In The Studio 16x20 Acrylic

I have had a hankering to work on a larger scale. So I am feeding my hankering.

Max 18x24 Acrylic

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Due to colds and commissions, I haven't posted the past week. This is the finished version of the preliminary study posted earlier.

Out Of The Darkness 11x14 Acrylic

For almost a week, I've had one of those sore throat, head cold, chest cold thingamabobs. Good to get it out of the way early, but it puts a damper on the painting time. I hardly ever paint on a dark background like this for fear it come across like a velvet Elvis, but somehow today I just wanted a dark background.

I have been tagged and am supposed to come up with 7 unusual things about me (what about me ain't unusual), so stayed tuned.

When I was seventeen 22x28 Oil

As I was going through my mother's belongings, I found this painting tucked away. I painted it when I was seventeen, in the infancy stages of my painting. I think all artists evolve pretty much the same. We begin as cameras, reproducing every leaf, every rock, every tiny detail. As we progress, we realize we are not cameras, but poets. Then the artistic journey really begins.

Funny, I remember exactly where I painted this and the silly high school tramas that were going on at the time. I was painting with oils here. The allergies didn't hit me until years later.