Brian Frink
@bfrink
Husband to Wilbur, father to Blake and AnnaKeiko, and grandpa to Wyatt, Grant, Charlotte, Jack, Sunny, and Mabel! Urban pioneer of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 79-84 Painter, pizza maker, and lover of life. GO BE BEAUTIFUL!!
WHEW! Getting print margins correct—and consistent—is a huge PITA. Anyway, everything is working again, and I made this lovely print—IMHO—of a recent iPad drawing. It is part of my ongoing Corot Studies series and will be available as part of a forthcoming limited-edition portfolio of prints.
Corot Study: Creekside, Spearfish, SD Pastel and pencil on gray Stonehenge paper, 22 × 30", 2026. I love disappearing into the work. The anger and frustration are there—but so are joy and love. Maybe painting is where irreconcilable contradictions are allowed to exist together.
Sometimes I have to stare at a painting for a long time to see it. This one didn't do much for me initially...but now... it is singing.
Corot Study: Black Hills Variation, Creek 22x30" Pencil on gray stonehenge paper 2026
In progress, 22x30" In these drawings, I’m trying to translate landscape as behavior rather than description: trees, water, rocks, and shadows as mass, pressure, movement, and interruption. The two crossing shadows are key — interlocking rhythmic forms that hold the drawing together.
Corot Study: Lake Superior Version Various pencils on gray Stonehenge paper 22x30" 2026
Corot Study, Lake Superior 2026 Pencil on gray Stonehenge paper 22x30" Today...too tired from a fun but intense past several days to do much else other than make a drawing.
The painting is not the landscape remembered. It is memory becoming landscape.
Just a couple of weeks away!! Also, please share this with anyone who might be interested. Thanks!
Constructing, deconstructing, slopping, grooving. Once I get this to some sort of place, I'm building a scaffold structure to hang it on. That will change it a lot. Making it up as I go along, and that IS my job!!
perfect! That didn't take long. Now, sizing and three coats of gesso. I'll be ready to start the painting in a week or less...and then five more.
Getting ready to stretch canvas over this 9-by-7-foot frame. Why work so big? At this scale, painting becomes a fascinating physical experience. My entire body enters the work. The painting becomes a world to wander through. I then hope it becomes a similar experience for the viewer.