Dear family and friends,

Here are images of some of my recent paintings. The photos are snapshots, so the color is not exact and the cropping sometimes isn't precise.

Many of these are exercises, sketches, explorations, often on paper. If I end up liking some of them enough, I'll try to do them in higher quality, on canvas or board.

It seems to me that, for the most part, I have been making two kinds of paintings that should be called "pictures" or "designs" (mostly abstract, and more or less decorative). I enjoy these (painting them and looking at them), but i don't think they can be taken as seriously as can the others. I think the dyptich is an example of what might seriously be called a "painting"--more passion and intensity of imagination in it's creation. Also the portraits, but they are still exercises, from which I'm trying to learn how.

In Memoriam (dyptich)
dyptich
heron, oil on canvas 50x38
mts, oil on canvas 50x38

Winter Gifts, oil on canvas 48x38
[at this moment the detail:cups on saucer is not up-to-date]
whole painting
detail:artichoke
detail:cups on saucer
pomegranate
pomegranate
pomegranate

portraits
Erica, a la Madame Matisse, oil on paper 9x12
sketch for first self-portrait, oil on paper 9x12
first s-p finishd, oil on paper 9x12
s-p autumn into winter, oil on paper 11x15
mask, oil on paper 11x15; and larger image of mask
in blues, oil on paper 11x15
feeling a bit under the weather, oil on cardboard 15x29

dots
dotsdouble, oil on paper 24x18
dotsmudgd, oil on paper 4 1/2x10
blackdotleft, oil on paper 4 1/2x9
blackdotright, same as previous but upside down
longer, oil on canvas 22x9
also longer, oil on canvas 22x8

dots as flowers: this will be a series, all oil on board 6x6 (same size as the monks descending mt)
horned vase

urban studies
onblue, oil on paper 8x10
onyellow, oil on paper 8x10
four pulleys, oil on paper 8x10
four pulleys final, oil on canvas 16x20

classical studies
onlightyellow, oil on paper 9x12
blue/yellow/green, oil on paper 8x10
onyellow, oil on paper 9x12
onred, oil on paper 8x10
CS1, larger, oil on paper 22x15
CS2, larger, oil on paper 22x15
CS3, oil on paper 22x15
CS4, oil on paper 22x15

one line poems
two of them, oil on paper, each 24x9

still lifes
monks descending mt, oil on board 6x6
thinner, oil on canvas 12x12
pink, oil on canvas 9x9
rust, oil on canvas 9x9
blue, oil on canvas 9x9
sea, oil on canvas 9x9
redbottles, oil on canvas 12x12
bettle, oil on canvas 16x12
thin red box , oil on canvas 12x12. There'll be a couple of finishing touches on this one.

jazz
swimmers, oil on canvas 67x16
buds, oil on canvas 18x66 (almost exactly same as swimmers)

misc
crow
fall bouquet
it was when the blue boat tipped, oil on canvas 9x9
penguin, oil on board, 12x9

la mia casa

Suggestions or Comments?