Here is my finished painting.  I’m going to call it Searching for the Sun. I’ve included some close up pictures so you can see the details better. (more…)

23" x 29" Prismacolor Painting
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18" x 22" Prismacolor Painting

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I’ve decided to enter an art competition that will go from Feb. 15th through March 28th. My sister in law, Kristina found out about it in the paper and sent me the article.

It’s always fun to enter a competition. Even when I don’t win it’s a kick. I never actually agree with the judges and it’s a lot of fun to go around and decide who I would have picked as a winner. There is so much talent out there. I always have to remind myself that I don’t have to be the best. I just have to be as good as I can be and that’s enough. It’s better to compete with myself, to always try to make the piece that I’m working on better than the last one and then if I fail to not mind and just try again the next time. The day that it becomes too serious is the day that I’ll stop. It has to be fun or what’s the point? We are that we might have joy, not stress and misery. Those things come but why bring them upon ourselves? I paint because I love it. If it sells, it sells. If it wins, it wins and if it doesn’t, at least I enjoyed the ride.

The paintings that you see on this post are the ones that I have decided to enter.

The One Who Remembers

He stands alone in his ancient skin

watching the thunder of change

crack the bones of forgotten ways

that crumble to dust in the wind

He walks alone to a place within

the memory of a forgotten age

and seeks the light of the beauty way

ere it crumbles to dust in the wind

This little girl was painted partly from a photo and partly from my imagination. I like to do that. I like to have a photo for reference to see where shadows should fall and to keep me on track with the basic structure of the way things look but I rarely draw exactly what I see anymore. I like to merge imagination with reality to create a new reality. This girl is her own person in her own world. She has a life and a story of her own.

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Desert girl, can you see me here

through your shining eyes of black,

as there you stand on the dusty earth

with the sun upon your back?

Here I am in my modern world

a raging sea of haste

seeking wisdom through your eyes

your never-ending gaze.

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