“Journey”, oil crayon, 10.5” x 14”, 2024
I am back….
5/4/2023
“West of Denver", oil on canvas, 24" x 28", 2015. Unofficially this was completed in 2015, officially completed in 2022. I find I am becoming more definitive in my style and lately sometimes I will tweak an image after I have called it finished.
WAT 4/15/2022
I have come to think that the first stroke of paint I put on the canvas says the most. If I have truly connected with myself the painting is all downhill from there.
WAT 2/6/22
Been taking a break from art to play catch-up with the rest of my life. What artist likes to do that?😁
WAT 2/3/22
My foray into abstract helped to open me up on canvas. A blip in work consistency but wanted to do it just the same.
WAT 9/4/21
For all artists of different sexes or creeds. I love this. Taken from Bohemian Paris by Dan Franck:
Doubt is the eternal language of the artist faced with himself. The new work is never a certainty. It rests on nothing, not even on the preceding one. Success, curiosity are ephemeral. Each time, one must start again from scratch - from the abyss of nothingness. The artist lives on the breath of inspiration. If this forsakes him, all the rest goes with it. Such is the fate of the man who wrestles with the birth of a work of art.
WAT 8/6/21
Buzz, R.I.P
WAT 6/9/21
Today I included an abstract under Recent Paintings. My abstract time has come.
WAT 5/7/21
In these first abstracts I haven't done much thinking about them. In the words of Julia Cameron, it's “stream of consciousness.”
WAT 4/30/21
After some thought I have decided to jump into abstract for a while. I have also been inspired by the artistic lives of Pollock and de Kooning and how they worked from their inner souls.
WAT 4/24/21