Rejection.

almost happy

Happy is what I am trying to paint. This one may make it. Satisfied. Happy. Thoughtful. She knows a secret, perhaps, as most girls do...

Accept the News

Here is an image I worried over and now I think it's done, although I occasionally paint over things I don't like.

Last night, it looked like a creepy person. Today I think it looks like someone who has just heard some news that shocked them, and in the very next instant, they blink, and accept the news and decide how to react.

Laughter or tears, I wonder.

art for everyone

Here is my friend, Tim, holding his little bird sketch he got at my first art show. Tim is a wonderful cook and an interesting man. He wanted another bird I painted but someone else got that first, while he was serving the marvelous food he prepared for my party. Thanks, Tim!

Finishing the Face

New Work

I recently remembered that one of my daughters woke up one morning, when she was two and announced of reverence, "It turned blue! Last night it was pink and now it's blue!" I had been working on the painting at night while she slept. Recently I've taken to working over a couple of paintings I thought were finished.

Here are a couple of photos of pieces I've recently worked on:

My First Art Show!

Wow. It's like standing around with no clothes on, in front of an audience. I had my "old" art for sale (some from the 1970's), and put it all around my house, invited my friends and...well, here are a couple of pictures to share: