Storm’s Coming

A local farmer dropped by my studio today, just as I was starting this painting.  I was very loosely laying in orange swirls.  His question was whether I had a plan, or was just painting.  The answer is both.  We’ve had lots of big thunderstorms this summer.  The clouds before the rain are dynamic, to say the least.  Are the clouds wilder because of global warming?  Is everything just fine, politically and environmentally?  I’m pretty sure there’s a storm coming.   

I hope to post pix of this painting in progress.  First is sketch in chalk on brown paper.  The painting is acrylic on a gallery wrapped canvas 36″x24″.  I like to paint around the wrapped edges, avoiding frames.  So BT, I hope this helps you get what I’m trying to do.  I do not blame your skepticism that it will turn into anything.  But as a farmer, you probably get the idea of continuing to try.

Splenectomy

In 2016 I needed a new hip.  I got my spleen removed instead, to cure Chronic ITP.  That didn’t work.  Lots of my paintings with ovals represent platelets, or the lack of.  The 2018 painting ,ala, Frida Kahlo, is of that surgery.  

Alonso Davis

In a summer session at the San Antonio Art Institute(now gone)  Alonso Davis challenged me.  Do you want to think of yourself as an artist, or a housewife?  Made me mad, so I painted Dogs of Hell.  After he set us up to paint a mural (on a barber shop wall)  I designed, helped paint, and finished the 10’x20′ mural, that stayed there for ten years.    I chose artist.  Thanks, Alonso Davis, west coast muralist.

Other extreme

495000 was the count after everything they threw at me in the hospital, early this month.   Up from 6000 platelets.  Norm is 300000.  Blood, we’re working on it.  Painting is good!495000-blog

Broken Fishing Lines

This small painting has monofilament lines embedded into the surface.  This is a problem in our oceans.  On show at HCAC Small works show.broken-fishing-lines-blog

Blue Corner

This is one of five of my paintings on show at the Haywood County Arts Council Small Works Show, thru Dec.  There are many artists represented.  Which one is your favorite?blue-corner-blog