8″x10″ oil in panel
The sunrises and sunsets have been breathtaking this week…until I set up to paint it. The sunset was quiet, totally unremarkable.
The trees were spaced in a way that was too even to make an interesting composition, so I pruned some out of my picture!
8″x8″ oil on panel
Beautiful afternoon at the lake!
“Let’s ride smooth and fast, the way nature made it!” -Lydia, age 7
If you are so inclined him a little Guy Clark as you look at this one…
“Ain’t nothin’ in the world that I like better Than bacon & lettuce & home grown tomatoes…
Only two things money can’t buy
That’s true love and homegrown tomatoes” -Guy Clark
“It’s difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.” -Lewis Grizzard
The solution to dark or nasty thoughts seems pretty simple when you put it like that.
8″x10″ mixed media on paper
I have a very talented artist friend, named Helen, who has generously opened her studio and allowed me to explore acrylic abstracts and collage. Working under her guidance has been fantastic because she is a wealth of knowledge of materials, technique, and design, AND she lets me play with all her cool stuff without my having to make a huge investment in a new medium.
I started on a large sheet of paper and just played.
Then I cropped out a part I really liked.
It was really fun! It was supposed to be an abstract, but an abstracted landscape magically appeared.
10″x8″ oil on linen panel. Peru
The above painting is of the trail to Machu Pichu, it was a very steep and rocky section. The trail was long, and filled with beautiful things to experience along the way. Sometimes the hike was straight uphill for miles, but those sections were always followed by a downhill.
My daughters and I are reading “The Pahntom Toll Booth” together. I love the way the book portrays time and our sense of time passing. ” Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.” -Bill Gates
Sometimes we get so caught up in today, we forget to vision, when you are walking on tired legs, sometimes it is hard to see past the mile long hill in front of you.
If a journey is well defined and the goal is clear, even if your steps are small, so much can be accomplished one step at a time.
12″x9″ guache on paper
Late fall blooms are full of deep rich colors.
Here is my painting half way done. It has been fun experimenting with a different medium.
5″x7″ pastel on sanded paper
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.
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