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″.
Christmas in July
If I’m going to use a painting for my Christmas cards, I have to start working on it now. I have a holly bush, and thought it was sufficiently festive.
smaller and smaller
Jen gave me a bunch of small canvases. I usually work large, and I’ve been looking at these little things since Christmas. I’m going to paint each one from the image of a red daylily. Here’s 12″ and 5″.
New series
I have an assortment of small canvases. I usually work large, but I’m going to do the same image on each of them. This is the largest, at 12″x12″. I continue to pursue a place between representation and abstraction.
Holly, too.
I worked on Holly again. This morning it looked like an abstract from the 40’s. Not exactly what I had in mind. I want to balance between representational and abstract. Hopefully that isn’t just a boring place.