Life is an odyssey to be explored...... canvas is my ship..... oils my crew... brushes guide me toward unknown lands..... serene, dangerous, exhilarating...I travel with purpose toward Ithaka; one painting at a time

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Red Boat #13

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Oil on hardboard

46 x 60 cm

Sea, sand and sky melt together in eternal, ever changing forms. It is said that the only certainty in life is change.... yet all change, in one way or another, is linked. We too, as boats of various shapes and color... some beached, others rocking with the movement of the sea... are affected by the waves and currents of the ocean, the winds and clouds of the sky and, on a subtler level, the delicate shifting of the sands. And through it all we are somehow, incredibly, all pieces fitting together in the holographic wholeness of life's changes....

Be well......

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Red Boat #12 WIP

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Oil on Canvas

90 x 110 cm

I am still inspired by the red boat and at the moment I have 5 paintings, medium to large in size, on various easels in my studio drying and waiting for their next layer...

This one is nearly finished. I think the colors work well together and are well chosen for the mood I wanted to give... or rather the mood that took over me as I was painting this.

Be well.....