Light Comes Streaming In

I'm trying to work with fewer forms and more color and stroke.  It's less about the image being portrayed and more about the emotional response to the painting.  I find this approach much more difficult than painting realistic forms.  Hard is good.



Light Comes Streaming In  40"x40"

What Happens to Paintings

Sipapu Stream - 1

Sometimes paintings just have to change - in this case from a very flat view of space to a view of objects with more weight and shape.   I enjoy aspects of both views, but the second one is where it ends up this time.

Sipapu Streaming - 2
 

Prints again

I'm still in love with this ceramic dog from Aspen - he showed up again in this print named "Sniff".   16"x26" framed.

New Prints

Back to Printmaking.  These prints are a combination of Lithography and Silkscreen.  Underlayers are produced in color inks from drawn Litho plates, then overscreened with a different image and different colors.  All inspired by nature and this past summer's travels in the American West.

 
 

Anderson Ranch

I just got back from Aspen and Anderson Ranch, a lovely art ranch filled with art happenings and classes.  Coincidentally there was a symposium on "Making the Change you Want to See" there, where Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave director) spoke.  I took a class from Emilio Perez on abstraction and layering.  Here are a few paintings from that week.  So fun.

Aspen Skies 36"x36"

Blue Skies Shining 40"x30"



Bud Series-Floating 40"x30" - at Mecox

Little Dog Sees Spots  30" x 40"

Near Seymour Texas 30"x40"

A Week In Taos

I just spent 6 days in Taos,New Mexico with a plein air painting group led by Suzanne Kelley-Clark.  We spent part of each day in the field, part in the studio.  Taos weather is predictably changeable, going from extreme dryness to afternoon monsoon rains with boiling clouds and lightning.  It's best to get indoors when those clouds decide to break open.

 

These paintings were an effort to capture the mood and beauty of the subject space in a minimalistic and graphic representation.

 





Chollo Canyon 40"x40"

Fuzzy Flowers 40"x40" - at Mecox
 




Grand Canyon Dreaming

After 8 days rafting thru the Grand Canyon in May, I dreamed every night about riding down the Colorado River.  During the day we (fourteen souls) bounced down the river rapids on a big raft driven by our experienced guides from Arizona Raft Adventures.  We took side hikes to see the beautiful turquoise water of the Little Colorado, the ancient pictograms, and canyon waterfalls.  At night we slept on cots thrown down in the sand a few feet from the river, and lay under innumerable stars and (later) the full moon.  Any light for reading brought swooping bats and moths.  Had to do a couple of drawings/paintings, just to get the experience out of my daily consciousness.

This view is from the Navaho Bridge at the beginning of our trip, near put-in at Lee's Ferry. 

Feathered Friends

I like the imagery of birds.  Birds come in all shapes, sizes, colors, and designs.  Fierce occupants of the trees, bushes, ground and skies, they exist all over the earth.  We envy their flight and admire their coats.  Wouldn't it be nice if the dodo bird and the passenger pigeon were still around?  Here are some of my favorites from the Texas landscape.  These prints are combinations of Lithograph and Serigraph, and measure 24" x 20".

Bobwhite Quail
 

Blue Heron
 

Mockingbird