WORD PAINTINGS #124 – RAIN, RAIN, RAIN, RAIN – BLESSED RAIN!!!
WORD PAINTINGS #124 (How I Came to New Mexico and Learned About Life and Art) -RAIN, RAIN, RAIN, RAIN – BLESSED RAIN!!! 3 July 2022 (Llano Quemado, New Mexico) – Sunday morning silence – not even the birds are singing! Truth is we are all exhausted from the heavy drama of this time since the […]
WORD PAINTINGS # 123 – UP IN SMOKE!
WORD PAINTINGS #123 (How I Came to New Mexico and Learned about Art and Life) – UP IN SMOKE! 11 June 2022 (Llano Quemado, New Mexico) – The Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon fire has consumed over 320,000 acres and is 67% contained. Yesterday a new fire broke out north of El Rito burning 500 […]
WORD PAINTINGS #122 – BACK TO THE BEGINNING AGAIN!
WORD PAINTINGS #122 (How I Came to New Mexico and Learned About Art and Life) A MAN IS RICH AS HIS WOODPILE (From the High Road, Northern New Mexico) ***************************** WORD PAINTINGS #122 (How I Came to New Mexico and Learned About Art and Life) 5 June 2022 (Llano Quemado, New Mexico) […]
WORD PAINTINGS #120 – A CRUEL SEASON
WORD PAINTINGS #120 (How I Came to New Mexico and Learned About Life and Art) – A CRUEL SEASON 4 May 2022 (Llano Quemado, New Mexico) – View from my kitchen window: What began as a few plumes of white over towards Las Vegas on or about the 20th of April became 75,000 acres forest […]
WORD PAINTINGS #119 – GOING TO SANCTUARY
30 April 2022 (Llano Quemado, New Mexico) – High winds, forest fires – smoky haze settling on Taos Valley. Heard yesterday that he winds will pick up again today. I can hear some whistles at the windows. Rain clouds formed over the area across from my kitchen window. Plumes of smoke from the Las […]
WORD PAINTINGS #118 – EARTH, WIND AND FIRE!!
25 April 2022 (Llano Quemado, New Mexico) – All I can say is “WOW”!!! Yesterday definitely felt like the end of the world. Sixty mile an hour winds up here on the Llano (94 mile an hour at the Ski Valley). Blowing from south toward Taos Mountain the sand and dust was thick […]
WORD PAINTINGS #117 – A CANDLE FOR GRAMPA JIM
GOOD FRIDAY – 15 April 2022. Just lit a candle for my Grampa Jim. The story goes that Valentin Danielewski came over on the boat from either Prussia or Poland when he was eight years old. As a young adult he Americanized his name to Jim Daniels. In time he married my grandmother Ella, adopted […]
WORD PAINTINGS #116 – CENTINELAS DE ORO
STUDIO #1322 – CENTINELAS DE ORO (Rio Grande at Pilar, New Mexico) NEW! 30″X40″ Original Oil 13 April 2022 (Llano Quemado, New Mexico) – Opened my window last night to hear the coyotes way down by the river. The winds started up early this morning and they are Fierce! Some gusts make the house shake. […]
WORD PAINTINGS #115 – INTO THE GREAT UNKNOWN
“The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of peace have to be invented, and invented again. Children, everybody, here’s what to do during war: In a time of destruction, create something. A poem. A parade. A community. A […]
WORD PAINTINGS #114 – WINTER WORK!
17 February 2022 – SNOW DAY!!! A few warm and balmy days this week followed by a big, belching blizzard this morning! I love it!! Breakfast, coffee and now to settle in for a quiet day of painting.
