Fireflies

Fireflies; 12 x 11"; charcoal and mica powder on paper

Rain Shower

Rain Shower; 12 x 11"; charcoal and mica powder on paper

I Was a Milk Cloud Floating

I Was a Milk Cloud Floating; 12 x 11; charcoal and mica powder on paper

I Had a Quick Dream

I Had a Quick Dream; 12 x 11"; oil and silver leaf on paper

  Easy does it in the studio right now.  Things are so rapidly moving and shifting that I am simply trying to show up each day and do what need to be done.  This is another in a small series of oil on paper which I am creating with my set of sumptuous Old Holland oil colors.

Small Oil Paintings

Life is But a Dream; 12 x 11; oil on paper

  The pastel landscapes have rolled over into a series of small oil paintings.  Here I am bringing together some of the imagery I am working with in the recent large format acrylic paintings, but due to the smaller format I am able to be much more agile.  These paintings go quickly, and the ideas for the succeeding images are pushing in before the current ones are complete.  I am thrilled by the freedom with mark and detail that I have in the media and with the rich, rich, colors that I am finding in the Old Holland paints!

Heaven and Earth

The Tower; 12 x 9.5"; pastel on paper

  This week I began a series of small pastel drawings in conjunction with the larger landscape paintings.  Here's the latest one.

The Sheltering Sky

  I recently completed a small series of pastel drawings in tandem with the larger charcoal drawings of trees.  The pastels were a chance to rest while in the midst of the much more demanding large-scale work.  The composition was inspired by an image by Adolph Gottlieb, Orb.  I worked with this idea of balancing two compositional elements.  The resulting landscapes began to remind me of my former home in the Sonoran Desert as well as the novel by Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky.

The Desert; 8 x 6"; pastel on paper

Swelter; 8 x 6"; pastel on paper