Sunrise over the Manatee River (oil on board, 5.5 x 16.5)
Manatee River
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Palma Sola Bay
Eastern sky near sunset (oil on board, 16.5 x 5.5)
Diptych 2
One of the many eastern red cedars
on West Island, Fairhaven, Mass.
Merry Christmas, Bets!
Diptych
West Island, Fairhaven, Mass. Happy Birthday, Bets! Finishing up tiny things already started: oil on 4×6″ watercolor paper x2.
Throwaway
Still overworking and losing the original gesture, but throw it away and move on!
Practice
View from the Shark Valley lookout tower, Everglades National Park
Keep trying
Fruitlands Museum, Oxford, Mass.
Fell into nervous detail at the end, but still had fun.
Back to school
Long-dead tree in bright morning sun (oil on masonite)
On the advice of a friend who battles the same small-and-detailed habits as I do, I’m getting some fresh education and inspiration from Mary Gilkerson and other YouTube painting teachers. Starting with value sketches and following a few classic rules, I’m keeping it as fun, fast, and free as I can.
Value sketch for long-dead tree
Surfacing
Water-soluble oil on watercolor paper
Refuge
Lighthouse Beach, Annisquam, Gloucester, Mass. (4×6″ oil on watercolor-paper postcard)
If we consider experience like a raging sea, in the middle of the sea there is a little island with a lighthouse on it, showing everyone who is lost at sea where to take refuge, where there is dry land, where it is safe. This patch of land is called ‘now’.
Normally we think that our suffering is in the now and so we try to escape our suffering by going into the past and the future. Actually, it’s only when we think of the past and future that we suffer. The now is the place where we’re safe.
—Rupert Spira
Art for Tiny Houses 