Iconic cloud, moon, bush and tree. I’m a kid at heart.

When I get an idea I like, I like to keep playing with it.

Thought I’d try acrylics. Still thinking about oil, but this is satisfying my craving for bright. This feels kind of fantasy midwest to me.

This is a spot we found in Vermont where my son and his friends like to jump off a big rock into the water. I love swimming holes in general – there’s something magical about them, and if there’s something to jump off of, we’re all happy. This place doesn’t really have a waterfall – I painted this late at night after we got home from memory and imagination. This painting is how it felt to me there – and for the next few days I kept painting this place – I may still be on this roll – I don’t think I feel finished yet.

Because of the medium I’m using all my daily paintings so far have a very flat (no gloss) look to them. I’ve been enjoying that but I’m now getting a craving for brighter colors and a little more shine. I’m going to get hold of either some acrylics (which I haven’t painted with in years – never liked them but I think they’ve improved since I was 20!)  or some water soluble oils, and give that a shot.

We’re expecting a hurricane this weekend (a very unusual thing up here in New Hampshire) so maybe I’ll go get some paints when I go out for groceries, and shut myself in with them and play. Sounds like fun!

It’s kind of a funny name, but while I painted this I really did have that enchanted feeling of imagining my special place, in a childhood kind of way. This is from my imagination, with the help of a few glances at a David Hockney painting I like.

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More flowers from my little garden.

Here’s another one – even more “stacked figure” ish. I enjoy the personalities .

I enjoy paintings like these – the gesso is thick and creamy. The images are reminiscent of my “stacked figure” series , which was done in marker and watercolor, but these are much looser by necessity – hard to be fastidious with gesso and a big brush!