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Category: artwork
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Abstract Nature Studies on Paper
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To try and stay loose with my painting, I like to create these small abstract nature studies on paper. I call them smalls. It’s not always as easy as it looks. First, I started with mark making, then paint sploshing and swishing, carving into wet paint with the end of my brush handle and smudging…
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Rain, rain and more rain
Rain has been the big word this month, not Valentine’s Day. It’s rained so much and not really in days, but in the amount. Today, for the third time this month we’ve had 2″ of rain and for the third time this month, I’ve had to clean up a mess in my art studio because…
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A deeper look at Clinging to Life series
Clinging to Life is a series of paintings I painted expressing my emotions of what I felt I was witnessing during the short battle my mother had with cancer. Feeling that I never really explained much of what they meant to me, I wanted to dive a bit deeper into them and their meaning to…
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Recent commissioned artwork
Before the time gets away from me and I forget, I wanted to share with you some commissioned artwork I did for Christmas. These two are quite unique. I’ve never been asked to paint either on vintage McCoy pottery or on a rock! Both were quite fun. I’ve painted on plastic table tops before and…
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Swirling Water and Koi Fish painting and prints
Just last Friday I finished this new koi fish painting of two koi swimming in swirling teal waters. It’s a commission but I am offering prints for it in a few sizes. I love painting koi fish, I’ve painted a few on various things like terra cotta pots, patio tables and I’ve made art block…
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And just like that, it was September
How can time pass as quickly as it does? I really don’t know, but I find myself with a week of September already gone. The garden has a different feel now. It smells different, but I’m not sure how to explain the smell. It’s been really hot the last few weeks so it’s not like…
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On my easel a carnival is going on!
Just a quick post this evening. I’ve got a painting on my easel that, to me, has a carnival like feeling to it. It started out a lot different, but I can’t find a shot of it. I actually painted pretty much over everything that was there before. I was downright reckless. Ha ha… Sometimes…