La bonne vie

Sitting is a cushy, leather chair, feet propped up, laptop open, listening to some amazing string arrangement on the local NPR station, and a stomach full of some of the most incredible deep pizza, potato skins and handmade root beer. Life is good. While I'm in an updating mood, here are some other pieces I did this summer, I hope you wasn't too scared with the last two, thinking I went off the deep end. "Too long in Cali-land, land of fru-frus and nutcases", they'd say. "No", I'd reply, "just trying new things. Learning all the while. I refuse to become a generic landscape painter, at least without a long, drawn-out fight." So here are some other works. Enjoy or don't enjoy.

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Midflight Sandwich (4"x5), graphite

Started and completed while on airplane from APU to home, with one guy trying to glance over inconspicuously

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Man I (28"x19"), charcoal with white highlights

Completed at CIVA (see links on right) conference during figure drawing session

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Woman I (28"x19"), charcoal with white highlights

CIVA

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Woman II (28"x19"), charcoal

CIVA

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Hand I (28"x19"), charcoal

Don't know why but my hand on the easel with a single light source struck me

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Hand II (10"x6"), oil on masonite

I think I was enfatuated

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Untitled I (which is a sort of title I guess) (12"x12"), oil on board

Inspired by Ed Knippers original; I love the handling of this figure

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Untitled II (5"x2.5"), oil on wood

Working with a figure form as composition, see Wayne Fort work.

Wood is from the trash bin at American Wood Products facuilty in St. Mary's, KS.

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View from Porch (boring title!) (5"x4), pastel and charcoal

Love the hatching in tree trunk and handling of leaves, see Marc Chagall's work

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Dad (12"x6"), charcoal on wood

Out on the patio one fine day

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Untitled (vaiable size), digital print

Fort Macon in NC

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Too Good to Pass Up (variable size), digital print

Ft. Macon in NC