so look at this sky...the yellow field...the shadows creeping in...the distance...wax is amazing

the soft pink skies of my childhood...we lived across the way from the Miami River so this was a regular view for me growing up

this is my addiction to those blue trees...with the sunrise...if the photo was better you'd really 'feel' the sunrise...I will try better next time...oh, did I mention that I really like to paint and not do this technology thing

I grew up in Ohio...this looks like any field in my childhood...and sky...we used to ride our horses bareback all through the fields (whether they were ours or not...)we just crushed down the fences and road...we had a lot of freedom as children...there were no 'terrorists' or crazy people who would hurt children so our parents were relaxed with us...breakfast and then put a sandwich in our pocket and we were expected home by dinner...in the summer,of course

Here I wanted to smooth out the texture with the final coat of clear medium which I then scaped down so mostly this is very smooth

this is a great example of how i get to the texture...I put down a layer of dark (in this case warm) and then add clear medium after the burning/fusing with the layer beneathe then I scrumble the next contrasting layer of color fuse/clear medium then the last layer here is the white for the 'clouds"but let me not lead you into the temptation and deliver you from the evil of thinking this is anything other than playing with wax

I am visualizing the stillness of nature here contrasting with the endlessness of space...verticle and horizontal tensions combined with the testures...hmmmm

this is to represent just standing alone with lots of space around me...you really get that 'space' thing out west..not so much int he mountains..that is why I prefer the mountains

So this is against all of the 'rules'...never put the center of interest in the CENTER!!!so can I violate the 'rules' and make this work? I think so...sometimes I feel like this red bush surrounded by such lovely calm colors/people...I envy them their calmness you know but I fight against being bored so much...

so actually the sky is VERY yellow...sunlight extraordinaire! the contrast and texture make this a yummy painting and I am proud of it...that is a strange thing about being an artist...I can be totally proud of some piece and then come back to it a couple of months later and think...."what was I thinking????"

this is also a shellac burn....and I think pretty successful...but the photo is a bit blurry...I was really trying to get the distance thing going...on a 12"x12" board this is not easy...skies are so much fun to 'create'...I put the paint down and then blow away and tilt the board this way and that until the clouds please me...I wish everything was this easy...just some heat and tilt...

This is good to have to say something...actually this one I was playing with contrasting colors...not trees and water and sky...GOD plays with that!!!!I play with wax

now doesn't this make you feel calm? well, up close and personal you'd just have to touch this! I LOVE WAX! I was trying to create the illusion of distance...I think it works here

Now we are talking...this is a 12"x16" and is truly so exciting...texture and bumps and lumps...threw in the color just to keep you looking...but you'd have to touch this one..yup...just gotta do it...and that is the beauty of wax..it WANTS to be touched...to be experienced for what it is..what it brings to the table...a lot like some people...and some people like to be looked at under glass...I was thinking how proud I was at my 60th birthday party and all the things people said about me on the video that Onae put together...no one said that they loved me because I was perfect...because I did everything 'right'...that I was pretty or smart or skinny...or because of my hair...thank goodness the things I think about a lot do not take over my life/my relationships...thank goodness that is not the legacy I have created...maybe these paintings are...

yup!!! the ole red poppies in the foreground trick...effective when what you really wanted to do is paint those three blue trees...and the sky..oh to do clouds like a blow torch...I think that is like GOD's breath!!! the inhale and exhale..a.nd sometimes GOD has a cold..or sneezes...or burps!

so you tell me...is this about texture/composition or color? or are we still thinking I am painting landscapes????

this too is blurry...I am lazy...actually not lazy just in a hurry...always...about everything...keeps me from sleeping well

sO WE FOUR...I outlined these images with red because ...they needed that...but the background...or the truth is I felt the horses were the background...did this work?

so I grew up with horses...I like their shapes, their smells, their eyes..the way they like to be together...and they are not like redwing black birds...falling out of the sky...so this painting has little to do with horses and mostly about what they are standing in....LOTS OF WAX

My favoitest thing about painting is just this...the wonderful things that happen when I apply heat...if you can make this close up you will see the detail created by the heat...it is exciting..and uncontrollable
like other important functions in our lives

Didn't those redwing black birds falling out of the sky bother you? I meanm they (the scientists) rushed to an explanation to explain by saying it happens ALL THE TIME...has it ever been brought to your attention in THIS lifetime...strange I am telling you ...strange...so this is all about that...STRANGE...I AM TELLING YOU...and smooth

Close up of the girl in the box..who is she?

Started this as knots...well, after lots of layering of wax and scraping...and that was not enough...how often do I start out with an idea and it just flat out is not enough...well...in the box I put a transfered (the rub process) of a painting of a girl I had done ...so now I have created meaning..you figure it out

so is this a cow...or WAX? gotcha!