The latest

I've been working on this one lately and am close to finished. Since I am not trained in how to paint properly, I just spread paint and experiment. Ignorance is bliss.

another shell

did something clever with this one!

Shells

today's output

Since a painting sold yesterday, and a few other pieces have sold recently, I thought I needed to get to work to replenish my stock. This is an uncropped, unedited photo of what I did today. I rather like it, and have decided to quit making excuses for preferring to do non-representational art.

Art and Love

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others. 

Vincent Van Gogh

Art and Flowers

I am posting this photo not for the clear shot/great iPhone image but to get back in the game here.

This evening I went to a pretty cool art event.
It is hard to explain, but it was about flowers imitating art and art imitating flowers. Get it? I didn't either until I saw for myself. This photo is from a demonstration I attended in which the artist was representing the flower arrangement in a pastel painting. It was just one part of an interesting evening.

As the year ends

After the apple painting, I became involved in other things I enjoy more than art. Music especially. The upbeat and melodic cantata our group practiced and performed at the Lincoln Center was exhilarating. My head became filled with the singing of my part but also the rest, the solos and once in NYC, the strings. That was followed by an outstanding four nights of Christmas at First Baptist, performing on a stage filled with singers giving their best, and a big orchestra that would rival any. I took joy in being near the bassoon and the French horn. Then I had to get in all the other requisite music of the season. It all resulted in music overcoming thoughts of art in my brain! Now I am trying to get back in the art groove. I have to! In 2017 I am president of our art association. So not only must I produce at least a little art, I must also be responsible to about three hundred people.
Leaving what is behind, I (and all of us) go into the new year.