Looking For Life

I've been working on this one and another for
several months. This one is finally done I think. 24 x 36.

Etsy

I have cards made up of some of my climate change paintings (series 1) and they are now available on Etsy - new link off to the right there on this blog. Also I now have paintings at the Osmosis Gallery in Niwot.

Yin/Yang

Had a little time last night and having a refrigerator stocked with garden eggplants decided to paint a few of them on a scrap of board I had handy.  Yin/Yang, 6 x 8. Still working on the last picture from the previous post.

revised

I changed a lot of things on this. Once you see them photographed you start to see things you want to change. So here's a newer version. Am I done yet?  Doubt it. I think it's getting better.

Still focused on that ditch

So - here's another ditch picture. I may work on it some more but this is what it looks like at the moment. This one is 12 x 16 and basically, an experiment to see if I could get the kind of sunset I wanted and to show the muted light.  I have to let it sit awhile and look at it some more, and then maybe I'll change something.  No name for this one yet. It's a view roughly 180 degrees from the last picture on this blog,  different time of day.

Water for the Plains

Here's an irrigation picture - the ditch near Rabbit Mountain. It's so terrible dry but we all survive because of water like this. "Water for the Plains", 9 x 12.

landscape

Now that the show is up I am using the time to get in a few landscapes . Here's one of them. Chama Pass, 16 x 20.

Feeling the Heat

My show 'Feeling the Heat" is currently up at the Muse Gallery until the end of August.  The opening was on July 13th.

It's great to finally be able to see all the paintings in one place together instead of sitting around stacked against the walls in my studio.  A lot of people I know have stopped by the show, and there will be another opening on August 10th, Friday evening for the second month of the show. If you are local, come by and see it next week. So far none sold yet but one can always hope.

Here's a link to the newspaper review about the show and a picture of the promo postcard. Also some photos of the show itself.

Morning Light

Another painting from last weekend. Morning Light, 6" x 8"

Another new painting

Anothernew one - this one called "North Park Stream", 9 x 12.

New paintings

Here's the first of a couple smaller landscape painting I have been working on between larger paintings. "Storm over the Mountains", 12 x 16.

Living Water

This is the last of the series on Global Warming that I have been working on. This will be part of a show going up in July. "Living Water", 24 x 36.

Meltdown

This is the newest one of my large series. I kept changing my mind on this one so it took a while to finish.Meltdown, 24 x 36.

New painting

A local car dealership had one of those "push-pull-drag" events and I liked the big headline. I thought the lemon was fitting. Worked on this while waiting for another picture to dry. It's Back, 9 x 12.

Adaptation

Adaptation, 24 x 36, finished in January 2011.  Another painting for the upcoming summer show. The USDA recently updated the growing season zone charts for the whole country. The zones are moving northward.  We will all have to adapt - animals, plants, people. This picture is kind of talking about that process and other related climate events.

Patchy Snow

This was actually completed this fall but I never got around to posting it. Patchy Snow, 24 x 36. It's part  of the large series paintings I am working on that will be in show next summer. I recently finished another one that I will post tomorrow.

The Gift

Here's another small picture fit in between the larger ones I am working on. The Gift, 6 x 8.

ANother new tomato picture

This one, Garden Produce, is 9 x 12. There is something about these partially ripe tomatos and all their variability of color That I really like.

Tomatos

The garden is brimming with unripe tomatos, and since we've had several frosts already they will have to be picked or will freeze on the vine. It has been a big tomato year. Here are a few of them getting ripe indoors. Unripe Tomatoes, 8 x 10.

Resistance

This is the first of the three large paintings I mentioned in the last posting in August. They are part of a whole series I am doing. Resistance, 24" x 36", on canvas.

Squash are ripening

We have acorns, pattypans, tons of spaghetti squash and of course zucchinis. Here's  one of them. White Squash, 6 x 8.  In the meantime I have started another large painting and have three more planned out. I will post them as they get completed.

Unnamed

I just finished this painting last week. I still haven't decided what to call it yet.  24" x 36", on canvas. Unlike the last one I did ( see last blog entry)  this one worked itself out rather easily with not a lot of changed ideas along the way.

Hiding from The Heat

This painting was finished in June. Along the way I changed it about 4 times in major ways so it took a while to finish.  "Hiding from the Heat", 24" x 36",
oil on canvas.

 Although a lot of the first large pictures I did were on gessobord, it is getting a lot more difficult to find places that sell the size I like, 24" x 36", and shipping is a problem. The last set I got had bunged corners. Local stores don't carry the size.  And they are heavy, even if they don't need a frame. And you have to buy a whole lot of them at once. So this painting is on canvas. It has certain disadvantages - can't scrape off the paint as vigorously if I don't like what I  did,  for instance.  Can't do some of the other techniques I did either, like masking and cutting.  But I guess I will have to adapt.

New paintings and other news

It's been a long time since I posted anything.  I've had a lot of distractions such as visitors coming and going and dealing with the gardening and just never got around to the blog updating. It's hard to update when I've got a garden bed out there ready to get weeded or watered. The biggest distraction however has been my working on a massive overhaul of my art database and mailing list which has taken weeks to update. Whole weekends in May and June disappeared doing it and I am still not finished. I am using the program called Artist Butler. Although it is is fairly unsophisticated it's good enough for my uses. Going back through all the scraps of paper I have in file folders to glean info and finding and making the digital pictures all uniform has been a huge job. Trying to get it all into the right order is a real project.

Painting-wise I've been working on some large paintings lately. The small ones have gone by the wayside for a while. Here are a couple little ones I did work on that never got put on the blog before.

Below, "Fading Tulips", 10" x 8",  Blue Scarf, 5" x 7"

Another Shoe

Here's another shoe painting. Shoe 2, 5 x 7.

A Shoe

Here's a little shoe painting, Shoe 1, 6 x 8.

Sugar

Here's a little painting I have been laboring over.  It's another shadow picture, 10 x 8.  Sometimes it's time to just quit and start something else, so here it is for now.

Shadows

As January rolled around again this winter the early sun once again began to highlight the kitchen wall with interesting shadows where the pots hang. I couldn't resist doing another painting of the pots and their shadows.  Kitchen Shadows,  12 x 16. Last year's is below.

Another tea picture

Another tea picture, Tea Again. 6 x 8. I decided to paint it again, but I had to change the tea- it was starting to "grow".

Tea Time

Another small painting, this one 9 x 12, Tea Time.