A place among the winners – follow up

Last month I shared that I had some of my work accepted into the ‘Seascapes’ show with an online gallery in the UK, and that they were going to create a little video of the winners, showing their art as it would look on a wall.  Well, HERE it is!

One of the advantages about online showcases is that the work doesn’t have to be available, and the particular painting that is in the video went to its forever home some time ago.  One of the disadvantages, I guess, of having someone mock-up the video is that the painting is depicted much larger than it actually is.  Oh well!

Newer Work #42

#1217 David’s Sunset. Oil on canvas, 39×17″. $550.

 

 

This skyscape was painted from a friend’s photograph of a sunset across the Pacific Ocean.  A bit of a departure for me as my usual sun-over-water paintings are sunrises.  Most west coasters think only of the sun going down into the water – but I live on a small stretch of land where it not only comes up over the water, but at about a month around winter solstice appears to come up out of the water.  (I just have to be weird.)  And of course this had to be a weird size of stretcher bars I up-cycled from somewhere I can’t remember.

 

Newer Work #18

I seem to be creating a lot more water pieces these days – this is one of them.

#1156 “Sailing Home” Mixed Media on panel 24×48″. $2,000.

The following poem is also painted into the painting.
“Sailing home.”
Sailing home, the setting sun
has gone, but left us golden skies
Sailing home, the day is done
the waning moon has yet to rise
Sailing home, so let night come
we’ll rest, relax and breathe deep sighs

Ocean’s View

Ocean’s View. Mixed media on deep panel. 36″x48″. $3,025.

The one place in the world where the sky is bigger than anywhere else is the ocean.  This, and the science behind the weather was the inspiration for the poem in this piece.  This painting was the front page of my website last month.  Now you can see it on it’s own page within the collages page, where you can also see what it would look like in a room.

Ocean’s View

The ocean sees the vastest skies
and stars from moonset to sunrise,
the clouds from its own body brewed
that rain back down to it, renewed.
No wonder it reflects the dome,
the wondrous sky that it calls home

Newer work #9

#1143 Ocean’s Draw. Mixed Media on deep panel, 36″x36″. $2,260.

This one I don’t have any doubts about.  I had it on the wall for a long time before it went into the box ready to go to its first show in Menlo Park next week.  I wrote the following poem for it and painted it into the painting.

Ocean’s Draw

The days of ocean sailing past
the waters flown to feel less vast
and yet its power remains, for we
relax, when gazing ‘cross the sea.

Ocean’s Draw

#1143, Ocean’s Draw. 36″x36″ Mixed media on panel. $2260,

A couple have commissioned me to paint a large waterscape for their new living room and they’d like me to deliver it and put the finishing touches on it, then stay for the rest of the weekend.  Oh hardship, they are dear friends who have moved to Rosarita Beach. I must be looking forward to the long weekend that I’m going to be spending by the ocean;  in the last week I have completed two ocean paintings.  Well, they’re mostly sky – you know me, but they both have the ocean in them and ocean poetry on them.  This one is going to be on the cover of my next poetry book, Mixed Weather, which I hope to have out by mid August.  Here’s the poem written for it and painted into it:

Ocean’s Draw

The days of ocean sailing past
the waters flown to feel less vast
and yet its power remains, for we
relax, when gazing ‘cross the sea.