"Semi Okay Start" to the new painting year
January seems to be a month I always need to hurdle thru to get my painting routine back into its regular mode. December with the holidays blur into January and there always seems to be some sort of funky mood I find myself in. Any ways I have worked on an evening still life combo - self portrait that I painted several nights listening to David Bowie (in memorian), drinking and cursing. Felt good with the flood of memories of my youth. It is strange, but a year ago I was am
I never thought I'd paint a Christmas Tree
Ending the year of 2015 with this last painting. Over the years I thought how time restrictive Holiday pictures were especially of a Christmas Tree. Do you drag the painting out every year during the holidays? At the Yale Art Gallery they have had on display for a few months what as I saw as a riotess painting of a Christmas tree by the artist, Florine Stettheimer (1871-1944). It disturbs me everytime I see it. However, Yale has added other works by the same artist and my int