Sunset on the Rocks

6x8 oil on canvas $85

View From Libby's

8x13 oil on canvas $85

This is a view from the deck of my painter/friend Libby Caldwell. She is a terrific painter, visit her website by clicking on the link to the right -'Libby Caldwell'

Pomegranate II

6x8 oil on canvas SOLD

Pomegranate

6x8 oil on canvas/panel $85

I thought I might be leaving the Greenberg influence behind and just painting a colorful fruit but partway through the painting I realized this is still very much in the "Modernism" series, '#3' then.

Morning Choices

16x20 oil on canvas $300
Still reading about Greenberg's ideas and still experiencing 'deja vu', an experience of reflecting upon the time that I first encountered these ideas. For myself I have always been interested in the magical relationship between painted objects and the virtual space they occupy. An emphasis on the paint itself heightens the tension between that space and the surface of the work.

Cup and Saucer #1

6x8 oil on canvas $85

I've been reading a book by the art critic Donald Kuspit on the art critic Clement Greenberg. This kind of reading really takes me back to my college days. So this may be the start of a series. "Modernism Revisited."

Oranges Outdoors

6x8 oil on canvas SOLD

Boynton Canyon 2

9x12 oil on canvas $125

This is another study of a place where I have painted numerous times. This, like the one a few days ago is mostly palette knife painting. I enjoy the sense of mood from a limited palette.

In The Studio

5x7 oil on canvas (SOLD)

Studio Corner, Morning

8x8.5 $85 oil on canvas

Picnic at Cathedral Rock

6 x 8 oil on canvas $85

Boynton Canyon Sunset

9 x 12 oil on canvas $125

Though I often use a palette knife here and there in the process of painting and sometimes use it for blocking in an entire painting, this one is mainly palette knife with just a few touches of the brush.

Cathedral Reflection

16 x 20 acrylic on canvas $325

This painting was done during the Marcia Burtt workshop at the Sedona Arts Center. Working in direct sunlight with acrylics was challenging. Marcia reinforced a lot of my own insticts about direct painting. For me what was reinforced was that the painting starts essentially as abstract relationships of shapes of color next to one another. It becomes an image through that process of observation. Her compositional tips in the midst of painting were also very helpful. Marcia will be doing a workshop in Italy through the Arts Center in September, 2008.