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Double Exposures From My Iphone

By admin | Published March 26, 2013

I seem to be stuck between styles with the medium I have chosen: oil or acrylic, non-representational or reality/fantasy?  I am feeling kind of stuck.  I know inspiration will reappear, but I need some ideas.  I can’t sit around in my studio with no ideas.  So I have been reading some photo books, and trying [...]

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Web Site Issues!

By admin | Published March 23, 2013

Yikes, I updated to the most recent wordpress, and my drop down menu stopped working.  My galleries don’t work either.  I have been trying various fixes for several days.  On the wordpress forum I found other people with my template having the same problems, but their suggestions didn’t help.  I finally figured out how to [...]

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Studio Views

By admin | Published March 21, 2013

I haven’t posted any pics yet of the building that I am in at the workhouse.  Here a a few, one on the hallway and several of my studio.                                                     [...]

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Visit from a baby hawk

By admin | Published March 19, 2013

Spring must really be on the way (even tho it snowed today) because we have been seeing baby birds at the bird feeder.  Yesterday a baby hawk was seen hopping around the pond, causing mass panic among the other birds and the squirrels.  That is, until they figured out the baby hawk hadn’t a clue. [...]

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Lorton workhouse pics

By admin | Published March 16, 2013

I have finally moved into my studio at the Workhouse Arts Center in Lorton, VA.  As you may know, before it’s current incarnation, it was a prison.  There are still a lot of “artifacts” left from those days including guard towers and the old Warden’s house.                 I [...]

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a lightbulb moment: problem solving

By admin | Published February 17, 2013

                I have been looking at this painting (that I thought was finished) for a while now and feeling dissatisfied.  I knew it looked flat and static but I didn’t know why.  Also, while I like the effect I got with this painting as far as color, I [...]

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Happy New Year & reworking a painting

By admin | Published January 2, 2013

I have finally started working on the painting that I had pushed to the back burner because I couldn’t resolve it.  I have been just plain stuck.  I finally went up to the studio a day or two ago to try and get going with this painting.  At the beginning of a painting like this [...]

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Sunset Tonight

By admin | Published December 28, 2012

                Simply beautiful.

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Happy almost new year!

By admin | Published December 27, 2012

Can’t believe it is almost 2013.  I only have a few more weeks before I “retire” from my current job at GMU.  Right now we are on Christmas break until January 3.  I’ve been finishing up a few projects and trying to decide where to go from there.  I’ve done a lot of hand sewing [...]

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Recent Paintings

By admin | Published December 13, 2012

Finished about a month ago.  This one is acrylic, size 36 x 48.  I think this is one of my most successful recent paintings.  It was a painting that just flowed out of me, it was almost effortless.  It was inspired by the music I was listening to at the time: “Intoxicated Spirit” by Nusrat [...]

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