My Latest Effort

My daughter Liz snapped a photo of this mult-colored tiled roof while in the south of France this fall. I thought it would make a good painting. It's a good thing she doesn't visit this blog often, because I'm going to surprise her with it for her birthday.

Checking out my Art Prize Installation

Latest painting

Orange Light #2, 30 by 40 oil on canvas. Gift to Diane and Gary Kurek

Art Prize #2

Today I finished the back (or the front, depending how you approach it) of my Art Prize contribution. I think it is a bit more interesting than the first side. I had cataract surgery yesterday and everything seems a lot brighter.

Art Prize 2012

This year's Saugatuck entry in the Art Prize exhibit in Grand Rapids is a complete departure from last year's entry. (see earlier posts) It is also something new for me, an exercise in color and shape only--no representational work or curved lines.  This is the front of the piece--I am still working on the back.. It is 8 feet by 18 inches.  It will hang with 18 others in a "walk through" environment in September.

Latest Work

I finished this piece last night and hope to present it to its new owner next week. Many liberties were taken with the composition. The buyer wanted a vertical composition of what was a horizontal image. With apologies to Mr. Chiluly, his spheres were made transparent.

A new Commission

When we return to Michigan in late May, I will begin a large painting based on a visit to Fairchild Gardens in Miami, actually a photograph of a piece by Dale Chiluly that was installed there a couple of years ago.  I visited the place a couple of weeks ago to take more pictures only to discover the piece had been replaced by another work. So my work will probably be a combination of images based on this and the new photos. Stay tuned.

Where have I been?

Where I haven't been is at the easel. I turned 75 two days ago and I'd better get cracking if there's going to be any more art on this blog