Red White and Blue

by | Jan 19, 2009 | 7 comments

I am staring at this painting on the bottom and I can’t figure what is bugging me about it for the longest time and then I realize it’s the colors. I hate when a painting starts going red white and blue. I don’t know what it is about those colors–I even like our flag...

Surface and Time

by | Jan 5, 2009 | 11 comments

This is a detail from a painting I just finished. Sometimes parts of paintings are better than other parts. This kind of density of surface is what I am after. Shapes and forms disappearing and emerging simultaneously. Similar to life…memories fading and new...

Surfaces

by | Jan 4, 2009 | 0 comments

This is a detail from a recent painting I just finished. I have tried to collage in some drawing elements on tissue paper. Sometimes parts of paintings work better than other parts. This one has a kind of density that I am after…  any layers and juxtapositions of...

Starfish

by | Dec 31, 2008 | 2 comments

Today we went to the newly opened Academy of Sciences. So many people, so many exhibits…this 11 legged starfish was encased in resin along with a whole slew of other creatures along a back wall. They actually were plaques that acknowledged those who gave large...