# 325: Short Shorts

24" x 18" oil on canvas

#324: Apple Boundries

6" x 6" oil on canvas

A nice traditional still life again. When I start getting insecure about my new endeavors, I can always go back to these little efforts.

# 323: Campanula

7" x 5" oil on canvas

not much to say. it is a bit out of balance and flowers and leaves till tend to elude my efforts to capture them on canvas...I need to remember to squint and to look for larger areas of value and color.

# 322: Around the Bend

8" x 10: oil on canvas

Another small abstract study which I plan to paint in a larger scale.It was fun painting it and I think that I may even like it.

# 321: The Shore

11" x 14" oil on canvas board

14" x 11"

Here are two attempts at Plein Aire painting. i went to the beach last week before I got smacked down by a cold. I find it very difficult to see the colors when painting outside. It is also very conventional. Though the second composition is a bit more interesting, neither is very good.....but I will keep working at it

# 320: Hotel Lobby Blues

14" x 11" oil on canvas board

Consistency has not been one of my virtues lately. I am finally at the end of suffering through a terrible cold which my excuse for not posting and because I am exploring new things, my work has been a bit "eclectic" ( i.e. all over the place). 

Here is another study with the intent of being more abstract and contemporary in color palette and approach. Though I got a bit fussy with the details at the end, I kind of like it.

# 319: Two Bananas

8" x 8" oil on canvas

# 318: Gisala and Oliver

12" x 12" acrylic on canvas

This is a small study that I did for a larger piece. I made some bold color choices and I like it. It feels like I turned a corner and finally found a path that suits me. This is the direction that I want to go with my work....it is the type of art that I can live with. The palette was heavily influenced by William Theophilos Brown who I recently discovered through the book Bay Area Figurative art. here is one of his pieces (though not the piece that influenced the palette above.)

# 317: Figure Study 3

14" x 11" oil on canvas

Another quick 1/2 hour study from the same model. I like the movement of this one, the the shapes are a bit choppy.

# 316: Figure Study 2

14" x 11" oil on canvas

This is  a quick 1/2 hour study. I haven't done quick oil studies like this before and i was a bit fearful, but it seems that i do better when I don't have too much time to think. I did four of these yesterday and for the most part they turned out well. This is a glimpse of what one of may paintings may look like before I proceed to overwork it.

# 315: Four Grannies

8" x 8" oil on canvas

It is nice to get back to basics.

# 314: Home Turf

12" x 9" oil on canvas

Another abstract. Once again, I am unable to judge it, except that his one has been hanging on my wall and it speaks to. Wish I knew the language it was speaking though and that it could tell me if it was done or not and if it not what to do to go about finishing it.

# 313: Ascent

24" x 18" oil on canvas

And now for something completely different (for me at least). Today, in my painting class we worked on really getting abstract and this is what I came up with. I sort of liked it, but my teacher said that some of the color and line is juvenile. I don't know if it is done yet, in fact I hardly know how to judge this at all...help

# 312: Madonna Type

20" x 16" oil on canvas

Well I had some good moments painting this, but in the end, I am disappointed. I got too tight and lost the freshness of the painting in the end...try too hard fixing mistakes and making it"right" rather than compelling.....Talking about right, how the heck did that right arm get so long? Still..for three hours it isn't too bad and like I said, there were moment, where I thought..."hey, look at me, I'm painting!"

but now that more I look at this painting the more I hate it!

#311: Bakers Dozen

9" x 12" oil on masonite panel

# 310: Little Belle

12" x 9" oil on panel

# 309: Six

6" x 6" oil on canvas

There was an attempt in this painting to edit and simplify the shapes.

# 308: Figure Study

24" x 18" oil on canvas

This is a 2 hour study done in my painting class today. I have been working on applying more abstract color and on painting larger. I would not say that this is done and am mulling over whether I would try to finish it. Does it have potential?

# 307: Polish

6" x 6" oil on canvas

# 306: Back-up

6" x 6" oil on canvas