Summer Painting Season HAS Begun

Summer is the time of new creations!

The paintings that were begun and put on hold during late winter, early spring are now getting their due attention. Two paintings that I started months ago and I have been staring at each time I walked through the studio to get very important things other than my brush. Important things like the laundry, or my son's shoes have ways of overshadowing creative outlets. But good news is..... Summer's here, school is out, kids are busy and playing and Mommy gets to paint! Happy Days are here again!

The above painting is an oil on board with watercolor under painting. This is the last in the monochromatic series. All proceeding paintings were keeping with just variation of a line and shape. This one incorporates the figure and then changes its flow. It seems sometimes that when the figure is introduced to a composition a certain level of tension is automatically created. AS with most my paintings, it has no title yet. It has not revealed itself to me yet. Yet.

More work to be done.

These hands hold the spherical egg which has two hands emerging from it. Entwined in rings of light, are spheres of energy. This oil painting on wood is still in progress. More work on the hands and dimensionality of the rings.

NEW CREATION!!! While the same subject/style as many of my previous works, this paintings incorporates a new media. All color is applied on clear velum. All black figurative lines are developed on watercolor paper with charcoal.

At this point I am envisioning a forest with figures emerging from many natural forms all in a cool color scheme.

LAYERS! OMG! It's photoshop with oil and more time.

This New Kid on the Block is unlike anything I have created before. Cartoon like with simple color and black lines.

This began as a drawing on board then is now underway as an oil on board. This time I inked lines firs and concreted the design. In my mind. This is a commentary on our dependence the screen. Dependant to the point of self crippling degeneration. Three different people have melted to only heads, deformed now as they may be. These heads, so lazy as to have melted away their legs, are being pushed in a shoe fitted with a wheel. Because everyone else has fallen to the lazy, the shoe is control ed by remote using the antennas on top.

The background consists of various roads, bridges and screens projecting meaningless mind clutter and a imaginary creature or two.

This one just makes me giggle! Maybe Mind Mush would be a good title?

So I have much work to do. What a great way to spend summer "vacation".