02/27/2008 15:34:10

thanks for the comments about my landscapes, I am equally impressed with your work.

02/11/2008 07:11:09

Some of your bright work, like Yellow on the Top, remind me of Wolf Kahn, except he usually uses secondary colors.  Do you know of him?  I think our paintings would work in a gallery, in that they share color and a level of abstraction/simplification.  I like how animals sneak into your work.  Greg

02/03/2008 21:30:13

Keep playing with the scrathing technique. Do it while the paint is still wet and thickly applied. That's how I got the results I did. 

The portrait is new. The trees/shadows one I did a while ago but just posted it not too long ago. The portrait is quite an accomplishment for me. I didn't think I could do those but it came out so well I may look to do more (I did one other one eons ago and I didn't like it).

I've gotten away from abstracts with the portrait and my current project, a painting of Fenway Park. I'm looking forward to getting back to spontaneous painting after I get that one done. We'll see how things go...

02/02/2008 15:00:47

I couldn't tell at all where you scratched off the paint in Barn I...

02/01/2008 18:36:56

By the way, my permanent residency is Dayton OH, but I am here because of my husbands military duty. 

01/30/2008 17:54:45

Hello again!! Im glad you liked my plant series! I feel so good and full and alive doing it that Im not working on it it is woeking on me ! ja ja See you soon....

01/12/2008 22:30:15

I'm bogged down in detail work on the painting I'm currently working on. I'm looking forward to completing it so I can concentrate on loose work afterwards. Looking forward to seeing how your latest landscape comes out (using the scratch off with the opposite end of the paint brush). 

01/12/2008 11:11:17

Thank you for your comment on my collage.  In recent years, I have grown to really love Beethoven and often paint with his music in the back ground, so the collage is all about what I feel he must have felt.  I look forward to seeing more of your work.

01/11/2008 22:17:44

Thanks - I've gotten a few compliments on "Modern". When I first did it I wasn't that thrilled with it, but now I really like it. It was one of those paintings where I just let the brush go and was loose throughout the painting and didn't think much about what I was doing. I wish they could all be like that. Those are types of paintings I like the most...like yours - you can really tell that your brush was doing most of the work. Are those plein air that you do? I still have yet to do any plein air painting. 

01/11/2008 18:57:40

Funny you like the apples - that one was art by accident. I was trying to do a cityscape mostly in metallics and it wasn't working at all, so in frustration I started blending all the paint together on the canvas and somehow those apples appeared. The white is the canvas - I used the opposite end of the paintbrush to lift out the paint which was still wet. My paintings are acrylics.