Sunbeams

acrylic on canvas, 12" x 16"

Arc of Color

A dress pattern worn by a young woman in "Psycho 2" influenced my palette for this painting. She was filmed in bright sunlight outside the Bates home. Not a typical inspiration for me, but the colors were exciting. I confined my colors to lemon yellow, turquoise titanate, transparent magenta and titanium white. This piece is one of six I worked on during the summer of 1986.


acrylic on canvas, 12" x 16"

Wanderin' Water

acrylic on canvas, 18" x 36"

Stream

This was one of three paintings I created after graduating from college. I attempted to use more earth tones.


acrylic on canvas, 18" x 36"

Flow

In this paintings I built up my neutrals by glazing basic colors, one on top of the other. I wanted to see how far I could push the process.


acrylic on canvas, 18" x 36"

Loop

acrylic on canvas, 18" x 36"

Break

At this time I worked on a group of paintings as experiments. I was trying out some different ideas to decide which way I might want to go.


acrylic on canvas, 18" x 36"

Color Burst

This is the sister painting of "Plane Color."


acrylic on canvas, 15" x 30"

Plane Color

In critiques from one professor, I was instructed not to bring all areas of a piece up to the same level of finish. In this painting and a sister one I took that idea to an extreme. I left one side of each painting less finished.

This painting is a good example of layered glazes of acrylic. You can see one color through another. I started working this way following my college watercolor experiences.


acrylic on canvas, 15" x 30"

Garden Light

This is the sister painting to "Garden Color."


acrylic on canvas, 18" x 36"

Garden Color

In college, my professors fussed about us using “tube color” – colors straight out of the tube. We were encouraged to neutralize our colors. When I created paintings after college I tried to continue to mix colors that way. But then fans of my work complained that they missed my bright colors. This is one of several paintings I made in response to that complaint. I still make a point of using brighter colors.


acrylic on canvas, 18" x 36"

Doodle Poles

Often I doodle images like this one . . . this time I decided to try one as a painting instead of just a sketch.


acrylic on canvas, 24" x 30"