Small oil/Deerfield

Idea for big gouache picture

Finished picture, plus

At the top of this posting is a piece I finished last week; the images which follow are works in various stages of completion. The finished floral represents a departure of sorts from my usual selection of subject as well as a shift in style. Although essentially representative, I feel it has an expressive quality I would like to grow in similar work, including figurative and landscape pieces.

Blue ink daylilly

Portrait/work-in-progress

Delicate

Charcoal drawing

"Why don't you dance?"

I think these are more or less finished. Images constructed from a combination of ingredients: Raymond Carver's short story "Why don't you dance?", a large dose of imagination and some refrences to my memory of shapes, light movement, figures.