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Sunshine State of Mind

Annoyingly enough, some dummy forgot to pack the camera battery and is now only on 1 bar. So I won't be able to photograph my drawings on this trip, unless I can find a charger somewhere. Ooops. Sigh. Otherwise I am truly enjoying the sunshine.

And since I just tried uploading a pic of the house and the internet is not fast enough to accomplish this ... some things will just have to wait until I see snow again.

Little Pawn Posting

Gotta get up real early so posting quickly as yet another snow storm hits the city. Winter wonderland continues, oh let it snow let it snow. Crap. It is beautiful until tomorrow morning when I have to drive in it. So lets enjoy the moment.

Photos were taken on a very cold balconey. Still can't get the paper to look actually white. Don't think they will let me show this at Rebas either, but did a few anyway.

Day in the studio

Chess is as to golf ...

Lion is King ....

Drawings for March Show

Gotta work on drawings, lots of drawings, so that I have choices for my show in Rebas during the month of March. So I'm just working now, nothing really specific, just different sorts of little drawings ...

Still Painting

Still working on my recent painting, initially a sortof portrait of MRS. His fascination with the artist Man Ray was something I wanted corporated into the piece, which singles this painting out from the rest of my pieces as it pulls imagery from one of his most famous pieces and merges them into this piece.

As it turns out, the main quandry is the portrait treatment itself. At this moment, it can't help but stand apart in the piece, both in treatment and feeling. I now have the destinct feeling that the painting will move further away from a portrait, perhaps my definition thereof, by virtue of the problem of my own making: the allowance of colour to define dimension and depth within each shape, while uniting them into a whole. How to do this while still maintaining character within a facial 'portrait'? Of course, i've been experimenting with a loosening of the dependence on lines, which is only adding to my current questioning.

I need to feel my way forward on this one, as my next piece is already in mind and will face the same challenge, compounded by numbers of persons and water. Hmmm. Gotta think for a night. Will do some more drawings in the meantime.