"Race to the Finish!"

16x20 oil on stretched canvas

so this is my homage to the "little five"...a famous bike race held every year on the IU campus in Bloomington...you may remember the movie "Breaking Away"...my daughter led her pi phi house team many years ago...and even may have caused a small skirmish, if I remember right...I may tweak this a bit as far as values but i'm pretty happy with it!

"...a little lamb"

8x6 oil on panel

so here's a little homage to Easter...a little lamb...this will be going to the carmel midland..

6x6 oil on panel

here's another little floral I did the other day..starting to get excited about my show at the southern Indiana center for the arts.  the people there are lovely and seem to be excited to have my work...

"Is it My Turn?

11x14 oil on canvas panel

so here's this little ditty a bit more..not sure i'm quite finished with it..it's at that stage where i have to stew a bit and see if i'm satisfied with the design..it's done in a limited palette so it should have pretty good color harmony but design is so important..i already see a few things I plan to fix...but tomorrow...i'm heading to the couch!

getting close...

36x36 oil on gallery wrap canvas

so I think i'm sneaking up on this...I need to photograph it in natural light..(outside)..so far i've only taken pix in my studio...you can always see thing that need to be fixed when you take a photo and use a fresh eye...so yes..i see some things i need to work on...but that's the fun of it, right???

sneaking up

so I'm sneaking up on this...photographed in my studio so there's a glare...but I also see some things I need to work on...this is so much fun...we're talking about maybe doing a little five painting since i'll be in Bloomington...maybe I haven't mentioned but I am going to be one busy little gull (jimmy- speak, my aussie son-in-law)...first of all, I was asked to do a one woman show at the southern Indiana center for the arts..(started and funded by john mellencamp and housing many of his works..many just prints)...so this will be for the month of march..with an opening right before the big ten tournament...we may not even CARE about the big ten tournament when the time rolls around..then..my gallery in Bloomington, the Venue, asked me to be their feature artist for the first Friday gallery walk on February 7th...and they want all originals and some large pieces..so i'm busy...it's a fun busy...but now our house seems to be coming apart at the seams..yes the house is 45 years old..but I was talking to a client in boston today who lives in a brownstone from way, way back...all of a sudden, the gas fireplace in the kitchen is shot..the ice maker is shot..we have no hot water..so maybe the water heater is shot..we have no cold water in the kitchen so maybe the pump is shot...are you seeing a pattern here???...we went out for a whirlpool..(still working) but I closed the fireplace screen extra tight...could you just see the house burning down while we were licking our wounds in the spa???....actually right now this all sounds ridiculous...so many people at this very moment would love to have a house falling down around their ears...(i'm remembering the homeless people we saw in new York city in November...)...so forgive my ramblings....i'm just happy i'm able to do some good with the paintings I donate!...gleaners, for one...and if you haven't heard of gleaners...they do remarkable work...all will be better in the morning....

working on a VERY LARGE derby painting...

so this is a large painting in progress...I love to do that..so the stages are easy to see..this is 36x36 and it's in preparation for two openings I have coming up...