Monday, February 3, 2014

What's Happening in this Painting?


What's happening in this painting? What should be added? (Hint: on the left is a mirror, not a window. Actually a window seen in a mirror. Outside the window are several neon lights. In the final version, the various neon colors will dance across the wall, blue, red, and resulting purple. This version is the monochrome under-painting.)

Here are some things to add, not listed in order of merit. What would you add? ? ?

* A vase of wilted flowers, petals on the floor.

* A scattering of origami creatures.

* Cut out, wadded newspaper on the floor; on the table a page with cutout words from the newspaper taped into crude lines; a pair of scissors; a scotch tape dispenser.

* A bathrobe, white terry, dragged across the floor to the open door ajar, or dropped in a heap in front of the door ajar.

* An old bakelite phone, off hook.

P * L * E * A * S * E   send me your ideas.

Updated Painting


This might be the final change for this one. Taken from an angle because the gold paint reflected back very strongly where now hung.

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

More incomplete painting

24 x 24. Been working on this for awhile. About half the constellations are painted in. Can you guess how the rest of them go?

Monday, January 13, 2014

Work in Progress


This is in progress, but the very basic composition is there. Showed some watercolors working up to this at the 'Critique' last week. This is in oil, however. About 12" x 16" ?

Thursday, December 19, 2013

Bee Housecleaning Update

A couple more pics showing how well hives have cleaned up, and how many dead bees have been dumped outside when the weather warmed up last few days. Now back into cold and snow, so hope they got the hives swept out.

Swarm hive on Tuesday. Still a porch full of dead bees.

Maria hive, porch all cleaned off.

Monday, December 16, 2013

Bring Out Your Dead

Fairly bad weather last month. One week of low temps, with one night at -19F. Light but persistent snow.

Last few days warmer, with one day 51 deg. Today presently 39 deg with clouds at 1030. Both hives making big effort to remove dead bees. Maria has dumped an impressive pile of bees onto ground just in front of the hive. Swarm has porch stacked with dead bees. Just a few bees in evidence at each hive doing the carrying out.