my life at fifty

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work as of January 2007

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2006-06-11T00:24:00.000-07:00

crossing the river sticks

the scare crow 2x3 feet oil on canvas

2006-06-06T01:24:00.000-07:00

2006-05-24T21:43:00.000-07:00

a room with three views

2006-05-24T21:41:00.000-07:00

ya give Lemons

2006-05-24T21:33:00.000-07:00

recent work

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2006-04-21T00:29:00.000-07:00

2inch x 3inch, my first minature.

2006-04-08T23:05:00.000-07:00

A small still life study I did years ago that I never quite liked recently gone over with my new knowlege applied. Much more dramatic now, more accomplished as well. Regretably I did not take a before picture... 12 x 12 inches, oil on canvas

2006-04-08T22:50:00.000-07:00

2006-04-08T22:46:00.000-07:00

Mountain Bather, 4ft by 5ft. Oil on canvas. Done in my Washington Studio the first week of May.

2006-03-28T13:59:00.000-08:00

he liked it when the wind blew through his hair, 6x8 inches

2006-03-21T22:12:00.000-08:00

Midlife crisis, version 3

2006-03-21T22:00:00.000-08:00

He was of two minds, 5"x7", oil on board

2006-03-21T21:58:00.000-08:00

Venus Rising

2006-03-21T21:55:00.000-08:00

AT THE RIVER STYX, VERSION TWO, 24"x24" oil on board

2006-03-21T21:47:00.000-08:00

at the river sticks, version one and two

2006-03-17T18:50:00.000-08:00

Hilltop with trees no. 2

2006-03-17T18:47:00.000-08:00

detail from at the river sicks

2006-03-08T19:20:00.000-08:00

blue tree, version one

2006-03-07T00:56:00.000-08:00

the wave: finished

2006-03-07T00:51:00.000-08:00

midlife crisis, updated

2006-03-07T00:44:00.000-08:00

yellow box with flower

2006-02-22T16:00:00.000-08:00

female primate, this is the first of this series.

2006-02-22T15:38:00.000-08:00

end of flowering, fruition now.

2006-02-22T15:31:00.000-08:00

final version of mid life crisis

2006-02-22T15:28:00.000-08:00

oak tree, sonoma 2006

2006-02-22T15:20:00.000-08:00

Trees on hill, Sonoma, 2006

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The wave

2006-02-22T15:12:00.000-08:00

This the final version of "its only natural"

2006-02-16T22:42:00.000-08:00

This is a digital mock up of where I am thinking of going with the original "it's only natural" painting... (scroll down for earlier post showing it at it's present state) the monotone paintings are what I call drawings or underpaintings. They are known as Grasiles, the tonal aspect of certain kinds of old master paintings. For me they are a natual and powerfull way to develop images directly on canvases, so I call them drawings... 20 some years ago I could not figure out a satisfying way to add color and keep all the wonderfull imagery this technique opens up for me, so I switched to trying to get the same kind of energy directly with colors... this lead to an expressive maner and a flatening and cartooning of the images... (a la Soutine) the paint came to dominate rather then the image-ination. When I began painting in Sonoma in preparation for my big art adventure coming up this summer in Santa Fe I was working on producing and perfecting and experimenting with the direct painting techniques I have been largly using this past 20 years (earliler post; man reading newspaper). I would begin each painting though with one of these underpaintings, and Jill kept saying I was ruining the painting by moving away from the spirit of the priliminary painting. So I have now decided to return to my old experiements and see what the 20 years of explorations in color will do...

2006-02-16T22:24:00.000-08:00

man reading newspaper

2006-02-16T22:09:00.000-08:00

Pomegranite on blue plate

2006-02-16T21:46:00.000-08:00

On becoming 50: Mid-life Crisis

2006-02-16T21:42:00.000-08:00

On turning 50: Denial

2006-02-16T21:35:00.000-08:00

On Becoming 50: It's Only Natural