I'm rummaging through sketches I have done in all sorts of places. Coffee shops, on a rock near the lake, in the car, in my studio, on location in some point of interest, wherever. These I will convert into works, .. paintings, impressionist painting, expressionist paintings, abstracts, seascapes, landscapes, animals, and colorful acrylic compositions. Its what I do. I'm not a method painter. I didn't go to the school of "lets learn how to make a painting." I went to art school. That's not the same. Nobody ever told me how to make a painting. They opened my eyes to learn how to see, to absorb life, to purge that onto the canvas with honesty. I still remember some of the students in art class that were frustrated because the instructors were not teaching them how to make mountains, or trees, or horses. They instead were talking color, movement, energy, line, impression, experimentation. This really separated the art students from the illustration segment. Some left the class and went on to become the Norman Rockwell of their time, and others just gave up. But the ones who wanted to be artists, kept on with the pursuit of just working at the canvas, for the sole reason of the creation of something new, something unseen before, and revealing. I'm really glad and thankful, no one taught me "how" to paint.

Stylish Home

I have bee included in the Stylish Home Etsy finds page, under the category of painting this week. Please feel free to take a look at the painting that was chosen and let me know how you like it.

www.stylishhome.com/Community/StylishHome-Current/Paintings-StylishHomes-Week...

I especially like the spontaneity of this one and the way the warm light is bouncing off of the structures.

Its not easy being simple.

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Island Light

8x10

acrylic on canvas

As of late, I've been experimenting painting on heavy weight paper. I like the unpretentious feel it has, and the fact that I can store them more readily and easily than stretched canvases. I hope to do more on this surface and see where it takes me.

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Seacoast landscape

11 x 15

acrylic on canvas

available on: http://www.etsy.com/listing/66937183/expressive-seacoast-painting-with-boat

As of late I have been experimenting with painting on heavyweight paper. It has a different feel to it, and I am beginning to like it. I also like panels and canvas boards, when I'm not using stretched canvas. The thing that I do like about paper, is the storage space that it offers me to file them away. Eventually, stretched canvas can run you out of the studio, if you try storing too much of it.

With the flatter surfaced panels and papers, its not a problem storing large numbers of works in a limited amount of space.

For now, though, I move around from surface to surface as I need to. Seems like I just enjoy the different feels each one has.

Seaside shack in a fishing cove

11x14"

acrylic on canvas

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Somewhere in the mid coast region of Maine is a small cove with this little shack that sells crafts and paintings.

A pleasant salty little place that deserved to be painted.

Seacoast Village

9x12

acrylic on paper

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About this painting:
From a snapshot I took up in the Midcoast area of Maine, along Boothbay Harbor. I feel strongly that this painting is the direction I want to go, as I feel it has broken through some barriers that have been obstacles for me, one of them being tied to the conformity of representational brushwork techniques. This painting, for at least this one attempt, has crossed that line. I feel its one of my strongest paintings I have completed in this new year.