Pomegranates 12" x 12"

I am still working on the baby/skunk cabbage thingy, but here is a smaller still life that I began yesterday. I am recovering from the push to finish the portfolio and the race to finish my last very large painting. This seems a little easier to tackle right now. I am considering it as part of a larger piece - three or perhaps nine same sized canvases with more pomegranates. We will see. Happy New Year to everyone!

Skunk cabbage and baby heads

I know...

I don't know...
I couldn't help it.

We spent Christmas in Silver City and I saw these amazing rattles at a local art gallery. (Click on Helen Wilson.)

This painting definitely has a direction of its own.

Sorry, the photo is most certainly not in sharp focus; but here is some of the work I have completed in the last two sessions.

Finished photo of Memphis posted under the Portfolio link.

AND In the Garden was accepted for a show next summer at the Central Gallery in Phoenix Public Library. YEA!

Mockingbirds 36" x 54"

I have started painting again - amongst the mess of all the grad school applications. This piece is on the same venetian red background that I used with the painting of Memphis. I like the effect upon the color that working on a darker ground has. This is a closeup of the composition. I'll show you the rest after I put in more time.

Slides for the Portfolio

Not a new image today, but enough of an artistic happening to post it on my blog. My slides didn't turn out. I spent two days this weekend orchestrating amazing feats of camera artistry and lighting technique (or rather my photographer friend, Scott, did the orchestration) only to find through a cruel twist of technological fate that the whole thing was for naught. So tomorrow the only thing to do is to do it all over again.