Staying Sane Gets Harder

Spring is wandering around aimlessly. It has shown up for a day or two and then wanders off again. It will eventually get here...I hope. 

The US continues down the path trodden by Banana Republics and authoritarian regimes, making day to day life a little greyer,, but for some, a nightmare. Between the dismantling of federal government services, the hunting down of immigrants, the deportation of college students, the targeting of the judiciary, the alienation of allies, the mishandling of the Ukraine war, the existential threats leveled at Greenland and Canada...well, the list goes on, but I am ashamed of my country...

Thankfully, I have my retreat into the making of art and my hopes that that repulsive orange blob will be called home by his maker, sooner rather than later.

This is a big painting of the lagoons at Presque Isle that I finished a while back. I'm liking it. 

This is a study of Darah that I really like. The best one of her that I have done.

I've worked with a couple of couples to try my hand at multiple figure compositions. Way harder than you can imagine...or at least way harder than I imagined. But I think these two turned out OK..............

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America Lost

So, the year begins with an absolute idiot as a head of state. I cannot express how repulsive a human being this piece of shit is. It is sad that almost half of the US is so stupid that they voted for him. So things are not likely to get better soon and so the escape is art. To try to create beauty in a country that has embraced ugliness, stupidity, greed and racist nationalism all in the name of patriotism. So, I will be be busy.

The above work is Edinburgh, Scotland

The above piece is a piece called Ad Infinitum. It was in the Tikkanen Competition. Inspired a bit by Jasper Johns and DeMuth.

This is an early study of a  couple of models who were remarkable for a variety of reasons, the biggest being the contrast in skin tones which made for a significant challenge photographing them as well as painting them.

Still playing around with the "Movement" series of paintings.