Detail from ‘Thorned offering ’. Oil on panel 36in...

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Making progress ‘Thorned offering ’. Oil on...

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TODAY is the opening ‘yesterday and the day after...

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The night before the opening and I have a hot date with a glass...

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Tomorrow is the opening ‘yesterday and the day after...

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Only 2 days till the opening ‘yesterday and the day after...

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Only 3 days till the opening ‘yesterday and the day after...

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Good morning Only 4 days till the opening of ‘yesterday...

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Detail from ‘shields’. A new painting in my show...

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Working on a new painting for my up coming show ‘Thorned...

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Finished varnishing ’ the decision’ a new painting...

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Work in progress . A new painting for my show on the 22nd of...

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Yesterday and the day after that. A collection of recent...

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Yesterday and the day after that. October 22. 6:30 to 8....

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Friday night and I have another hot date with a glass of wine...

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It’s only a month away! http://ift.tt/2dcE8gF

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This an older painting and probably one of my smallest...

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Work in progress . A new painting for my show on the 22nd of...

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A bit more of ‘well past’ a new painting I’m...

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‘well past’ and s a new painting I’m pushing...

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Gus came to the studio for a visit http://ift.tt/2c6To26

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Nearly there. A couple more hours and done ’...

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Work in progress. ‘The Shaping’. Oil on panel 36in...

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Making progress. Detail ’ Thursday’s sisters’...

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Happy Birthday Chuck Close

“The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who'll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you're sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that's almost never the case.”

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Detail Work in progress. ‘The Shaping’. Oil on...

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Work in progress. ‘The Shaping’. Oil on panel 36in...

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Finished! ‘Another offering ’. Oil on panel 36in...

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Getting there. Still some incomplete areas. ‘Another...

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Making progress ’ Thursday’s sisters’ Oil on...

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That kind of morning Oil on panel 48 in(121.92) X 48 in...

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Work in progress. Stacked youth. Oil on panel 36in (91.44cm) x...

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The OSA show. ‘past tense’ detail Oil on panel 36in...

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Not quite finished but close. That kind of morning Oil on panel...

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Made some good progress on the still unnamed painting. Oil on...

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Almost complete ‘past tense’ detail Oil on...

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The background will still take time to finish up but I am happy...

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I usually have a few paintings on the go however I realized...

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Spending Sunday painting. A perfect day ’ Thursday’s...

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Taking a coffee break while the sun is directly on my easel....

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Working title ’ Thursday’s sisters’ detail Oil...

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It’s getting there. Still many hours left but now...

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As usual the name finally came to me. This painting will be...

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They arrived! ‘Drawing Quiet’ is small book about 8...

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What a great day! Paint, good progress , a talk with my dad and...

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Thanks to my friend Noah, I am getting reacquainted with my...

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I am loving working on rust and glass. Soon I will be painting a...

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