I wake up, make coffee, and rummage through my sketch book, or head out to get new sketches. It's certainly not rocket science, nor is it a major preparation process. I just see life and respond to it, in the form of a painting, in whatever way I have to. Impressionist, expressionist, abstract, etc. I don't spend a lot of time planning. I save that for grocery lists. So, I'll see something, or feel something from what I saw or experienced, and just start laying in some lines with paint or just painting randomly trying to formulate my vision. When I get to a certain point, where I feel its said, .. I stop. I am not one of those people who stop after every little facet is completed and accounted for. I don't want that. I want unfinished elements in my work. Its those areas that add mystery, exploration and life to the work. Why should I tell it all? What I leave out is just as important as what I put in. 

So, in this piece, I had gone down to the lake and did a quick pencil sketch... very loose, as to what I felt I wanted to remember in the subject. Then went back to the studio, and just started painting. A line here, a bunch of color there. All semi defined. Thats enough for me. 

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note:  This is just one way I approach my work. Sometimes, I have no idea what I'm going to do. I just start messing around with the canvas to see what develops. Some blue here, a line, yellow, a shape.. and so it begins.

This is a piece I did a year or so ago, maybe longer, but it reflects some of the things I sometimes strive for in making a statement in color, shapes and interpretation of a subject. I often, move back and forth in my work. Sometimes, more traditional impressionism, and sometimes on the verge of abstract expressionism. Whatever works. In this painting, I just wanted to incorporate a busy, lively, twist and turn little city with a lot of activity and angles, lines and shapes. 

Its an 11x14 on a panel 

and done with acrylics, paper, gel medium, glue, and whatever. 

Acrylic on paper

5x5" 

Shoreline 

Keeping the brush moving in this piece was very important so as not to let it bog down in a tired execution. I want the paint to live and not be diminished in any way. Overworking can make a fine looking crafted painting, but thats not my art. This is my art. I hope I can keep the two separate. 

"Road to the Other Side", 8x10" acrylic on canvas, signed lower left

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This is a rather somber little piece I did from a view just outside my studio, looking north up the road as it ascends up a slight rise. Nothing unusual in subject matter, ... and rather ordinary. But, I like its non importance although,  I decided it was important enough to paint.

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Here's a sketch I did while having a coffee. I thought it had some potential to become a painting.  And so it did. Shortly afterwards, I began to paint out the sketch. A few things changed but all in all I kept pretty close to the sketch concept. (the photo though, is reversed due to comp. camera. )
I'll post the painting as soon as its web ready.

Well, I'm finally back in the online mix. Its been a while but its good to be back. Been a busy summer, and doing back to back shows plus everything else I can get my hands on. The season is starting to enter the grand finale stage with October approaching.
  I do look forwards to the winter months in a strange kind of way. For me, its a quiet time. A time for quality studio time and plans and preparations for the coming year. My most productive times are in the midst of winter. Winds howling, snow flying, temperature dipping below freezing. Its weird, but this allows me to hole up in my studio without the summer distractions that lure me away to do other things.
 I'm pretty much "showed out" from all the summer fare. Set up, take down, set up, take down, and on and on. It can get really tiring. And having to fake a smily face all the time at these shows can really take a toll on your face. I think I might need some wrinkle cream.
 Anyway, they play a part in keeping the survival boat afloat so to speak.
But, with winter approaching, my attention will be more inclined to be focused on online activity and sites that carry my work.
Speaking of which, .. in case you haven't heard,.. you can catch some of my work on the set of NBC's New Season of Parenthood. Tuesdays, at 10 EST. Its in the Braverman's household. From my studio here, to the studios at Universal. Not a bad transition if I say so myself.
Well, that's about it for now. I don't want to tire my delicate painting fingers on this infernal keyboard.
Till later,..
Ta'!