but then I went back to Bee and have been working on, with very few exceptions, 18x24" paper for the last bunch of years.
Bob Aldrich
American, b. 1955
Providence, Rhode Island
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I'm an outsider-lite, Brattleboro, Vermont-based person who has been drawing, occasionally painting, consistently for fifty plus years. Take a look at the portfolio. Many, many, many drawings, and a few paintings.
Statement
Something like this:
Focus is primarily on abstract and automatic painting and drawing. Lately, some less abstract images have begun to infiltrate the work, though they are in the background and less obvious than the ideas that come through an automatic, meditative process, whatever you call it?
The work is in response to many things- nature, things happening in the news, memories, color, the essence of a particular object, a response to the idea of motion, time. Bob feels a painting as much as he sees it. He sees himself more as a bystander or instrument in the process and is grateful that he’s able to have this way to interpret what’s going on around him.
Blah blah blah. Is any of that true?