paintings and other diversions

I have been painting, but haven't posted in a while. Here are some new pieces (probably a good word to use...)

This is a good friend - or is it me....




















This is the end of a time... a good time, but transitions are always tough.

























This is one after my trip to Peru. It's Machu Piccu. A truly inspriational and spiritual place.





These are some of my paintings. I started working in oils about a year and a half ago, after a lifetime of sketching in black and white. I finally got brave enough to open up to larger canvas, tougher composition, texture, and of course, color.

It's the type of thing that you never really master, but I'm far enough in to enjoy it now. At the risk of sounding falsely modest, I'm somewhere past being embarassed, a bit short of being proud. For the sake of creativity, that's probably not a bad place to be.

The first three are from pictures that I took when I was in Africa. I've been doing landscapes recently, which is a new area for me.

You can click on any of these pictures to see a larger version.








































Here are a few older ones. These are less literal and more, what, representational? Maybe a little surreal? I'm not sure what to call this style. Just stuff that pops into my head.






































This one is a sculpture by Henry Moore called Recumbant Figure. It's in the Tate Britain museum in London. It's a big piece, probably 15 feet long and 10 feet high. Really amazing stuff. There is also an outdoor sculpture gallery in Dallas that has a lot of his work.