New Year in the making

Good grief moving is a dynamic that takes the wind out of your sails and at the same time you're fueled to start your next chapter. at the beginning of the year i moved in with my partner, and created my studio in a shoe box space that fits like a comfortable slipper.

The first painting of the group shown below was started in my previous space, and completed here in my current space. the rest are a culmination spread all the way through today July 14th.

I have been working through various styles and slowly pinpointing what I think may be a new style all together. I'll let you know what I've found. So the first was my take on Jean Millet's "Man with a Hoe"

There are may styles that I like that I've worked through so far and I am really attracted and attached to this hard agle. I try to give perspective, at the same time i'm trying to keep a reletively flat appearance yet including depth. Taking cues from the Fauves (Matise and Andre Derain mostly) using unrealistic colors in "realistic" form. The human for I exagerate, and keep a sense of obscurity to them. I want the form to speak rather than a face.

This piece above I was going to do hard agles like the previos work, but I just didn't get there...nor did I truly start there either. This is a small pice 8x10".

with a love for the fauves, Impressionism I felt compelled to work on this pice--also inspired by my trip to San Jose Del Cabo in March. I feel it's still unfinished...

With my hard agles and simplistic design I moved to oa hopper feel in this work with a more contemporary concept. This was from an old photo of a car business that used to exist in Portland Oregon.

Keeping with the ongoing theme of geometric design and simplistic concept here I turned an inspired painting by Monet into my own dream scape.