PRACTICE MEDIUMS

Other water media includes casein and gouache. These are on Ampersand boards, small paintings.The top one is gouache then after a couple of days I sprayed it with water. I'm letting the casein painting on the bottom dry for a week or so then I will see if the paint lifts like the gouache does.

THREE IN PROGRESS

This one is 20" x 16" and just started. It is a study for the 30" x 40" one I have started also.

This one is almost done. I think I will add soap bubbles besides tuning it up. This is small about 12" tall x 9". I'm reading THE ALPHABET VERSUS THE GODDESS by Leonard Shlain and also Stephen Quiller's book WATERMEDIA. He says that casein goes back 9,000 years?!?

TITLE FOR OBE

This painting called BACKWARDS AND IN HIGH HEELS is about Mom in her youth. It is 60" (h) x 48". It will be in the exhibit at the Old Bakery and Emporium. I have come up with a title for my exhibit next November. THE LONG VIEW. I stole that from an article by Michael Barnes in the newspaper.

NOT FINISHED, AFTER ALL

Sometimes, I set parameters for a work in order to teach myself.

This 1995 self-portrait was to compare ultramarine blue and thalo blue.

This was an exploration of using Hansa Yellow (PY3) instead of and with cadmium yellow medium (PY 32). I recently noticed that I really didn't finish the painting, being too distracted by the "problem". Now I'm going after it to tune it up and push it. Is this all about  the poem, now?

A DAYDREAM

This painting might be finished. When I added the hand on the woman's shoulder, the painting felt less lonely. More and More I am thinking of my work as poetry.

MEMORIES

Selling miniatures of the ruins, vistas of Italy to the tourists in 1979, without a permit seemed like a good idea at the time. At Christmas time, Piazza Navona became too crowded for upstarts like me so I set up in Teatro Goldoni's foyer. Rome was an adventure and an education.

SKETCHES FROM THE NURSING HOME

I sketch Mom at the Nursing home sometimes when I visit. I also look out the window.