Here's a short video featuring some of the "Red and Black" mixed-media watercolors that I created over the years.
Hope you like it.  If you don't, I don't wanna hear it.
You can like it on YouTube, and follow my channel if you do.  Maybe I can make some more videos.
​mj

Corona Virus Quarantine projects.....

​Being a PC guy...I'm trying to learn to make videos using IMovie on my phone.
Unfortunately, an IPhone is absolutely the smallest and worst thing ever for viewing and editing video clips.

Having exactly 4 followers on  my YouTube channel, I'm not sure it is worth it to invest in an apple IMac, although they are very pretty.

I tried making slide-show videos with still photos, but I inevitably get immersed in painting and forget to take still photos. 
It's like here I am doing the background, here I am starting to add some color, and oops dammit, here I am signing my name to the finished painting.
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Hey!  You can go to my YouTube Channel and follow me!  Maybe I'll get enough followers that I will buy a real Mac! 
Maybe......
You can do it here.......https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQCOXEw7csgDzCFd0_OtZIA

QUARANTINE PORTRAIT #4
24 x 24" acrylic on canvas
I just wanted to juxtapose the pretty pink face mask with the anger and fear in my eyes.  
i started to put flowers on the mask, but, hey, less is more, right?
Simple Horror.
Once again, thank you to Dylan Spaulding for the great headshot for source material.

Commentary later....

"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.

"Origins"  an inexpensive exhibit at CHOC...."Coffee House on Cherry Street" in March 2020.

Ok...Hey. 
I'm working on a new collection of 12 x 12" acrylic paintings I'm calling "Origins".
Although it appears to be totally random, it's not.  I have been developing paintings dealing with "origins" subject matter for several years.

All the symbolism is in your head.  
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Is it shamanistic? Is it hunting magic?  Is it a celebration of life?  Are men on an equal level with the animals or just the opposite?  Or is just good colors and patterns applied in stream of thought consciousness?  

I don't know.  You don't either.