Flowers, again

Karen gave me some bulbs of the Susana Lily.  It is brown with orange highlights.  I used to paint a lot of flowers.   I think this is not the same old thing.

acrylic painting on canvas
Susana Lily

Open Says Me

I am struggling with not being able to open things.  Not just jars and tubes of paint.  Yet, I find a way.  This canvas was painted flat, on a ping pong table, not stretched and upright on an easel.  There are not as many drips, and I think the edges are fuzzy, because the paint oozed over the canvas.

abstract painting
Open Says Me

Discharge- first measure

Forrest said this painting reminded him of a musical score.  He’s working on synth music.  This part is about 3 ft. of a 15 ft. canvas.  The canvas was made for photo printing.  It buckles when it gets any moisture.  I’ve enjoyed tussling with the ups and downs of this canvas.

Discharge

Discharge- has many meanings

This is another painting on a word.  It is a way for me to enter an abstract place that is color, lines, and now puckers.  This is photo canvas that is 17 1/2″ wide, and comes on a roll.  I’ve joined three pieces that are five feet, with duct tape.  I don’t have a drone so the first photo is paralaxed.  I’m working on an old pingpong table, plus a couple more.  Today I was able to walk along and make continuous lines with charcoal.  The moisture in the paint affects the pucker.   Also, by working flat, the gravity pulls everything.  I’m used to letting it pull on the drips when I work vertically.  These panels may get a vertical treatment, or

17″ x15′ photo canvas

not.  

Discharge, like sneeze, fart, static electricity or a bomb.

Not a portrait

Jill took a wonderful photo of Donna and Charlie.  That is a portrait.  This painting is a remembrance.  Thank you, Jill.

Rememberance

Oak Leaves, ala Hockney

The milk carton paper is 25 1/2″ wide, except where there is water damage.   So the edges aren’t even.  This photo is an approximation of the way David Hockney did some of this photos.  Gregg did the Photoshop magic to put them back together again.  It is fall and the oak leaves are some of the last to fall, and prettiest colors.

Oak leaves -acrylic on paper

Shards of Students painting

On June 7, I posted a drawing for this painting.  I grew up in San Antonio, which is just down the road from Uvalde.  There is no way to make sense of mass shootings, which are now the norm.  The pink blocks stand for the families of the victims.

Shards of Students