I got off axis from this panel to show the edges I painted. I was going to go w/ flat black edges, but the other panels look good with the wraparound.
trying acrylics
My FC studio has a propane heater and I can’t use oils when it’s lit. I got to work there today. These are two 30″ panels. I don’t know whether the doors will warp, but I put the paint on in washes. I really like the effect. I know I will put more paint on them, but maybe I can save some of the wash areas. The color is so delicate, and the panel is not.
top heavy
I’m more excited about the spirals, I don’t know why. This is going the right way, but as I post this I notice that all the spirals at the top are the same width. Break it up!
Yeah! Sunshine!
I worked more on the river. 
NYT article
On Feb. 14 Roberta Smith wrote an interesting article in the NYT. One paragraph resonated. “What’s missing is art that seems made by one person out of intense personal necessity, often by hand. A lot but not all of this kind of work is painting, which seems to be becoming the art medium that dare not speak its name where museums are concerned.”
I was wondering why art was now a manufacturing medium. Hooray for paint!
Tree of Life
More spirals. I need to emphasize the edge of the world at the bottom. Would different colors make this more appealing? Yeah, to who? Am I once again relying more on color than structure? Are my paintings skeletonless?