"Still  Life with a Guitar"  24 x 24" acrylic on canvas

Lots of artists find their "thing" and explore it in every way possible.  Evidently with me with this "Still Life with a Guitar" series.
I like the flat shapes with the enticing lines that move your eyes around like a road map.  Or an Etch-a-Sketch.

It's been a little strange with this corona virus thing, but I've found that for the most part, I've been social-distancing all my life.
Artist's do that.  We want to be alone while we're painting, while we're thinking about painting, but when the piece is finished, the artist suddenly needs his work to be seen by the world. 

I hear that there are artists who never show their work to anyone.  Is that pure creativity?
That zen philosopher ( I'll think of his name the second after I sign off here) says if you're truly creative, you will make your painting, then burn it, without showing it to anyone.

I'm not there yet.

Origins....24 x 24" acrylic on canvas

....."And life goes on within you or without you..."

24 x 24" acrylic on canvas.
I am seriously so happy that I have my painting to occupy my time during these times.
It calms me.  It satisfies me.
In fact, this is probably what I would be doing even if there wasn't a Corona virus.
Be safe. Make things.

"Morning Mist" 24 x 24" acrylic.  

It doesn't take much to move me to a different portfolio of work.  Seeing all my "Origins" paintings hung in one place (CHOCS in Tulsa through March 2020) made me see once again, the magic of interpretative painting.  These paintings are narratives of early man, vaguely aware of the viewer, interacting with nature as a primeval force.

It's a bit more "in your face" in regards to subject matter.  The figure at lower right is actually acutely aware of the viewer, and even seems a little oppositional.  In contrast, the color scheme is calmer than previous "Origins" paintings, but with a slash of cadmium red to remind the viewer that tension does exist in their world and ours.