tidying up ...

Cleaning out my flat files, looking for some paintings or ideas for paintings for two small group shows I'll be in this summer in West Cape May.
I found an unfinished painting of gladiolas and finished it.

painting with mike

 

Painted with my friend Mike last week--we were both rusty, our paints dry. I wanted to do a simple 

setup: a twig in a glass. Mike added the proverbial monkey wrench: the clippers ... which were a great addition, and something I'd never have thought of. 

Another good reason to paint with a friend!

blue heron

7x11

As always happens when I haven't painted in a while, I come back pretty stiff ... 

Need to paint more to loosen up!

going big

18x22

My good friends bought a house in Fla., and they have big expanses of wall to fill.

So, I am going to try to do a big painting for them; I thought some tropical-foliage-type theme would be appropriate and maybe easier for me to paint, if I could break it down into smaller shapes ...

This is my first try, first wash.

Kind of a mess, eh? So many times I was going to stop, but then I decided to keep going and see, once the painting dried, if maybe I could "fix" it with a second pass.

Either way, it's, I hope, a learning experience.

The second drawing I have is of canna lilies.

american oystercatcher

Hello! I'm sorry I haven't been posting: in January I started getting "network error" messages every time I tried to post ... In short order all the things I knew to do were exhausted.
After awhile I stopped trying! And, in truth, I haven't painted much in the last couple of months.
But spring is here and the daffodils are about bloom, which means painting!