The first image here is a photo of a portion of my pallet. This small area where I mixed my paints stopped my mind with its subtle variations of neutral color and its pearlescent quality. I was inspired to explore these colors further and started three new painting with a more neutral color scheme than usual.
This is a drawing that I did over a month ago. I plan to turn it into a painting but I was so intrigued by the automatic process of recent paintings that I wanted to continue along those lines rather than work with a predetermined image. I drew this after seeing a friends facebook profile […]
Starting a new painting can be like starting over. The last two painting that I posted, “Floating Underwater” and “Big Waves” gave me immense satisfaction to complete. I really like them, feel good about the new direction they are pointing to and I’ve been inspired to get started on the next painting. In fact, in […]
Themes of water and powerful currents are recurrent in my recent, unplanned paintings. Here I see a structure, a focal point overwhelmed by floodwaters. It is holding its ground for now but it’s uncertain how long that can last. The structure has integrity and a sense of place but there is no way to […]