Myers Park Summer Morning Wins People's Award

     I'm happy to announce that my painting "Myers Park Lighthouse Summer Morning" was awarded the people's choice award at the East Shore Festival of the Arts.  Thanks to all that voted for it!
     One of my favorite things about living in Lansing is all of the beautiful places to paint.

Two Bosc Pears

The shape of the pear on the right reminded me of a large curved drop of water, and I was interested in how the color of it contrasts with the pear on the left which is more fully ripe.  I might do some more paintings later on which explore the color variations of pears at different stages .

One more ink drawing

So here is another ink drawing that I've been working on.  It's the same tree in the post from a few days ago and It's from a photo I took in Central Park several years ago.  In this drawing I was interested in how the drawing would look if I made it much darker and with lower contrast than I usually do. With this ink wash technique the dark colors have a velvety, matte finish which I like.

Some new ink drawings

 Central Park Tree 30 x 22 ink on paper 2013

 Storm  12 x 8 inches ink on paper 2013

Tree Harness 2013  14 x 10 inches 

Salt Point Cayuga Lake, Finger Lakes New York

     I have been painting and drawing a lot recently but haven't posted in a while.  I've been doing a lot of ink drawings and I've been experimenting with drawing people in Sumi ink washes.  It's totally new to me to use this material  to draw anything other than botanical images and I don't know yet if this is a diversion or a new direction for me.  I'm not ready to post them yet.   For now this is a painting I just finished to enter into the East Shore Festival of the Arts.

Plum, Fig, and Grapes

     It took me quite a while to finish this one and I had totally given up on it at one point.  The problem is that it often takes me several sittings to complete a painting and the objects sometimes deteriorate before I'm finished. This happened to me with a painting of pink tulips I've been working on recently. This painting is     6 x 8 inches and is painted in oil on a masonite panel.

Two Figs

I finished this a few hours ago.  4 x 6 inches on a hardboard panel.