And That Is All

As a youngster at Camp Takodah, my nephew Stuart, along with his fellow campers, had to produce a 'meal ticket' to get into the dining hall for Sunday evening dinner. Said ticket took the form of a stamped addressed envelope holding a personally handwritten letter home to parents. One of those sweet letters, delightfully well drafted by Stuart, ended with the words, And that is all I have to say.

Little did he know he was penning what would become a frequently-invoked and highly-valued stock family sentence for ending any kind of missive when one reaches the point, no matter how early in the game, where there is nothing else coming to mind.

And that is all I have to say.

I Can't Change Where I Come From
3.5 x 5" postcard; acrylic, pencil, collage, and pastel on watercolor paper
abstract
2019

A New Playground

A Stillman & Birn Beta Series Premium Sketchbook, softcover edition, suitable for dry and wet media, watercolor, and ink, found its way to me some few months ago.

And now I have rediscovered it and begun to play.

Today: spontaneous, free-flowing, intuitive, engrossing play.

Despite the Ungodly Hour
6x9"; acrylic and pastel on mixed media paper
abstract landscape
2019