Vision

This is a piece I started last year.  There are about 30 pieces of monofilament threaded thru the iris.Vision

more Holly

I’m on the fence, about Holly whether to give a recognizable element of a plant, or to go completely abstract.   I don’t think you’d recognize this as a holly bush without the title.

more Holly

More paint, but I’m struggling with the greens.  Or maybe it’s the yellow.

Holly
Holly

simmered

One of the luxuries of being able  to work on my art every day, is that I can let a painting simmer, until I’m ready to get back to it.   This landscape7-6-11 has been bugging me, just one little part.  I hung it in our living room, and I knew I would have to do more work.  Now I’m not afraid of “destroying” a painting.  I hear deKooning say “kill it, and bring it back to life.”  To me it’s like kids and dogs, you can’t let them or YOUR painting win.

Unease-redux

I’ve added more collage elements.  The pupil of her right eye is a disc from a computer drive.  On the detail you can see my reflection.  The blue in her hat is from some heavy paper I found here in the gym.  I looked up polymer resin.  I wonder if it would preserve the charcoal marks, or just make a big mess.  Too expensive to experiment.7-1-11a7-1-11b