Newer work #116

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#1447 Golden Dawn. Mixed media on panel, 17×9″. $100. The following poem is written for and painted into the painting:
Look up to the sky –
the sun lights the clouds on fire
at the edge of day.

Grey Cube Gallery

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“The Road to Selfoss” Oil on gallery wrap canvas, 22×30″.

I may not be leaving the house, but I am in a show! This painting won an honorable mention in the Grey Cube Gallery “Skies” show this month.

Newer work #112

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1443 “Spinning World”. 17×9″ Mixed Media on solid panel. $110 Contains the poem:
The earth spins around
Twirling the clouds and making
The sun seems to rise.

Newer work #111

Here’s the second painting that was created for the Joshua Tree competition.

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#1403 Joshua Gateway. Mixed media on reclaimed panel. 29×30″.

Newer work #109

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1442 “Little Wisps”. Refractured watercolor on hand cut panel, 15×16″. $100. The following poem is written for and painted into the painting:
I love these little wisps at dawn –
the colored threads, painted by sun,
ribbons heralding the morn
with hues that say the day’s begun.

Newer work #105

This painting was partially worked on during a demonstration a couple months ago.  I didn’t complete it until a little while later.

#1438 Turquoise jewels. Refractured watercolor on solid panel. 17.5×10″. $175.
The following poem is written for and painted into the painting:
Turquiose Jewels
Dawn leaves me speechless
these gold and turquoise jewels
precious beyond words.

Newer work #99

This is the last of a series of collages available in mats.

#1427 Fit Together. Watercolor collage on foamcore, 7.5×5.5 in mat to fit 10×8″ frame. $45.
Includes the words “It will all fit together beautifully”.

Sunrises and Sunsets

I had a painting accepted in the Sunrises and Sunsets Art Exhibit, held by Fusion Arts.  There’s no excuse for not seeing this exhibit, despite the current closure of most facilities, because it’s online.  Happy to see that my friend Diane Morgan won one of the awards.

La Mirada talk and demo

Last week I went to the monthly meeting of the La Mirada Art Club to talk about my work and demonstrate part of my process for them.  I was fortunate that one of the members agreed to take some pics of me working while I was assembling the refractured watercolor.

Here’s the empty room, just when I’d set up.

After having watched me brutally hack up my painting, I start by assembling the horizon. 

I usually am looking at the sky the ‘right way up’…..

…and I usually start with the top of the sky….

Now it’ starting to come together.

Sliding some deeper blue under other pieces.

Well folks, that’s all we have time for tonight.

This is the layout that I created at the demo, but I just picked up the pieces without marking their places.

This is the final product

The poem in it reads:

Dawn leaves me speechless

These gold and turquoise jewels

precious beyond words.

 

An award

I was happy to learn recently that in the 3rd Annual Skies Art Exhibition at Fusion Arts I received an Honorable Mention for the painting below.

“Sunrise with Creosote” Oil on canvas 30×40″. $1500.