Some days are heavy with sadness

SHE IS LEAVING

The day is heavy

The impeding loss is great

From some inner darkness

A voice cries out……wait

I need more time for things unsaid

For words, for memories…

Anything to avoid the dread

THE SADNESS OF THE WORLD

 

And I feel all the sadness of the world

There must be a place within me that belongs to

Every man – every where – of every time

MORE BARNS

My fascination with these small paintings continues unabated, even as I explore new approaches. I recently posted a small series of Tuscan landscapes done with pastels on clay mono types. Below are several recent pieces in my barn series.


pastel and ink on clay mono type


pastel and ink on clay mono type


pen and ink and markers


pastel on clay mono type


pastel on clay mono type

STILL EXPLORING...

watercolors and mixed media. Trying to create a more harmonious palette/painting by limiting myself to three basic transparent pigments, using others for details. In this piece the foreground is a series of washes using a mixture of Aerulean yellow and rose madder. The darker grass was done with burnt sienna and the barn with cadmium red and the 3 main trees with acrylic titanium white.


the Plains... water media 8x10"

Here is this scene as painted several years ago in pastel.



High Plains Hills 28x40" pastel

AUTUMN IN PASTEL

Another reworked pastel. This painting has moved through several different lives. Initially a simple pastel, and later overworked with more pastel and an encaustic varnish. Yesterday I decided it looked too harsh, and began still another application of pastel.


Autumn in Pastel aprox 12x28 $500