Fresh Gateway

Fresh Gateway
Watercolor, 8 x 8"
Matted and backed to 11 x 14
$150
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Here is a place keeper for gazing while I'm traveling.

This is the latest in one of my favorite series that emerged with Float, a painting I did not post here but which can be seen (barely) framed for a show last year. That was followed by The Crying Clouds and continued with what I think I'll call Huge Cumulus.

Now that I've gone back through to categorize these, I see that there are not nearly as many as I thought. My urge was to keep doing these sorts of things over and over but did not want to continue to repeat myself. That I had done more, apparently, was just my imagination (running away with me). Maybe I'll throw myself into these when I get back.

If you'd like to stick around or have posts to visit while I'm away, you're welcome over at My Great Day to see posts on the materials I use. If you like those, you can read posts on Artists, my Influences and all sorts of other things (see My Great Day Sidebar).

In yesterday's post, I came forth about my dilemma on how to continue or better integrate my blogging output. Feel free to comment with suggestions (if you have any) after perusing my posts while I'm away.

Enjoy yourselves!

Flashpoint

Flashpoint
Watercolor, 4 x 6"
Matted and backed to 8 x 10
$85
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At one time, I was posting daily to 4 blogs with weekly posts to a fifth, plus writing articles for my squidoo lens. I enjoyed every bit of it (though I did stay up way too late some nights). As life and circumstances have changed, and some of my blogs have reached their natural conclusions, I've been thinking about how to continue my blogging life. My thinking has not resulted in any satisfactory solution so I've just slowed down.

At the start of my blogging, a couple of years ago, I thought it was neater to keep my sketches and drawings in one place, paintings in another, and writings on art and life in yet a third (a file clerk's approach). Now I am wanting to integrate to one blog but am still unclear whether Landscape into Art is an appropriate blog theme. I'm also wondering (as I have from time to time) whether I am restricting my work by the theme that originally was intended as a title for a series of paintings.

I'll have time to wonder more on this as I travel about Southern California over the next few weeks teaching workshops and visiting. I want to (and have been wanting to) change my blog presence and experience. After my travel break, you may begin to see changes....

(may being the operative word...)