TAOS WINTER SUNRISE 1/23/10 – (Photo)
1/23/10 – Up really early this morning and photographed the beginning of the sunrise through my kitchen window. It was just a special moment – everything felt as though it was at the beginning again – that from this sunrise there will be a renewal – another spring. “If winter comes, can spring be far […]
48″x36″ Orig. Oil Painting – “TAOS AFTERNOON SHADOWS” – Work in Progress
16 January 2010 – I didn’t want to miss this beautiful light I saw from my kitchen window last winter. Grabbed my trusty digital camera and shot the photo right through the window. The 48″x36″ canvas is gesso toned with Payne’s Grey. The “cartoon” of the painting is Prussian Blue. I ran the photo through […]
“CALYPSO” – Work in Progress – Underpainting
A perfect day today — kind of cloudy, waiting for snow. Here is the underpainting – am working mostly with pure colors – ochres, cadmium reds, cobalt blue, chrome oxide green opaque, cadmium yellow. Background is a combination of Payne’s Grey, a little ochre and MG Fast Drying Underpainting white. Will let this canvas dry […]
“CALYPSO” – Work in Progress
14 January 2010 — Here is the “cartoon” for my new 24″x24″ oil painting “Calypso”. I have done the drawing in Prussian Blue — working loosely. I love this color for sketching in paintings because I believe the strength of the blue comes through the eventual layers of colors. This is an important […]
“VETERAN’S DAY/SANTA FE PLAZA” – SOLD
“VETERAN’S DAY/SANTA FE PLAZA”- SOLD In one of my recent “clear outs” I found the slide for this painting which I took sometime in 1969 or thereabouts. I worked on this painting today and all the while debated whether I would disclose the surprise it held for me as I worked on it. Normally […]
AFTER — Getting Organized
6 January 2010 – Today is the Feast of the Three Kings at Taos Pueblo — dances, celebration. Cleaned up the studio finally — all prepared for my New Beginning……
#820 – THE NEST (NEW BEGINNINGS) – NEW ORIGINAL OIL
4 January 2010 – “THE NEST” (NEW BEGINNINGS) – NEW 10″X10″ Original Oil on Linen, Framed in Gold with Linen Liner. Call (575) 758-7454 for price and availability. “Every new beginning comes from some other beginnings end” Seneca, Roman Philospher, mid-1st Century AD. Found two quotes from Seneca recently. Another is “Begin at once to […]
810 – THE NEST (NEW BEGINNINGS) – WORK IN PROGRESS
#810 – “THE NEST” (New Beginnings) – 10″x10″ New Oil Painting – A solid start today — here are three phases of this new oil painting. The photo of the nest – the oil sketch – outlined mostly in Prussian Blue – and the glazes. Will let this set up overnight and am hoping to […]
WELCOMING THE NEW YEAR!
WINTER GIFTS……..
There is nothing I can give you which you have not;But there is much, very much that while I cannot give it, you can take. No heaven can come to us unless our heartsfind rest in today. TAKE HEAVEN.No peace lies in the future which is not hiddenin this present moment. TAKE PEACE. The gloom of the world […]
