Holiday Traffic

In 5pm December darkness,

traffic lights,
holiday lights 

at a four-way intersection

of six lane traffic - 
confusion driven by the angst
 of unmeetable obligations.

Gift Wrap

'Tis the season

Soylent Green

. . . is people!!!

Between the Lines. . .

. . . there is a lot of crap.

Fantasy Checkers

The checkerboard pattern,
warped perspective,
and my delight in
a play on the words
"fact checkers."

 

Starlink and Space Stations

I saw Starlink
and the International Space Station
this week.
My first sighting, by chance.

Out West

Another abstract landscape built up from strokes of sumi ink. The more time and attention given to it, the more solid and recognizable it became. 

Urban Sprawl

A one brush experiment
in strokes of sumi ink,
toned with cadmium yellow watercolor
to create a brassy effect.
The result seems to me like an aerial view
of rooftops, sidewalks,
reflecting pools, and grassy lawns.

 

available on ebay

Music of the Spheres

To me

instrumental music

is the equivalent

of abstract art.

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This is another blank watercolor greeting card
from an ongoing series of abstracts.

Signed and dated,
the prose above are handwritten
on a separate page of vellum,
(to trash or treasure, whichever is your pleasure)
Envelope included.

available on ebay

Could've Been

These abstract brush strokes could have been
fish, or needles, or dried grass stems.
Could've been
that the movie runs backwards:
hurricanes build homes and lush landscapes -

earthquakes restore tall buildings and old cities -
floods repair roads, remove debris, stabilize hillsides -
and fired guns remove bullets and bring people back to life.

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This is another blank watercolor greeting card
from an ongoing series of abstracts.

Signed and dated on the back,
the prose above are handwritten
on a separate page of vellum,
(convenient for burning if you find the words irritating)
Envelope included.

available on ebay

Get Well Soon

With nothing in mind,
this abstract watercolor card
was created
four months before the pandemic,

using gold marker.

Sure looks to me
like trouble
under a microscope.

The Jealous People

Thinking of You,
the jealous people,
the ones that said
"I hate you."

for sale on ebay

 

Grace comes into focus

Grace comes into focus

afterwards.

available through the artist

We live between

We live between
Heaven and Earth.

available through the artist

Infinite Potential

 
The infinite potential
of nothingness.

available through the artist

Pursuit of happiness

A frenetic, looping chase
around an imagined goal:

the pursuit of happiness.

available through the artist

Pacing the Cage

Of all Bruce Cockburn's oeuvre
Pacing the Cage
holds for me
the most powerful poetry.

available through the artist

To Understand

To understand,
we impose patterns
upon random energy.

Somewhere Above

Somewhere above
the chaotic abstractions
is a place of calm.

Those Lines Again

Those lines again,
ever since that drawing class

with Paul Vasquez
back in 1976,
they keep showing up.

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Flurry of Colors

One of a series of small watercolor
paintings on card stock.

 

Abscape

Abstract turned landscape, again.

Thanks to Jim A. for the new word.

Plaids Are Not My Thing

Plaids are not my thing,
but the linear play of brushstrokes were too tempting.

Good Morning Warmup #5,

 a small watercolor available through the artist

Good Morning Warmup 4

Began as an abstract,

grew into a landscape.

available through the artist

Good Morning Warmup 3

Discretion

Where might this conversation lead?
To a harmonious outcome?
Along a tangent, toward ambiguity?
Into an impassibly perpendicular crossroad?

Site lines, 
timelines,
storylines,
fishing lines,
pickup lines,
deadlines.

Beware the seduction of form,
a lure.

5"x 8" watercolor, available through the artist

 

Good Morning Warmup 2

UncErtaiNty
A gelatinous soup of potential,
dimensionless fog of ambiguity,
ubiquitous ambivalence
distilled into two dimensions.

5"x8" watercolor is available from the artist

Good Morning Warmup 1

Creating routine in the studio
means having to fool myself

into doing "the right thing".

Don't over think it.
Jump in the deep end,

thrash about,
savor small moments of success.

Stroke by stroke,
become comfortable in the element
until finally,
 rise up and out
to look back
over the cohesive accumulation
of efforts.

5"x8" watercolor and ink 

Goodbye Cicadas, Goodbye Summer

A cool September evening

and bars of brassy light,
low-angled,

stripe my back bent
over a drawing table

studying the body
of a cicada carcass.

Found in the garden
dead
clinging to a support
above the earth 
where it had laid it's eggs

after a passionate August affair
that it had spent years
anticipating.

Hours passed
giving my full attention
to every detail of the body
recording with crow quill pen
and india ink.

Considering the perfect balance
of it's form,
the grand finale of it's existence
 surpassing even the need
to eat
or maintain it's own life
so dedicated to love
and reproduction
it was.

I cannot help but feel

respect and affection
for this being

and it's kin.

Cicada Emerging

July has brought the cicadas out again.
The higher the temperature,
the louder they sing.

This is a line drawing of a cicada
resting after emerging

from it's final molt.

Wings still soft and green,
the crumpled husk
of it's old skin
already brittle.

This drawing is available
for your coloring pleasure
or use as clip art
through Etsy. 

Ledger's Way to Walnut Hill Park

The view is of an entrance to Walnut Hill Park,
across from the hospital
in New Britain, Connecticut
in late January 2022.

This particular location was in disrepair,
but I preferred to depict it as I believe it can become
with a little care from the city.

This painting was shown in
the New Britain Museum of American Art

2022 Nor'Easter Exhibit.

It is a 40"x 30" acrylic painting
on stretched canvas,
framed and wired for hanging.

For sale through Etsy

Tribal Runes

The impulse to make

a mark
a stoke
a word
a sound
setting in motion
the vibration of a particle
a wave in the substance
giving form
to form to form to form to form. . .

This is a 11 3/4" x 9 3/4" pen and ink drawing
on acid-free watercolor paper,
preserved under glass,
it's hardwood frame is detailed
with delicate inlaid woods.

For sale through Etsy

Green Question

Light and airy as contrails across the sky
what little plane?
who's warm hand?
made these graceful blue strokes
of cryptic writing
through watercolor greens
over sunrise yellow
under sunset orange
to finally land gently
before your loving eyes.

This is a 13 3/4" x 10 3/4" watercolor painting
framed in teak wood under glass,
signed and dated by the artist.

For sale through Etsy