A Tabasco sauce bottle, oil on linen board, 5" by 7", February 2008
Two Strawberries, oil on linen board, 5" by 7", February 2008
An Apple and a Porcelain Pitcher, oil on linen board, 11"x14", February 2008Just to liven up a dismal and dark day, I took a break from my bouquet of tulips and decided to carve out a tight little rendering of an apple and a ceramic pitcher. It's always a good challenge to find color in white porcelain against a shadowed white background.
I'm going to try out this new blog system, and I have to admit, it feels strange just writing the word "blog". I've been keeping an online journal since before the term "weblogging" which then became "blogging", which is now such a common word. Blog, blog, blog, it sounds like the noise a wet frog would make when it jumps in the mud. Weird. Anyway, I'm going to start on a series of tiny paintings. Some of these will be small versions of large paintings, others will be sketches for what might become large paintings, and others will be masterpieces on their own. And on top of all this, I'm going to make these available to all of the teaming masses that wonder how they can ever build up a collection of my work with the rising price of gas, global warming, and general economic turmoil. As Sting so eloquently put it, "When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around". My eyes are only looking toward the brave new future, and I'd like to take as many of you with me as I can. I can hardly wait until tomorrow, so stay tuned for some exciting new additions to this collection of very small paintings in the upcoming weeks.
