number 1

looks like me peeking in the side

This next series of posts is paintings that I am doing starting this April 4th. 7 days till my birthday.

I've so far called this one "Paging Richard Dreyfuss" because it looks like devils tower.

These paintings are all works in progress. I have ideas of what I'm doing - going to be doing on most of them. This one I have very little Idea. It is nice the way it is, but there are a few things I will do at the bottom to make that blue do something more. There isn't really much I can do about the bubbles right now, but that is a concern that I have considered addressing. One of the things I am doing now on these paintings is the contrast between flat colors and glossy colors. I'm also (hard to see on most of these) using more definition than I ever have before. Most of my paintings in the past are smooth. I painstakingly smoothed out ripples and rolls in the paint like someone painting a wall in a house would. I had a more craft and less painterly approach in the past. Letting the paint drip and mix colors on the canvas is always something I have been trying to do more.