Plumbers Both

Dan the bathroom man
plumbs the master bath, while I
plumb sea, salt, sky, swell.

work in progress
16 x 20", acrylic on canvas

Up from Below the Surface

When inner sub-marine currents started nudging, I pulled out a painted canvas previously featured on September 4, 2017 and October 17, 22, and 23 of 2018.

Covered it with black gesso, grabbed a ceramic tile for a starting color reference, mixed up colors, and let an expression of salty seawater and phytoplankton make itself known.

work in progress
16 x 20'; acrylic on canvas

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

An Embarrassment of Riches

Late summer sunshine,

radiant warm weather,

cloudless azure skies,

terrific tutorial students at my back door,

two engaging editing jobs in my lap,

wedding details' falling into place,

a beach picnic,

day's-end campfires night after night,

three good books in progress,

a painting knife in my hand,

and gratitude every which way.

free canvas #1
16x20"
work in progress

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