Combustable beach

What I love about this painting is not that I was painting the beach but I was expressing the freedom and joy I have when I pick up a paintbrush...this painting is done also with oil..many layers...and is 4'x5'..

Family Secrets

This paintings I did after the large one and is on a canvas 5'x4' and in oil...I like to keep some of my pieces so I can keep track of what I thought was important...obviously I thought softly about this subject...

Spontaneous Flow

This is more like the brushwork i am using now to create my paintings...I want you to know it is not a photograph..the closer you get the more the brushstrokes come alive! I am first and last a colorist...sometimes I get carried away...

Old Man River

I did this painting 2'x4' a couple years ago. He is much more subtle but sorta depicts what I was trying to say..My style is evolving into more spontaneous/electric brush strokes but still I am quite please with this.

The Economy sucks!

My Pig seems to share my sentiments exactly...I have painted a series of these free-form paintings...this one is 2'x4'...I begin with a subject but then create and paint freely. I am comfortable with animals because I love them and as long as I create the personality then I am home free with the rest of the painting.

FAlling for RED

This is one of the 100's of wax paintings I have done on 12"x12" panels...in wax..very textured..although I was 'taught' the smooth way...went to a workshop @ Penland with an R&F teacher who was fabulous --Fall 2009..Encaustic painting is so freeing and fun. I think I love it because I cant control the process. I start out with the plan but then I torch it with a Home Depot blowtorch (Tom leaves the garage when I bring the BIG boy out)and the painting takes on a new identity.

Lake Toxaway in wax

My next huge encaustic piece...6'x4'...tons of wax...lots of blow torching...at least 20 layers...many hours...finally I was happy...that is my ending point---I paint til I am happy! sometimes a lot of angst gets released in the process...and that is the truth...