Self-portrait as a child

Water color and pastel
on paper
18" x 24"

I did this fourteen or fifteen years ago, from a black and white photograph.  One of my very first efforts with water color painting....actually with painting!  Although I think it is interesting,  the ambiguity of it is something I sometimes find unsettling.  I think the boy looks much older than the five or so year old I was at the time the photo was taken.  When I made the picture I was frequently called to consider my childhood.

Mixed media/sketch

18" x 24"
Charcoal and water color
on paper

I've been cruising around gallery websites and reading about marketing strategy for would-be professional picture makers.  Don't know if I should feel discouraged or not; there's a certain "finish" lacking in a large portion of what I do and nothing seems to go in a straight line.....I guess that's what I see on the gallery sites: a polish or finish to the work displayed and lots of the same technique.  Anyway, I like doing what I'm doing and I learn from the work and I think I grow in the process of it all.

More ink

Ink on paper

Sketchbook/ink figure

Did this in 2011 sometime; just scanned it the other day.

Broken

3" x 5"
Ink on paper

Beach combing may be over soon; maybe can squeeze in one more trip.
At the moment I am feeling that my work needs to take a calculated course correction and that instead of playing I need to become, somehow, "serious" about it.....but maybe with luck that notion will pass!!  In a way I hope it will but I really do want to change a few things up.  Like use less random color.  We'll see.

Ink/gouache

Something I did earlier in the summer.

View From the Top

Ink on paper
3" x 5"