After Harvest

Oil on board, 9 3/4" x 12 3/4"
$600, plus $10 shipping in U.S.

A larger painting today. I tried to catch the feeling of a windy early fall day. Even the buildings seemed to hunker down in anticipation of the coming storm.

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Nathalie, Gianni and Scout

Oil on canvas, 24" x 34"
NFS

I'll be direct posting to the blog until my server problems are solved.

This is a commissioned portrait for a family in the Cape Cod area. I shipped the completed painting off, and a week or so later received this wonderful photo of the twins in front of it. Click images to enlarge.

Server woes yet again /%@&#

Something has happened to my image server (so what else is new?) My son is in the process of setting all my sites up on a new one. Meanwhile we're trying to figure out what the trouble is this time. Sorry to all--it's frustrating not to be able to go more than two or three months before another problem crops up. Thanks for your patience.

Fall Color

Acrylic on board, 7" x 5"
$125 plus $6 shipping in U.S.
SOLD
In aerial views, Catherine Creek looks like a dropped string, winding through the valley in meandering loops.

Willow Glow Acrylic on board, 5" x 7" $125.00 + $6.00 shipping in US. Sitting still in the woods, one gains a heightened awareness of subtle motion. Limbs stir gently in the breeze. Dry leaves flutter soundlessly to the ground. Gleaming waters course unhurried detours around dark rocks. Sunlight sets a delicate willow limb aglow for a few heartbeats, then moves on.

Autumn Waters Acrylic on board. 5" x 7" $125.00 + $6.00 shipping in US. SOLD We are having the most beautiful Indian summer; crisp, sunny mornings melting into shirtsleeve afternoons. Yesterday I drove up Catherine Creek to see the fall color. There is such serenity in a slow moving stream reflecting an autumn sky--deep blues mingling with shimmering russets, greens and golds; sunbathed leaves of cottonwood and willow flickering in the breeze. A perfect stress reliever--something we all can use about now, right?

Loading Chute Acrylic on board, 7" x 5" $125.00 + $6.00 shipping in US. SOLD Our little barnlot in late afternoon light.

Young Poplar Acrylic on board, 7" x 5" $125.00 + $6.00 shipping in US. SOLD I seem to be in a red phase, don't I?

I'll be traveling this weekend, so will be back with a painting post on Monday. Meanwhile, a few of my favorite quotes:


Artists and writers - like ritual magicians - know that the ego, the conscious self, does not really create anything. Instead, all our training and preparation serves to allow us to get out of the way. Something moves through us. Something wants to be created. This is what it means to experience magic, to open yourself to the power of life.

~ Rachel Pollack


If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

~ Edward Hopper


A painter paints pictures on canvas, but musicians paint their pictures on silence.

~ Leopold Stokowski

Fresh Cut Acrylic on board, 6" x 6" $125.00 + $6.00 shipping in US. SOLD Our friends Lorie and Al have a beautiful home full of art and artful touches, like this unpretentious but elegant bouquet.

Red Wall, Blue Sky Acrylic on board, 5" x 7" $125.00 + $6.00 shipping in US. SOLD Rural architecture around here is usually pretty straightforward and no-nonsense, you don't see a lot of ornamentation. This complex of buildings no doubt grew organically according to need, form following function. But the beauty in these austerely simple shapes is undeniable. I couldn't resist the wonderful geometry of afternoon shadows, and the intensity of those red walls against the blue sky.

October Moon Acrylic on board, 6" x 6" $125.00 + $6.00 shipping in US. SOLD A full moon rises as the eastern mountains catch the last rosy glow of sunlight.

Creekside Evening Acrylic on board, 5" x 7" $125.00 + $6.00 shipping in US. Catherine Creek slowly meanders through the valley just after sundown. This is one of my favorite spots--such a peaceful place.

Toolshed Oil on board, 5" x 7" $125.00 + $6.00 shipping in US. SOLD A grand and blustery fall day, curiously not unlike early spring. Looming banks of threatening clouds rolled overhead, now and then pierced with wavering flashes of brilliant sunlight.

Plum Nuts Oil on board, 5" x 7" $125.00 + $6.00 shipping in US. SOLD What can I say?

Side Yard Oil on board, 6" x 6" $125.00 + $6.00 shipping in US. This is the little house I grew up in. A few years ago my mother had to leave it to go into foster care (she's 98 and doing pretty well, bless her!) Shortly after she moved, I went through the house inside and out taking photos. I've had in the back of my mind doing a group of related paintings, but always seem to find some excuse not to start. Sometimes a subject can almost be TOO personal, if you know what I mean. Anyway, I'm hopeful that starting small with some studies like this one might help me kickstart the project.

Field's Edge Oil on board, 6" x 6" $125.00 + $6.00 shipping in US. Leaving the Ancestor series for awhile. Brenda and I bought a beautiful piece of property last summer near the small town of Cove, Oregon, and hope to be able to build a home on it next year. We go over there all the time to hang out and dream. This is the view from the future front porch.

Ancestor 10 Charcoal and acrylic on paper, 6 3/4" x 5 3/4" $125.00 + $6.00 shipping in US.

Disguise Oil on board, 12" x 12" NFS Each October our regional arts council holds a fundraising masquerade ball. I was one of six artists asked to create a mask to auction off for the cause. I agreed, then thought "What was I thinking? I'm a 2-D guy--in college I couldn't even throw a piece of pottery that didn't end up being a twelve pound ashtray!" My solution was to cop out a little, stay in my comfort zone and do a slightly modified self-portrait, holding my mask. You can see the great masks created by the other artists at www.artseast.org.

Ancestor 9 Acrylic on paper, 6" x 6 5/8" $125.00 + $6.00 shipping in US. Recent insightful comments left on my message board have made me think a little harder about the motivations behind this series. Yes there is a certain strangeness about these figures, and admittedly it is a quality I'm seeking. At the core of it for me is the poignance of life itself. The old photos are reminders that we are all apparitions--a coalescing of atoms that, after a few heartbeats, will exist in this world only in memory, or in a pattern of chemicals on a scrap of photopaper.

Ancestor 8 Acrylic on paper, 7" x 5" $125.00 + $6.00 shipping in US.