Totally Random Thoughts About New Work

I don't have finished work to offer this month. It's summer, I have done some traveling, and I have been taking a month-long online painting workshop from a terrific local painter and instructor, Anne Blair Brown. Those are my excuses! (Visualize here cringy the-dog-ate-my-homework smile.) I have been working on a thing, though, that I think is important and that needs more time. The thing is this: I often happen upon scenes that touch me with their beauty, but that I know immediately will be difficult for me to convey in a painting with the poignancy that I feel. Usually they are settings of quiet beauty. One [...]