"Coconut & Lime On Gold" - SOLD

 

 

6" x 6" oil on gessoed panel

 

This one's a bit of an experiment, pushing fast & loose again, over a black background a la the amazing Karen Jurick. I stuck almost entirely with earth tones - Raw and Burnt Umbers, Burnt Sienna, and Yellow Ochre, cut with black or white, and a bit of Cad Yellow and Cad Scarlet here and there. The setting is a shiny cloth thrown over a pillow.

 

I will be out of town for a weekend at an East Texas lake campground, and will hopefully have some good landscape work to post on Monday. It'll be great to get out of the beige box for a day or two and have some outdoor subjects to sketch and paint.

 

Travelling around Texas by car can be artistically frustrating. What North Texas lacks in expressive topography, it makes up for with lighting and atmospheric subtletly. Add in the random trees and cow herds, and on a drive out of the city I usually end up seeing so much I want to put on paper, that I could spend an entire drive with my head down in the sketchbook, finishing one quick sketch, looking up, seeing something new, and going right back into it, until I'm mentally and physically tired. Is there a medical term for this? "Sketchbook Whiplash", maybe?

"Take Us To Your Leader" - SOLD

 

 

SOLD

 

5" x 7" oil on gessoed panel

 

This one resulted from what is usually called a "happy accident", though it was anything but happy at the time. I was a full four hours into a 6"x6" when I realized I was polishing a pile of crap, so I scrubbed it out, tossed the dirty board aside, and started anew. My ideas for this new painting weren't any better. It was getting late in the day, and I was frustrated and PO'd. Out of desperation (and with a dash of cynicism), I threw down a backround cloth and tossed some cherries onto it at random. Fortunately for my sanity, they landed in a workable arrangement that suggested a story of two cherries with alien "antennae", versus one without.