Well I'm thinking of selling some of my  paintings though I haven't yet figured out how much to sell them for nor which size I wish to sell...it seems to boring to figure out I guess...

Unfortunately, most of you have already driven four or five hours to get here and then spent the entire time here taking photographs...and of course you already have paintings already...!

  This is one of the paintings from 2007 --a ways a go I suppose...but I like this one and in fact didn't give a thought about when it was painted, wow! fourteen years ago!  ...

Stone Hinge

The moon is up, and yet it is not night,

The sun as yet disputes the day with her.

  --Lord Byron

This came out of the vault.  There are thousands, I guess, of paintings in the vault.  I don't know what decade let alone what year it's from.

6x19 inks,watercolor...This is the toughest paper I ever found, dry and thick, weird...never found anything like it...

 

Avoidmentee

 

Well here I am again...Ive been working on things as usual, pretty much every workday, and I'd like to add a bit of explanation, I mean what happened? well, I became a sort of Accidental Avoidmentee, it just seemed like I couldn’t figure out how to work things, and then my youngest has been using it for recording music, thank god, and now be the first time Ive tried doin anything, like producing a thing ...and well here be it.

11x15 Rives-one of my favorite papers: watercolor + ink+ collage 2015

Spelling

well I have always been dedicated to the accidental, the happenstance, the least egregious way to make the work, and I am usually rewarded when I look at them when I wake in the morning or the afternoon when I get up.  Now when I write about them, I often get mixed up in spelling things, I don't know why or how but the words all turn into some complex chalkboard, with strange equations done in hieroglyphs 

Now I can often look things up on the computer and fix the spelling yet I often don't wanna do that.  I want the painting to all be soaked in accident and the most amature of tools and so I don't wanna correct spelling and change the words I use. I don't want to order them, to present  a shiny thing  of gallery standing.  At least that is how I feel a bunch of the time.

I'm Back!

So where have I been?  Well, about three years ago my laptop crashed and I couldn't process any photos of my paintings.  I got sick of trying to figure out my laptop so I went back to just painting.  Which was actually kind of heaven.  There was an ancient Chinese scholar who said the struggle between for and against is the mind's worst disease.

Finally I got a new computer which has taken me almost a year to figure out.  But I really missed all of you.  I loved the comments that you left and the discussions that would happen.  That all made me really happy.  So here are a couple new watercolors that I hope you'll enjoy.

 

Even if you don't enjoy them, I'd still love to hear from you.