Valentine!

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Artist Note

Happy Valentine's Day to YOU

...and my wonderful,

amazing New Mexico. It is not called

The Land Of Enchantment for nothing.

I love it and am grateful I found it...

or it found me!

Lots of sorting out and making floor plans.

I feel like an architect! 

We are being professionally moved.

Downsizing sounds easy

but we have to make sure 

everything fits

and accessories like 

lamps and paintings

have a home.

Or...

we will have to pay to move

what doesn't fit - out.

Enjoy your day.

If you don't have a Valentine

please remember

the most 

precious one of all is YOU!

Mums, Picasso & Cherries

Mums, Picasso & Cherries.

8"x6"  oil on linen panel  SOLD

Artist Note.
 The cherries are still
inspiring me, so I went into a 

different color palette

and am happy I did.
I find the color harmony
in this one very appealing.

This is an extra personal painting
because I used 

an old and much loved
Picasso top
as the background.

The challenge of this was

how to do a "busy" painting

but still manage to

keep a focal area.

It was fun to paint.

Pansy Pleasure... continued

Pansy Pleasures - continued

8x6' oil on canvas  Sold..

What's not to like about pansies? 

They are sturdy, colorful and

have a happy face. Best of all 

they provide visual pleasure

throughout the winter months. 

Artist Note.

One of the advantages I find by 

using the Fracturing technique

is the ability to suggest something by color, 

without rendering it perfectly.

In this case, I first painted the focal point 

with the correct form of a pansy.

Once this had been established I could 

then make any shape, and as

long as I repeated a color or used 

the very distinctive yellow center,

it would read as a pansy.

Here is a close up to show you how abstract 

the one above and next to the focal pansy is.

The mind makes it a pansy 

because it is next to a pansy of 

the same color.

Also the little touch of a yellow center 

is code for pansy.

I am experimenting with painting the pansies

in watercolor on Yupo and regular paper. FUN.

but hard to get what I want. 

P.S.

This is a repeat of a post I did back 

a couple of years ago. I am busy wrapping up 

the classes for the year, One more week!