Spent Artichoke Blooms
17 x 22in Acrylic and ink
Chophouse Row
11 × 14in. Acrylic and ink
In The Zone
16 x 20in. Acrylic on canvas
Downtown Seattle
11 x 14in. Acrylic and ink
Outdoor Seating
11 x 14in Mixed Media
Magenta Collage
11 x 14 Acrylic and paper collage
Declan
16 x 20in. Acrylic Painting
MAGA Barf
12 x 9in. Acrylic on Paper
Circular Pond at Volunteer Park
St. James Park, London
This is from a photo I took recently in St. James Park in Central London. I’m really liking using acrylic on watercolor paper. Since we are getting ready to move, I’ve packed away most of my other mediums and turned to acrylic and watercolor paper because the paints dry fast and paintings on paper don’t take up much space. I’m starting to even prefer acrylic paints on paper over gouache.
Grasses
Continuing pushing into abstraction, here is a painting of grasses.
Abstract sketch
I'm continuing to play around with intuitive abstraction.
Japanese Garden, Kew Gardens, London
I am experimenting with starting with loose pastels, then spraying with a fixative before painting over with acrylics. I went in at the end with a little more pastels. This is of the Japanese Gardens at Kew Gardens, London.
Messing around with abstraction
I’ve recently decided to revisit abstraction. I did a lot of it in the 1990’s but haven’t been interested since then. But for some reason I’m suddenly interested again. This is my first experiment. I started with soft pastels and then moved to acrylic paints. I think it turned out ok, and plan to do a lot more. I feel like it may help with freeing my mind and creating my style. Even if not, it’s fun to play.
Hofvijver
This is the Hofvijver (the court pond) in The Hague, Netherlands. I’ve recently gotten some acrylic inks and have been experimenting with them. They are similar to using watercolor, but when they dry they are permanent and can no longer be reactivated with water. This means you can do some interesting layering, and work from both light to dark, and dark to light.
Mr. Lilly
“Mr. Lilly” is an acrylic painting on paper, 11x14 inches. I thought it would look interesting to see what a businessman would look like with flower for a head. Here he is powerful and just walks down the middle of 2nd Avenue.
Charlie Caplin & Edna Purviance
Here I was messing around with my Epson Stylus 3880 printer. First, using a light pad, I painted the colors with acrylic paint. Then I printed the black on top in a process similar to the one Andy Warhol used for his screen printing.