"Here's Looking At You"



      First I wanted to say thanks for the comments I've been getting. They really keep me going.
     I have been having fun playing around with different materials and techniques lately. This painting had a lot of reduction techniques...I took about as much paint off as I put on.

BARN

     This is an old barn from around where I grew up in Kansas. These old barns like this are a dying breed and there are many of them still standing. Some people fix them up and re-paint them, but to me it ruins a lot of their character.

THREEBERRIES



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      I was just thinking while I was painting these strawberries..OH, OH. Well it just amazes me when I think of things in art that are so close to life. I was thinking of how as a beginning and growing artist trying to find a "style" or figuring out what and how I wanted to paint by looking at other artists. Artists in past history, but also more recent artists. I was always very judgemental and everything was black and white, I either hated it or loved it. As I got older and painted more, it seems like I forgot these questions and just painted what I wanted to paint, how I wanted to paint them. My appreciation of painting also widened. Even though I would never paint that subject matter in that manner, I still could enjoy it. It dawned on me how life is somewhat similar. A lot of time is spent judging other peoples lives, instead of appreciating the variety in life. Seeing other ways of living as individuals is so refreshing when I am not comparing to my own way of thinking or doing something. The other thing is that by being more open to these other ways, I can learn from other artists and other people all my life.
     Sorry, I'm usually not a philosopher. I think I'm saying this more for myself.

ALIEN LURES

     I have been trying to move recently and came across my old fishing tackle box. I opened it up and found all these Bass fishing lures. They make some of them to look like real bait minnows and then some to them look like abstract minnows...Ha!
     The little one at the bottom looks like he's saying something like "WOW, what planet are you guys from?"

GRAND CANYON 1

     I've been working recently with this square format, so I thought I'd try a landscape on it. It's different, that's for sure, but I am enjoying the variety.

DUDE ROOSTER



      This chicken really looked like the Cock of the Walk, or at least one of them.

GHOST CHICKENS

     Besides all the great old antique trucks and the Ghost Town Buildings, there were chickens running around. I picked up some beautiful feathers for my hat. I guess these chickens got along with the owners little chihuahua pup named "Killer".