Palettes

Well, more of life getting in the way. I’ve got a couple of torn CV boots on my car that I need to repair plus a few other non-auto related things to do. It’s going to be a while before I get to work on and post an update to the milk bottles painting. Well, that's unless the weather is bad because I don’t have a garage to work on my car in. In the meantime I’m going to post a small glimpse of my studio space with a photo of two of my small palettes. I don’t use the wooden palette anymore. I do like and use the ceramic tile for working on smaller paintings because it’s easy to scrape off. I have a large piece of plate glass I've used as a palette since college in the 80's. I use that palette when I work on larger paintings. I’ll post a photo of it some other time.

Holidays

Well, I'm on a break until 2009. The holidays are just too demanding this year for me to get any painting done. I hope to make a lot more paintings in 2009 and post much more often to this blog. Anyway, whoever does find and read this blog I wish you a safe, happy, and peaceful holiday season no matter what you celebrate, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, something I'm not aware of, or even if you don't celebrate any particular holiday. All the best and happy new year too. See you in 2009.

New works

I have not posted in a while. I do have some new oil paintings started. One is almost complete. I also have to wait for them to dry before I can scan and post them. The cold weather has them drying much slower. The last two weekends I was able to get out and shoot some pictures of the fall colors. I have to go through them and decide which ones are good reference material for some new paintings. I use a variety of working methods and sometimes that includes photo reference.