nowhere series

Born from my occasional boredom with abstraction--these paintings aren't finished by any means; they are currently just underpaintings. I suppose I will continue to work on them (practice glazing or something) when I feel the need to do something different.

A northwestern Ohio landscape is plainly beautiful - simply land and sky. 

4 x 8.5 in

oil on gessoed paper

7 x 7.25 in

oil on gessoed paper

 5.75 x 7 in
oil on gessoed paper

6.5 x 6.5 in

oil on gessoed paper

6.5 x 4 in

oil on gessoed paper

3.25 x 4 in, 3.25 x 4 in

oil on gessoed paper

i'm bad at this

I've put this off for a while so here are several from the past few months...

untitled

8 x 10 in

mixed media on paper

Orpiment

5.5 x 6.5 in

mixed media on paper

Corundum

8.25 x 5

mixed media on paper

Calcite

3.25 x 6.75 in

mixed media on paper

untitled

6 x 6 in

mixed media on paper

Graphite
5.5 x 4 in
mixed media on paper

Stephanite
5.5 x 5 in
mixed media on paper

[9]
8.75 x 5 in
mixed media on paper

By the Bay
6.75 x 6.75 in
mixed media on paper

[8]

3.75 x 9.75

mixed media on paper

Tourmaline

2.75 x 5.25 in

mixed media on paper

hi

[7]

4.5 x 7 in

mixed media on paper and canvas

eureka!

Earlier I had an urge to paint the remaining glaze I was using onto canvas paper to use for "fraction" pieces at a later date.  Afterward, I realized that making these little paintings is also a good use for the leftover (wasted) paint that I have around the studio (though, I am getting better at portioning).  Moments like these are awesome.

yet again...

[5]

4.5 x 6 in

mixed media on paper

[6]

7.25 x 6 in

mixed media on paper

In other news...
I have been working on two new paintings and I have finished Plateau [Plagioclase Feldspar]...finally, considering I started the underpainting before I moved in 2011, hah.  I will post images when I have access to a camera that isn't my mobile phone ;)  These days, however, I am picking up the pace, spending the majority of my free time working/thinking/planning, and preparing for Downtown Bowling Green's apARTment in March and Toledo's Automatic 419! in April.