If you come to a fork in the road...

This follows my previous post which was the beginning of

some grapevines and foliage. In the beginning it had already

turned to a more interpretive approach to the unknown at that

point. Now here it is at it's current stage. Finished? I don't know,

but definitely done for now.

Time out for medical leave. I'll be back in late February to determine

if I took the right fork in the road, so you've got plenty of time to

leave your honest opinions. In a few weeks I'll catch up with you and

see the footprints you've left behind. So for now ...Shaka

(means "hang loose" in Hawaii)

Watercolor in Progress

This is slightly larger than the last post.

It's progressing with more thought but still

with left and right hands. My goal is to emphasize

watercolors effects along with techniques.

The finished piece will come along in a couple of days.

Beginning

I'm not going to jumble this up

with my thoughts and reasons for things.

It may have something, maybe a future.

You tell me!

5 x 7 watercolor on cold press.

broad strokes were left handed and

a few details were done with the right.

Sorry this is such a funky reproduction.

The little bubble's are actually dark spots.

Unfortunately they were still shiny when I

copied it. Hence the crappy little bubbles

and poor quality.

Cropped!

A small portion of a large not so hot painting.

I'm posting this only to stay in touch.

A few days ago as I sprawled with a "what just

happened look" between two cars I new I wouldn't

be painting for a while except maybe left handed.

Tore up my bicep muscle and the right arm is

currently painful and useless. Could've been worse

as they say.

Anyway, didn't want you all to think I've just walked

away from the blog world. Nope, right here ...

and if I can get my wife to type for me, I'll be responding.

Until later friends.

Bummed out!

Hawk Meadows Revisited

9 x 12 plein air watercolor on cold press arches.

Plain and simple traditional approach. I'll always

revisit this style along the way. Searching for

new vitality, enthusiasm and passion.

Hawk Meadows

Things weren't happening in the studio today, so I escaped.

Drove down the road aways to Hawk Meadows, a local walking

and hiking park. There I can park and paint in the car.

I noticed something right away ... I was using a small palette

with small pans of color. The colors weren't as strong as

fresh paint in the studio palette. Kind of soft and

transparent. Hopefully I can take that back to the studio

and put it to work. I think I'm going to do plein air more

often. No time to think and let intuition take it's course.

The photo's are blurry because I didn't want to drag out the

tripod. Later maybe. Let me know what you think.

From Real to Fiction

Frustrated by the mud strewn larger painting, I chose to

crop out 5 tiny abstracts. You say, "well that's cheating"

and I say "first you have to have enough sense to decide to

crop. Then you have to choose where to crop. Of course this

takes up to 45 years of experience. If you believe all that then

I've got 5 little abstracts that I'll sell cheap. It was a fun conclusion

to a very sad painting.