recent work

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New

"Escape of the dragon fly"
Oil on canvas
24" x 18"
2018

New

White Horse Beach
Oil on board
24" x 18"
2018

Falling

Falling
2018
Ink and acrylic on paper
24" x 18"

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Recent-not!

Charcoal and acrylic
on paper
c. 30" x 24"

Circles on diamonds

Acrylic on wallpaper

Portrait of the "artist"

Ink and acrylic on paper.

Tidal pool progress

Putting on layers of oil paint and searching for simplification and integration, connections.

acrylic on wallpaper/in progress

Almost??????????

Recent

18" x 24"
Ink, graphite and charcoal
on paper

Continuing

36" x 36"
Acrylic on canvas

Palette consists of Winsor blue, Phthalo blue, Sap green, Hooker's green light, Titanium white, Black, Payne's grey,  purple, Red ocher, turquoise, magenta, vermilion and maybe a few more.  Mixed and from the tube.

The work here is with the balance and weight of it, I think.  Color choices will contribute to the solution.  I think I can find an asymmetrical cadence to keep the eye moving.

Next move may be for some deeper points here and there and maybe some wider marks in the upper right or off the center.

In progress

Almost..........

18" x 24"
Ink and acrylic on paper
2018

Finis for now

Acrylic on canvas
30" x 30"
2018

New

Acrylic on paper
2018
18" x 24"

art model detail

Ink and acrylic
on paper
(detail)
2018

In progress

30" x 30"
Acrylic on canvas

10" x 7" abstraction

Watercolor, gouache and pastel
2015

Watercolor, gouache and pastel

11" x 7"
2015

So, time to set it aside and look off and on; smaller one done

In progress

"Rocks, seaweed, sand
along Penzance Road"
2018
24" x 18"
Acrylic on canvas

Getting closer

As of today

36" x 36"
Acrylic on canvas

Two weeks in +/-.

Better photo??

More from yesterday

And after that

The abstraction is underway!

Now, after few days.....

Acrylic on canvas
36" x 36"

Looking down into a tidal pool at Penzance Beach, Gloucester.  Likely will alter this lots more.  The rocks really interest me as does the color of the sea "vegetation".  More interested in abstracting the reality of this as I move ahead and layering it with oil paint. 

Started this today

36" x 36"
Acrylic on canvas

Finis for now

Charcoal sketch

Further focus on this

The areas I've circled I plan to rework with the background ultramarine mix I've been using.
Still think it's too busy. 

These strike me as archetype shapes/images coming from a primitive mind.  Almost a view into ancient efforts to sort out the entropy of early existence and awareness.  Discovery meets painter. 

Detail from work in progress

Working oil over the acrylic with some color adjustments and changes.

A little chaos in the painting room + detail of WIP

Portrait

Don't think I have posted this before.  Maybe two years old or so.  I actually might have painted over it.

Slowly evolving

Finding rhythm and balance can be difficult when you are on an exploration into new territory.  Making space for the shapes, which are really evolving by natural selection as maybe Darwin would say, is my current challenge and maybe preoccupation.  Trying to relax my focus is challenging too.  Can you tell that I was reading Dr. Seuss to two year old Clare over the past weekend?

Charcoal on paper

Delicate, purposeful moves ahead

Finding something here but slowly..........

Figure and detail

Detail from the current struggles

Another older charcoal portrait

Revisions