Broken Shell

Ink on paper

Did this last week along with several others I'll post sometime.

Quick charcoal portrait

Charcoal and pastel on paper
18" x 24"

Finis with report/Just pictures from here on out!

Untitled
Charcoal and pastel
18" x 24"

I like this; I wouldn't post it if I didn't.  Someday soon I'm going to pick a bunch of stuff I don't care for and post it!!  I know the value to me could be different than what others might think.
Anyway, I've done lots over the past few months and am pushing ahead with things I've not shown.  Unemployment has the dividend of allowing more studio time.

Report: Page Eight

Charcoal and pastel on paper
18" x 24"

Report: Page Seven (Is this all you've done all summer?!)

Untitled
Watercolor/charcoal/gouache on paper
18" x 24"

Haven't been here for a few days.  Away at the beach gathering shell subjects and swimming, reading and doing some occasional sketchbook drawings.  The picture above was done maybe in June I think.  On a side note I've become (this will be of no interest to anyone I imagine-so the self assessment which follows must be proof positive of its accuracy) a Morrissey fan to the exclusion of just about all other music I listen to while working.  Who does that other than an obsessive, groupie sort of personality which I fear, at my "advanced age", I have become!!  Wish I had discovered him and The Smith's twenty-plus years ago!
On the subject of painting, particularly the piece above, I'm reminded to suggest to myself again and again:  "thing slowly, paint fast".

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This is cheating a bit I think.  I posted the outside of the oyster shell a few days ago...the astute observer will now know that I cropped the image and I should have indicated "detail" in the first instance.  Artistic wise guy, huh?  And, this image is of an 18" x 24" piece....the "outside" of the shell show below cropped from and not actually on that size sheet.  I'll be much more careful in the future!!

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Untitled
Oil on canvas
36" x 24"

This is something I'm still working on.  Started it about a month ago, maybe more recently and I plan to work on it today.