Good Friday, April 2,2021

 A "work in progress." 30"x40" canvas -acrylic background and oils and brushes. It's been so long since I've done easel work with oils and brushes and it felt exhilarating. Something from the garden. "Tiger Lillies."

Thursday, April 1st.

 No fooling' around here- bunch of new work to post and I'm very excited by the direction and moreover, the clarity. Hope you enjoy it. And The Orange Toxic Blob is still gone! Hooray!

                               36"x48" Acrylic base then oil/oil sticks. "Torn Curtain." Thanks, Hitch.

                        18"x24" heavy paper- Aussie acrylics with oil stick border- "Australian Skies"

                                Same dims and media as above. "Seascape #6"

All oils/oil sticks 36"x36" "Macbeth's Weird Sisters."

              18"x24" canvas Aussie acrylics and oil stick border "Pink Clouds, Red River and Green Hills."

           18"x24" heavy canvas paper. Acrylic pouring paint and graphite markings. "Just   

                                        Like A Ballerina."

18"x24" heavy paper Aussie acrylics, gold acrylic overlay and oil stick border. "Red Landscape #1"

                            24"x36" canvas Aussie acrylics and oil stick border. "New Mexico Sunset"

So,  after  almost three years, I've figured who I am as a painter. "I'm just a clapped out landscape painter." I can live with that. After the demise of five years+ of profound gaslighting on an institutional level from the executive branch, I am breathing easier and painting freely. Om Mani Padme Hum." Stay safe....

Monday, March 15th, 2021

 Nothing to beware of here, Julius! Lit major joke... two very recent pieces that push me out into the deep end, stylistically but I think still keeps me grounded in color and effect.

"Colored Rain On A Window Pane" 30"x40" acrylic layers. Oil stick border and linseed oil/bee's wax finish.

"Primary Colors" 18"x24" study. Iridescent pearl acrylic base coat with acrylics on top. Oil stick border.

And the good news remains, "Voldemort" is still gone. Let the healing begin. Peace/Out

Thursday, March 4, 2021

 Time has this frightening capacity to escape, no matter how tightly we grasp it or conversely, let it go.

Anyway, on to the show n tell. Four new pieces that are worth viewing.

"Bondi Beach #1  18"x24" study. Turkey Red oil stick border with Derivan Matisse flow acrylics which are made in Australia and are my new favorite paints. This is a study piece. The larger version is below.

"The Ghosts Of Christmas Past"- 30"x40" oil stick border and acrylics with bee's wax finish

"Bondi Beach #2" 30"x40" apple red acrylic enamel base with those yummy Aussie acrylics on top.

 

"Original Sin" 30"x40" -there are three different paintings under this puppy. Base coat is oil enamel yellow with oil stick markings.

Thank you so much for looking. Take care, be kind...and mask up! And oh yeah, Trump is still gone!

Thurs. January 14th, 2021

 Hard to believe that I've not posted in a month and a half. It's not because of a lack of work to post but moreover it's the daily assault on sensibility and dignity that has crippled me. Words cannot convey the outrage and horror as a result of this insurrection and sedition draped in the false cloak of so-called patriotism. 

But History will judge and record the actions of these evil people and it will not be kind but will be true. All tyrants meet the same end, discarded into The Dustbin of Mediocrity and Disdain-

In no particular order, work from the last two months-

Not a good photo but it captures the gist. On canvas paper (18x24) with a base of acrylic pouring paint then overlaid with acrylic and ink and then scrapped to reveal staining . Has no title, yet. It'll tell me it's name, in time.

"Christmas In Miami"- 30"x40"- I bought some acrylic paint and didn't look at it closely and was shocked  at it's "thinness"- it didn't cover. Turns out the paint is meant to be poured directly onto the canvas. I did multiple layers and then scrapped it off. A layer of gold acrylic and then finally overlays of red and teal oil paint.

30"x40" "Tiny Dancer"- the deep violet background is acrylic and then the rest is oil sticks manipulated with the markings in oil pastels. It has a home with our friends, Jeff and Cindy.

This is a small canvas 18"x24" and is all in brushed oils over oil pastels. "Vermeer Study."

This is 48"x96" unprimed canvas all oil paint. "Astral Weeks." The images below are closeups of the work which I hope capture the details and labor. I'm very proud of this and look forward to having it stretched and framed.

Thanks for looking and  I want to leave todays post on a positive; on January 20th, we will hopefully usher a new era in American Life- a measured and scientific response to this Pandemic and a return to civil life.

Monday, Nov. 30th 2020

 New work that on the surface appears to be a departure but makes sense to me. 18"x24" oil pastels thinned and rubbed and then gone over again on a grey acrylic background.

                                                "Adirondack Chairs."

Friday November 20

 While the ass clown continues to propel us down his narcissistic rabbit hole, people are suffering and this must end! I don't want to exert another iota of effort or opprobrium towards "him." Painting continues to be my salvation- that and Lulu's love.

Latest offerings...mixed media-oil.acrylics, oil pastels and charcoal. 

Close up of "Goethe's Old Werther" 30"x40"

Full size.