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Saturday, June 5, 2010

Desert Lace

This is another collage reworked. Again, I'm not sure it's finished. It's funny how things look finished, then you take a photograph of them, and you see things that you didn't see before - like that dark line going diagonally across the painting -- soooooo....back to the easel.

Oil Spill

Damn BP. Having known folks who made their living off drilling for oil, I understand the excitement when a well comes in, and the money starts rolling in. It's pretty hard to think disaster, but no drilling is ever clean - no matter where you are.

Greed

Sometimes I just gotta say it. This and the painting before are statements about what's going on in the world

New York

This was a failed collage that had absolutely nothing going for it except a little texture provided by some rice paper. Although the color in this photograph doesn't do it justice, it's a really nice piece now.

Chrysler Building and Friends

Also an old painting that I tore up and reworked. Sometimes a more interesting image comes from that process.

Escape

This is a collage that I also reworked. Better now, but I'm not sure it's finished. I'll put it on the wall and look at it for a few days and see if something else develops.

Window to the Past

This is an old painting that I did in a workshop several years ago. Like most workshop paintings, they don't really have time to gel into something you like. So, reworking has been an exercise that I've enjoyed. I like it now.

Bird Food


It's been a really long time since I have painted anything, and this last weekend, I made up for it. All the things I've been wanting to do came spilling out. Sunday was a delight because I had my good buddies Ava and Shiela in the studio painting with me.

I've always thought that you cannot create in a vacuum.

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About Me

I was married - for a really long time to the most interesting man in the world - Wayne Harmon. He is gone now, but never forgotten. We have one child, and two amazing grandchildren. I've been painting all my life, and consider myself a born teacher and a story teller.