Self Portrait

Textured Acrylic on Flat Panel
10" x 8"
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I haven't done a self portrait in a long time. There are a couple of reasons for this: First, I've really committed myself to my texturing technique to keep my body of work cohesive - this presents real challenges when doing a portrait.
Second, and more important, I find staring at myself for long periods pretty disconcerting.
Overall, I had fun painting a different subject matter - it's good to mix things up from time to time!

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Yellow Sky

Textured Acrylic on Panel
24" x 12" x 2"
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"All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and then leading the individual towards freedom."
- Albert Einstein


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November Trees

Textured Acrylic on Canvas 8" x 8" x 1.5"
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Another variation on the tree cluster today. Trees are endlessly fascinating to me - I love to try and capture the negative space shapes they make against the sky.

It's been back up in the 70's the last couple of days - amazing how much more you appreciate the warmth after being hit by a snowstorm!

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Tree Cluster

Textured Acrylic on Canvas 6" x 6" x 1.5"
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"If a given combination of trees, mountains, water, and houses, say a landscape, is beautiful, it is not so by itself, but because of me, of my favor, of the idea or feeling I attach to it."
- Charles Baudelaire

"Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf."
- Albert Schweitzer

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Snowy Field

Textured Acrylic on Canvas 6" x 6" x 1.5"
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"A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water."
- Carl Reiner

"It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily. "So it is." "And freezing." "Is it?" "Yes," said Eeyore. "However," he said, brightening up a little, "we haven't had an earthquake lately."
- A. A. Milne

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Snow Day

Textured Acrylic on Canvas 10" x 10" x 1.5"
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It's been very snowy here this week.
It's no secret that I'm not a fan of snow. It's pretty, and I will suspiciously peer at it through the window, but I have no desire to actually be in it.
I've avoided painting it in the past - I figure to paint it is to acknowledge it, and I enjoy my warm and toasty denial.
So, this is one of my first real attempts to paint a snow-scape. I kept it pretty monochromatic. I noticed that my inner dialog about the inconvenience of the snow fell away as I focused on the patterns, shapes, and light it creates.

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Quiet

Textured Acrylic on Flat Panel 8" x 10"
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"There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it."
- Minnie Aumonier

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Autumn Pond

Textured Acrylic on Flat Panel 8" x 10"
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"Water is the driver of Nature."
- Leonardo da Vinci

"I have left almost to the last the magic of water, an element which owing to
its changefulness of form and mood and colour and to the vast range of its
effects is ever the principal source of landscape beauty, and has like music
a mysterious influence over the mind."
- Sir George Sitwell

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October Trees

Textured Acrylic on Canvas 6" x 6" x 1.5"
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My friends are taking me up to Beaver Creek (up in the CO mountains) tomorrow for a bonafide girls night out at a spa. I've never been to a spa before - I wonder if they get many visitors with layers of paint permanently wedged in their nails!
I've heard of this whole relaxation concept, and am quite excited to give it a whirl.
Plus, it's gorgeous up there this time of year so I hope to come back with new painting ideas.

Note: The sky in this piece is actually a pinkish hue - couldn't capture it quite right in the photo.

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Purple Field

Textured Acrylic on Canvas 8" x 8" x 1.5"
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"The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life."
- William Faulkner

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Contemporary Landscape 3

Textured Acrylic on Panel 10" x 30" x 2"
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"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for."
- Georgia O'Keeffe

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