quiet @ da lake sold at CAAC show "22

 This painting is impossible to photograph.  I had painted background and spritzed it and let it run.. I liked the look of it but it needed "subject matter", don't ya' know..   original is so much more colorful.   it was fun/stressy to paint.  

Mineral Moo Cow 5-22 Sold at Gallery4

Friend, Dave, gave me a sheet of "mineral" paper along with his christmas card. It is actually made from rocks or stones.  It feels like suede, kinda, and it is transparent. I could trace this image from my sketch book.. ( I have painted this moo cow several times}.  It felt like Yupo paper when painting on it. 

 

Gnome, alone

 Or i could call this one "high on mushroom"  ..  The photo is paler than the painting.  Again, this was so fun to paint.  My son, Matt, suggested i paint a gnome riding a bison..   Don't think so........ 

Lunch Crowd

1-10-24  I really think this painting needed some help.  I added my own color mixture to ceiling and floor.  Then realized i had never painted legs on the tables.  were they floating??    T'is better..

i used the feeling of a restaurant in Colorado.  I always liked this photo with those weird red chairs.  I used it as reference altho there is not much likeness, maybe the chairs and the lights ..  i put one customer there 'cause the restaurant business is hurting 'cause this damned pandemic.   

I faintly painted "Juano's" in the window, cause that was our favorite restaurant of all time...........