Newer drawing

18" x 24"
Charcoal and pastel on paper

Charcoal/pastel figure

18" x 24"

Officially fall

Near Conway, Massachusetts
Oil on canvas
24" x 36"

I've fussed with this picture for so long....well maybe eight or nine months...that I think I just have to stop.  While on a drive last October I stumbled upon some really pretty scenery in Conway, took lots of photos and did maybe a dozen oil and watercolor pieces, including this.  It is the largest and for that reason, perhaps, it has occupied my attention far more than any of the others.  Maybe it looks that way?  Has had too much attention?  Not really sure it's integrated and balanced well; some of the phrases maybe don't go with others.....the foreground is maybe in a different "language"?  An artist friend, whose opinion I value, offered early on in my work on this that it looked like three pictures!  I think I've reduced it to no more than two!

Ocean and shore

Watercolor and gouache on Canson artboard
16" x 20"

Lots of lifting on this.  One of the things I like about doing w/c especially on this support.

From that to this

Untitled
Oil on canvas
24" x 36"

Somehow what started out below evolved into the image above.  I'm still looking at the piece which means that it might evolve further but I'm tending to want to move on from it so maybe it is done!!

Recent Effort

Gouache on clayboard
c. 18" x 24"

"path to another's time"

36" x 48"
Oil on canvas

This is done......I say that knowing my pension for returning to pieces, so we'll see.  But I do actually think it is, for now, a finished item.  And I plan to enter it in a competition this week, a show at the South Shore Arts center in Cohasset which begins in November, I think.  Revealing that intention however is likely the kiss of death.  Seems each time I announce my next move vis a vis getting the work seen the judges decide otherwise.