The progression was collage last winter, painting flowers on small canvases in the spring, and now painting on collage. This one will be primed and the same image of the red daylily will be painted over it. The idea is that when man starts bioengineering and fiddling with plant genomes in order to corner the market on food production, there are unexpected consequences.
Vision
I worked on this, some more.
putting the time in
The more time I put in at the studio, the more I get out of the experience
. Huh!
Vision
This is a piece I started last year. There are about 30 pieces of monofilament threaded thru the iris.
more Holly
I’m on the fence, about 
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.
Unease
I added the center panel today. sorry the photo’s blurry.
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 landscape
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.
Tiny painting
Last year I did some really big paintings. This year I’m going the other 
direction. This painting is 5″x5″. I’ve done a series of six, the smallest is 1″x2″.