Red Oak Leaf --- sold

Its that time of year when it is very easy to be overwhelmed by... not exactly sadness but a bittersweet feeling that comes with the wind and the crickets and the wafting leaves.   Reading a book called Art and Fear, it has some great things to say about the creative process.  Two quotes I like:

"Writing (painting) is easy:  all you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until the drops of blood form on your forehead."   --Gene Fowler

"Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgement difficult."

--Hippoctates

Willow sunrise

I was asked to participate in landscape show at the Accola Gallery, in Wisconsin, and this is one of the pieces I will be sending. (accolagallery.com) The show runs from October 7 through Thanksgiving. Jean Accola (owner) does beautiful watercolors and oils, and we share an interest in the prairie landscape of the midwest.

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Hosta Interior III --- sold

How do you make an all green painting interesting...

When asked what is the most beautiful in art, Ingres responded  "a colour adjacent to another which most closely resembles it".  Something to think about.  

When painting these Hosta studies I had in mind pieces that could be viewed from any orientation.

I just read "My Stroke of Insight"  by Jill Bolte Taylor.

I highly recommend it - if you haven't heard of her go to 

ted.com and type her in under speakers, there is a video of her that really blew me away. (thanks Amy!).

Nodding Trillium

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Wood Anemone --- sold

Last week I was sitting on the forest floor painting wildflowers... that was pre-rain = mosquitos and broken toe/sprained ankle (horse incident).  The wood anemone and nodding trillium are two small pieces I did.