Phantom Bluff 11x14
Now that the weather has turned warm and sunny, it's hard to resist the temptation to drop everything and get outdoors to paint. The most reliable subject, painted while sitting on the comfort of my dock, is Phantom Bluff. I never tire of its special beauty, but when I look back over the various paintings I have done of it these past few years, they seem very much alike. It's as if I have only one sort of vision and can only see what my mind allows. Other painters have done series on the same subject, but normally they paint differences in light or in hue or something to challenge them to see more. I guess I will have to be satisfied with the nuanced improvements I see gradually taking shape as Time goes by.
Mary S Young Trail 9x12
But after that brief preview of summer, the faintest base tan established, the gin and tonics enjoyed and dinners on the deck, the rains are back, of course. There is always the work in the notebooks, portrait sketches to fill in the pauses of workout routines:
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