Mural

I've always wanted to do a mural. So I think I will. I started putting some sky on the wall in my stairway.

Advent

I expected all those starry spikes and glowing nebulae and spinning galaxies to put up more of a fight, but they really jumped to, like they were meant to be. You get a lucky break sometime. I nearly went back and tried to add yellow ocher to some parts of the sky, but the sky didn't want it. So I backed off.

Advent

The start of my painting, Advent. I am relying on blue-purplish blue and rose, as those are the colors of Advent, usually.

Advent

I am working on sketches for my painting "Advent". I've decided to work on some paintings inspired by my reading of The Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine. It's a chronicle of the lives and miracles of the saints. I hope it will be broadly spiritual and meditative and help me work on my problem of conveying complex things more simply. As you can see, I started out with a very crowded and busy composition, throwing in everything I could find about Advent. Then I pared it down to a few elements that I felt were the most important. The Advent Calendars we are all familiar with, with the little doors that open. The idea of "beginning" in astronomical terms, novas, supernovas, stars colliding, imploding, and galaxies forming. I also wanted to retain the traditional Advent wreath with four candles, which in the end is pared down to just the four candles.

Wash Line

Another psychological portrait that seemed to spring to mind rather naturally after the last painting I did of a lone child on a swing. The working title of this is Wash Line. These are the rough bones of it.

Thunderstorm

Just some pictures of an amazing amount of lightning that came with a recent summer storm. The last picture is towards the front of yard and street. The moon is still peeking through.

Amazing Sunset

I took these out our back window. Isn't it a beautiful sky?