Phoenix Night -

New Mexico

On a Clear Winter Night - This limited palette nocturne, purely invented, gave me an allowance of freedom to explore options. Working with the idea of what a painting might need is often more enjoyable than competing to only capture reality.

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Light Cut Orange -

SOLD - Tea and Stripes - This piece was born from more of a color standpoint than anything else. Focusing on something in the process of painting and making it the priority allows for the other issues to be open and more malleable.

Curled In - The simplest of subjects, can often create huge obstacles to confront. Sometimes the simple is not so easy.

Box and Slice - I have been working on and thinking about paint application and surface quality a lot. trying different mediums, whites and grounds.

SOLD - White Rose - This piece was a bigger fight than usual. I almost gave up on it several times. Sometimes the struggle pays off, sometimes it doesn't. I am glad I fought through it in the end.

SOLD - Medicine Bottle - I enjoyed the challenge that the brown glass medicine bottle presented to me in this piece.

Yellow and Blue - I had an immediate attraction for this and found painting it a pleasure.

Lemon Slice - In todays painting I was able to use a very limited palette and make an impact through other means.

Pill Box - Simple things can be great subjects. The subtle relationships of color and value where white on white occurs is always interesting to paint.