Simplicity

"Blue patterned vase" 15" x 22"

Simple shapes, pure color and an unobtrusive background.

Doesn't usually happen in my paintings...ha ha! I like

negative spaces and filling those up with lots of color. It's good to

stray from the norm every once in a while. I recently

bought some pears and oranges, maybe some inspiration for

a new painting? Actually one pear turned brown within the

day, but remained rock-hard..a lemon perhaps in the pear world?

I just got some new colors and am thinking of overhauling my

palette..start clean and fresh, dig the old, crusty, tired and overworked

dollops of pigment out of my trusty large white palette, rinse it all

under the sink and voila...renewed energy, which hopefully will

reflect itself in some new work!