So, two-plus months into the new year, how am I continuing to push my work forward? Am I staying away from a comfortable rut?
Perhaps! Have I ended up working small to big? No! Am I letting “paint be paint”? Yes!


I started this piece with thin layers and let them drip. One of my current goals is to retain some of the marks (and all of the energy)
from the initial drawing, but that is harder than it sounds.


The 30×40 painting landed here, for the moment… I like how the drips define the distant “foliage”. And, I love the yellow sky.
However, most of that first drawing is buried.


This 30×40 painting has kept its initial energy. Woo hoo! The original drawing is long gone but I can kinda feel it, underneath…
And the white pine is talking, for sure. (Trees have so much to say.)


This recent monotype opened up some new ideas. I like the abstract quality of the chunks of color that occur when using a brayer.


So, when I went to draw this piece, I incorporated some of that monotype by transferring the slanting lines from its sky to the
drawing on canvas.

