06/04/2014 Sunrise Color Reflections on Water

Sunrise Color Reflections on Water

More Artwork from Work!

I started this piece on 5/27/14.  Everyday I worked I spent some time on it.  I used different brushes, pencils and techniques, just trying out to see what effects I could get.  Today, I am done.  Time to move on to something new. 

Work Art 05-26-2014

Working on Memorial Day.  Haven't done that for a while. More green out the window everyday.  I hope you all understand that I am leaving the parking lot out of my pictures.  Otherwise you would be seeing cars, trucks, light posts and campers instead of trees and grass.  Actually, the grass is all in my head and so are the paths.  I was watching a show on PBS yesterday about how to paint roads or paths so I decided to add some into my picture. I also added more purplish shadows.  I usually like blue. I like it.

More Art at Work

My favorite colors. 

Art at work, literally.  This was done using Paint on my work computer.  05-21-14
I look out big windows, which is a big perk.  I have been watching spring arrive, seemingly one leaf at a time.  It is May 21, 2014 and the trees are not full, the grass is not all green.  We have a family of geese including 4 or 5 babies living in the pond on the side.  They walk across the parking lot through the cars and trucks and RVs. 

McHenry, Illinois

This painting was done in my hotel room in McHenry, Illinois.  Again the lighting was crappy!  I turned every light in the room on and had the curtains open for what little daylight I could get!   This canvas has a ripple in it on the left side because I had it in my carry bag and something hard and round pressed in to it.  I decided it to use it anyway since right now I am just trying new things.  I like this one so I am trying to get that ripple out!

Chasing Spring

When you drive from Wisconsin to Louisiana in March you go from winter gradually to Spring.  For us Spring didn't start until we got south of Memphis.  Then we noticed the grass, then the trees and finally in New Orleans we had flowers!  Of course the return trip reverses the process and even after being gone 9 days, we still came back to snow on the north sides of roads, houses, yards and piles of snow in the parking lots.  I did this piece in our hotel suite at a window that looked out at an empty brick building.  I didn't realize how bad the light was until I found myself with this dark little painting, which is not what I set out to produce.  Actually this is the 3rd reincarnation.  The first one, I didn't like much so I painted some more.  The 2nd version reminded Karen of Big Bird (she wasn't totally wrong) and so I painted some more and got this dark little piece where it seems we are looking back along the route that we took as we chased after spring and finally caught her.