SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE

16x26x1" acrylic on cradled wood panel SOLD

CATCH THAT FEELIN'

16x20x1" acrylic on cradled wood panel SOLD

These guys were skim-boarding on one of the best days we had all summer. The light was fantastic! and part of being out there is just the feeling of being at the edge of the surf in the sun with the roar of the waves and the sparkle and the sand and the gulls. That's what I was trying to catch.

FIRST TIME

44x36 inch oil on canvas

I finally finished this today. It's been near completion for almost 3 months! I just couldn't make it happen. today it happened. I plan to submit it to the fall show at the Portland Art Museum rental sales gallery in a couple of days unless someone decides they can't live without it in which case....lets talk.

12x12"acrylic on cradled wood panel

Here's the 2nd one for the small works show I mentioned below.

NEW STUFF

12x12" acrylic on cradled wood panel SOLD

I was invited to participate in the Small Works Show at the HOWARD/MANDVILLE GALLERY in Kirkland Washington a few months ago. The deadline is the 10th of this month to submit images for the catalog. I've been procrastinating long enough and I finally got busy on my entry. Here's the first of 2. Thsi is from a photo I took this summer. You may recognize the figures as the same subjects I painted earlier. Their colorful swimsuits and buckets were hard to pass up so I took a lot of pics of them that day.

ROTHKO REVISITED

12 x 12" acrylic on wood panel SOLD

Wow! It's been so long since I posted I almost forgot my password! I've not done much painting in the last 2 months. Trying to enjoy a 'staycation' with my wife and 2 of my kids home from college. I admit I was getting pretty fidgety not going to the studio and working. But at the same time I got that old "I'll never paint again" feeling. Scary! So, I have an invitational exhibit in a few days at the Cannon Beach Arts Association  gallery and I needed to get a  piece done for it. This is it. A little dark maybe and I'm afraid it makes clear my mixed feelings about where I'm going next. But hey....it's art and it is an expression of my soul.