I did myself a big favor and got some work done in the studio today and yesterday. It felt really good to just paint 
I started a new painting. Yippie!
I had a charcoal outline of a veery bird clenched in a hand hanging out on this small canvas for… oh I dunno… two weeks? Last night after spending many hours working on a different painting I decided to throw some paint on it and see what happened. Also, I figured out how to do new cool stuff with my camera, so I had this self portrait to work with. I think this may be the dawn of something (beautiful?) with self-portraiture.
I know the hand is all messed up, but the paint needs to dry a bit before I can work on it any more.
Of course, I continued to work on this strange field painting. It’s pretty close to done. How can I tell? I’m getting annoyed with it. LOLs.
I’m liking the play of surface, especially in the sky/clouds.
Aaand I have a drawing for another new painting that I am biting at the bit to start!
Oh look, more self portraiture
About a month and half ago, I went to Portsmouth to go fishing with my brother, nephew & fiance. There was a dead seagull carcass there. I was immediately intrigued and snapped a picture on my fiance’s phone. Much to my surprise, the photo came out pretty good and I have been pondering over how I was going to use it ever since. Now I just need to decide what I want to paint it on. Paper? Panel? Canvas???
Finally, when I was in PA checking out Carnegie Mellon I took some pics of abandoned, decaying buildings. They will also def. be the subject of some future work. I will leave you with a couple snapshots. XOXO Readers.
Houses and trailers are nestled just beside an abandoned and crumbling large distillery.
Just beyond the trees… This used to be someones home. Does it belong to anyone now?
