Welcome!

I am so happy and excited to be making a painting each day. This is something I’ve thought about doing for over 20 years but suddenly find actually works for me. It’s the perfect thing for me right now – totally liberating. My rule is that each day the painting is DONE – no fussing or fixing. If I want to tinker, then I can start fresh with a similar idea tomorrow – so I always have something to bite into if I’m not otherwise inspired. My other guiding principle is to follow my most intuitive impulses while I’m painting and not to listen to the voices (no matter how wise they were) of my art teachers from years ago, or my inner critic, but rather to work from a place of exploration and joy. So far so good – I’m having a blast!

I’ve done about 11 paintings so far and I’ll post them all now. I’m looking forward to seeing what emerges.

This is Cape Cod Trees, painted behind my friends’ campsite.


 

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Crossroads 3

Acrylic, Gesso and Pencil. 7 x 7. Bid on this painting…

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

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Crossroads 2

Acrylic, Gesso and Pencil. 7 x 7. Bid on this painting…

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

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Crossroads 1

Acrylics, Gesso and Pencil on board. 7 x 7.

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.

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Swimming Hole – Indian Love Call I

Watercolor, gesso and pencil on board. 7 x 7.

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!

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Swimming Hole – Indian Love Call II

Watercolor, gesso and pencil on board. 7 x 7. Bid on this painting…

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Swimming Hole – Indian Love Call III

Watercolor, gesso and pencil on board. 7 x 7. Bid on this painting…

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Special Place #1

Watercolor, gesso and pencil. 7 x 7. Bid on this painting…

 

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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Flowers #2

Watercolor, gesso and pencil on board. 7 x 7. Bid on this painting…

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More flowers from my little garden.

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Abstract #9

Watercolor, gesso and pencil on board. 7 x 7. Bid on this painting…

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

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Abstract #8

Watercolor, Gesso and Pencil on Board. 7 x 7.

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!

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