Robert Burridge - Tree Study #2

My favorite time of year is autumn, when the leaves turn blazing colors. With this quick tree study, my goal was to showcase a line of glowing trees. My challenge was to use the color in an effective way - and have only one tree be the "star." 

This painting started off as a "mess" and I did negative shape painting to create the treeline first,  then I pushed back the background trees with darker color, then added the brightest colors to the center front tree to create the depth. 

Original acrylic painting on paper, 10x10 $275 + 25 shipping/handling

Robert Burridge - Stars of the Big Top #3

As part of my Circus Series, I'm not done yet! Last month it was Trapeze Stars and this month I'm doing a series of Circus Clowns. The clowns are not typical funny faces or scary faces, but more about humans who dress up as clowns and work in the circus. It's a job. Their actual job is to draw your attention to themselves and way from the roustabouts, changing equipment and scenery in the other rings. They are always waiting in the wings, ready to go on.
Original painting - acrylic and collage on 12 x 12 inch canvas. $675 + 50 Shipping/handling.

Robert Burridge - Make Things…

Every year I am involved in the Central Coast Wine Classic, held in California. The event is very supportive of the arts and I wanted to create an image that would accomplish three things: 1) Be a painterly painting 2) Include wine imagery without be a typical still life and 3) Convey an uplifting message. I was happy with the results. I have been using stenciled lettering in some of my paintings for the last few years. I find that people respond to my narrative text. I like it because it keeps me focused. After good response, I decided to create a "Make Things" series of works. This one is 22 x 22, acrylic on paper, mounted on a canvas.

Robert Burridge -Whoa!

This painting is part of my "Roadside Attractions" series that I have been working on for over a year. I was probably 8 or 9 years old when my dad rescued me from school one day and took me to my first circus. I remember every second of that day inside the Clyde Beatty - Cole Brothers Circus. The sight of enormous canvas tents in an open field mesmorized me. The aroma of circus tigers, elephants and popcorn mixed in with fresh sawdust stirred me up. The aerial performers, costumed clowns and the sound of the live circus band pretty much did it for my impressionable self - I was hooked!
After my tenth birthday, I decided to perform a one-man circus act. I loved climbing, swinging and hanging from ropes tied in our backyard trees. In our yard, my dad built a trapeze and a high bar for me. I bought a book on "How to be a Clown." I listened to circus music and I practiced magic tricks which included the family rabbit and dog. During the summer I performed an entire one-man backyard circus act for our neighbors. Now, I swear to God this is true - for the Grand Finale I performed swinging gymnastic gyrations on a burning suspended bicycle ten feet in the air!
"Whoa" was created as a series of three - all a variation of this High Flyer Costumed Bird Performer.
Original 12x12, acrylic on canvas. $625 plus $50 shipping.

Robert Burridge - Free Range

My vision of the great Southwest includes wide open spaces, big blocks of color and organic shapes that blur the edges of land and sky. I painted a series of impressionistic Free Range paintings after visiting the Grand Canyon for the first time. My memories had to percolate for a while before I could put paint to canvas.
Original 12x12, acrylic on canvas. $625 plus $50 shipping.

Flower Vase on Orange Table

Robert Burridge - Acrylic on paper 10x10 $275
Another one of my daily warm up paint sketches, this painting is the result of my goals and intentions to focus on a "quiet space" with a wacky point of view. My warm ups are out of my head -- I paint with a minimum color palette and finish when I begin to smile.

Last of the Dahlias

Robert Burridge - Acrylic on paper 10x10 $275
This 10x10 acrylic painting represents just one of my daily morning warm-up paint sketches. Each day is a different subject and color combination painted in ten minutes. For the past twenty years I have been fortunate to paint daily. These paint sketches help me to see more clearly and quickly.