Undersea, 2014, acrylic on canvas, 24″ x 24″
I’ve been ambivalent about this painting but thought I’d post. It’s a beginning of something. I was going for an undersea feeling and experimenting with texture.
I miss my studio. I now have to move out of my home soon as well, so I’m hoping that wherever I land I can work on being more prolific.
I’m just sending off a small lotus painting that I made for my cousin-in-law Laura. It’s 6″ x 6″ on a cradled Ampersand panel.
Laura’s Lotus, 2014, acrylic on board, 6″ x 6″
And here’s a photograph of an installation of panels custom-made for an unusual alcove in a very modern living room:
Blue Flags, 2013, each 6″ x 6″, acrylic on board
And here’s a little tribute to the Boulder wind. There are many ways to explore color…
Bronze Heart, 2014, Acrylic on board, 6″ x 6″
My small but serviceable studio is about 4.5 miles from where I live, and there’s a lovely trail that goes most of the way; on nice days, if I don’t have a lot to carry, I walk. There’s a large flock of Canadian geese that gathers on a pond along the trail. I’m very fond of them.
In the studio I worked on a painting that’s been sitting dormant for a while. I guess I can’t deny that it’s a decorative painting, but I don’t really mind that at all. I love the iconic graphic lotus patterns that have been around for centuries in Indian textiles and they’re very fun to paint. It still needs a day or two of work but here’s the current state of it:
I was at a good stopping point but had too much paint on the palette to throw away, so I pulled out a sheet of watercolor paper and made this, which I like very much: 
And here’s one more “imaginary landscape” that echoes that wintery pond where my geese like to do their networking.
Winter hasn’t even officially begun yet, but I’m thinking about spring. Spring will come. And it will look like this:
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