I finished this one a week ago, but I was so furious at the bad behavior of my blog, I did not want to post until I fixed it or it fixed itself. The sidebar — what you are supposed to see on the right — was on the left, all scrunched up close without … Continue reading “The Sacred Circle”
I feel I owe my life two thousand five hundred more good paintings. That exact many because if I had done a painting a week for fifty years, I could have done that many. And, in fact, I have probably painted at least a thousand paintings. I had months of a painting a day. And … Continue reading “I Will Shine Bright Before I Die”
These were the colors I studied as I waited for the bus to San Diego from Campo, California. Whole sets of greens and golds, none spectacular, all subdued, always, everywhere all around, but here, at my feet, through cracks in the asphalt, sharp. This study only took a few hours. I left it mainly “unfinished” … Continue reading “Green And Gold”
Recently, I went on an overnight trip to Los Ossos State Park and caught this scene. That is The Rock in the distance. I did not bother to paint anything human made except the scars on the land.
A rather pompous title, huh? I amuse myself that way sometimes. This painting is a tattoo. There is a before and after forever after in my style, and it has a timestamp right here, right now, with this painting. In the old days, a “Master Piece” was your submission to the guild to show you … Continue reading “Transcended Master”