Saturday, August 25, 2018

Friday, July 20, 2018

New

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

Saturday, July 14, 2018

New

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

Friday, July 6, 2018

Falling

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

Thursday, July 5, 2018

Wednesday, July 4, 2018

Recent-not!

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

Tuesday, June 19, 2018

Thursday, June 14, 2018

Friday, June 8, 2018

Tidal pool progress


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

Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Recent

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

Tuesday, May 22, 2018

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.

Friday, May 11, 2018

Almost..........

18" x 24"
Ink and acrylic on paper
2018

Thursday, May 10, 2018

Wednesday, May 9, 2018

New

Acrylic on paper
2018
18" x 24"

Friday, May 4, 2018

art model detail

Ink and acrylic
on paper
(detail)
2018

Wednesday, May 2, 2018

Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Friday, April 27, 2018

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


Thursday, April 19, 2018

As of today

36" x 36"
Acrylic on canvas
Two weeks in +/-.

Wednesday, April 11, 2018

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. 

Thursday, April 5, 2018

Friday, March 30, 2018

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. 

Thursday, March 29, 2018

Detail from work in progress



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

Saturday, March 24, 2018

Portrait



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

Friday, March 23, 2018

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?