REFLECTION IN COMPUTER SCREEN
I turned off the computer and painted my reflection. When the nest is empty a woman has time to reflect on herself. Thinking about issues of beauty, fading beauty, and the beauty in the little details of a silver hair or a wrinkle.

Oil on maple

6"X 6"

$150. until July 19

FIGURE 33
The fun thing about developing a level of comfort with our models, is that sometimes they will try out some fantasy/costumes. This familiarity makes for interesting paintings.

14" X 18"

Oil on canvas board

$200. until July 15

'TOMATOES IN STRIPED BOWL'
Something caught my painter's eye, and so I seized the moment. My thoughts went to a recent e-letter from Robert Genn's list called the painter keys, about 'kissing'. Should objects touch? How much overlap is enough in a composition? I also thought about something I heard Wayne Thiebaud say in an interview on 'Spark' (pbs.org), he spoke about articulating the variations of light in a painting as glint, gleam and glow.

Oil on canvas

5" X 7"

$100.00 until July 6

"ALL CRACKED UP"
OK, I haven't lost it just yet. This is my response to the Daily Painters Website challenge! The first week of the month there is a group theme.
I haven't been posting lately, but I have been painting..

6"X 8"

Oil on maple hard wood panel

$100. until July 3

CLOUDS
The cloud formations have been magnificent lately- so I started this from a window view. I was thinking about composition ideas I've been reading about, like dominance and subordination or notan, light/dark shape relationships. Since this was small I decided to paint more thickly than I usually do, pushing the paint around.



Oil on hardboard

5" X 7"

$100.

PACKING PAPER ON SILL
This crumpled packing paper caught my eye as it looked like sculpture. I was really challenged to paint it in a cool blue room, with the warm western late afternoon light.

Oil on canvas
14" X 18"

$300.

FIGURE 32
This was done in two sittings from a live model. I tried to finish it in one sitting, but I decided to leave behind my goal and do what the painting needed. It was fun to paint her warm reflective skin and red hair. I have shifted my approach to a more 'a la prima' painterly style.

Oil on canvas board

12" X 16"

$200 until March 6