I know, I know, I know. I haven’t put anything new on my website in months. For the past year I have been exploring other media, looking for a way to develop my abstract work, building skill in oil painting.
This summer I have been getting outdoors, to paint or just walk around, as often as I can. Painting outdoors is much more challenging than painting from a reference photo. This photo is from a day in early summer when I painted at Schlitz Audubon Nature Center. I came home hot, tired, and covered with mosquito bites. My plein air work is improving but it is not yet where I want it to be.
When the weather turned cooler, I turned my attention to studio painting. But right now I am in the midst of cataract surgery which has slowed me down. My brain is trying to figure out what to do with this new way of seeing the world, with sometimes comical results. Yesterday everything was colored in big splotches of shifting clear/blue light and dirty yellow light, with bits of bright pink strewn around for a little contrast. No point trying to work on an oil painting until this settles down.
Meanwhile I am preparing something new for you. Check back in a couple of weeks, I should have it all spiffed up and ready to show you before the end of the month.