I’ve just posted an image of the painting of snow I mentioned in my last journal post. It’s been one of those pieces — I see something different in it everyday. It is such a complicated piece when I am painting it up close, but becomes a simple design that melds together when I stand back. It’s a mystery to me when paintings do that. I hope to have it done soon. I have a number of things to add to the piece, but It’s beginning to take shape. I don’t know about other artists, but every painting that forms in my head is or appears to be perfect — until I try to actually paint it of course. I would love to be able to transfer these images from my mind directly to the painting surface. It seems that you can never accomplish all you want to in a painting — say everything you want to say. That is probably the way it’s supposed to be. If you could say everything you wanted to say in a single painting, you would never need to paint another one. With that said, I will be painting for quite a while :).
I have a number of new editions being released this weekend for our annual Fall/Winter exhibition at the Carpenter Nature Center. I will be donating an original piece, an 8×10, to be raffled or auctioned for the nature center’s benefit. At this time I don’t know how they will arrange the fundraiser, but I will post information about it in the website as soon as I am notified — if you are interested in joining in. One of my galleries has a client interested in a larger swan painting that they’ve requested I paint for them. I will be starting that painting for them soon. I think I will be painting it 20×30.
"Our prayers are answered not when we are given what we ask, but when we are challenged to be what we can be." — Morris Adler