Here we are about to start summer and I am giving you winter. So if you need to stay cool one of the winter scenes might be good for you. We are doing a number of outdoor art festivals this summer. We start with a new show being held in Granville, Ohio at the Bryn Du Mansion.They have a nice website www.granvilleartaffair. My work was used prominently on the advertising cards. Following this show you will find us spending father's day in Worthington, Ohio on the square there are artists on all four corners. If you miss us there you still have a few more chances. Next up, The Lilyfest! They also have a website www.lilyfest.com This show is in the Hocking Hills. If you love beautiful surroundings come to this one. You say you don't like driving in the hills(shame on you), then catch me at the show that I have almost called my second home.. The Salt Fork Arts and Crafts Festival in Cambriidge, Ohio www.saltforkfestival.org . Whew, are you tired yet? During the Lancaster Music Festival www.lanfest.org .

Standing Stone National Bank is where you will find my lovely wife and me during the annual Friday night Art Walk. The bank has live entertainment and of course the prerequisite- free food and drinks. Too busy during that week? If you are up in Northern Ohio.... you can find us in our trusty spot on the green in Chardon. We will return to the comfort of our own hometown for Art on Fair www.artonfair.com This is a Saturday only show. I'm exhausted..... but..... it is now on to the Hyde Park on the Square Art Show in Cincinnati, Ohio. So I really should not be sitting here typing away...........sooooo... I'm off to my studio to paint, paint, paint!

I hope to see you at one or all of these shows.

Good Morning everyone! It looks as if it could be a rainy day in Ohio. I guess I will come in from outside and settle back into the routine of painting. I really enjoy it once I get started. As I grow older it is the self-discipline that I find harder. Working in the yard, listening to the birds and my fountains, feeling the warm breezes on my face all are pleasant distractions. The painting above is a scene from the Hocking Hills. My wife and I backpacked to Old Man's Cave and spent the day exploring. It is so close that we often forget to take time to enjoy the beauty of the area. For an artist each piece of work is a challenge. For me, using green is a big challenge. I hope that you enjoy this trip to Old Man's Cave. I encourage you to visit it and get that sense of scale- man to nature. Enjoy your day.

It's another Moooooooon picture! This is a Polaroid transfer of a slide of one of my original paintings. Then trying to be creative , I embellished it with some painting. I guess we won't be doing any of this again- now that Polaroid film is not available. This will impact some really big name artists. For "capricious ed" it just means that I will have this experience to recall. There are a great many experiences that we have all had that are now mere memories. Treasure them!

Right now you are probably saying, "This guy doesn't know what he wants to do!" My answer is "I don't want to do the same thing each time I sit down to paint." Creating new problems to solve has kept me going for the last 30 years. Writing this blog has forced me to take a closer look at my work. I have discovered that I am, indeed, fascinated with the moon, the stars, and water. Many of my works include these elements- some realistic, others symbolic. Here I have limited my palette and repeated the circular shape throughout the work. The desire to create with just simple shapes dictates the direction of this particular work. It is my hope that I bring to each of you a new way of looking at what surrounds us. Today, let's keep it simple.

Special note to Mary Wegman: Wassily Kandinsky- 1913-"Squares with Concentric Circles"=
inspiration.

In this painting I have tried to take a cold subject matter and warm it by using a golden hue for the sky. There is something very pristine and calming about a winter evening immediately after a snow. When I paint I often transport myself to a place that evokes a feeling within me and try to capture that feeling in the work for everyone to enjoy with me. I have used the stream again as a device to lead your eye through my composition. I have three horizontal line movements that also serve to lift the viewer's eye upward. Enough..... the idea is to have a piece that is calming to you. I hope my painting brings a restful moment to your day.

How many of us have not seen this view of a landscape. Spending many hours in an automobile, driving to visit our children, I entertain myself by mentally painting the images I have seen. There are times that I will encourage those "lucky" people riding with me to look at the colors or contrasts that I see. The white that becomes warm in at sunset. The shadows that stretch across the land. So again I come home to doing landscapes. On my last post I was given the url to a site that would make great large abstract paintings. It, too, is mathematical(thanks Diane). So don't be surprised if you see a piece that incorporates a Mandlebrot set- yikes that sounds so math-like. "Google it.", as the math teacher said. Keep this up and we will all learn some new terms. I hope the sum of your day adds up to be perfect!

Hello from Lancaster, Ohio. I offer to you this morning another landscape. I love patterns. I think that it is the rhythm that they create that affects me mentally. I find them to be calming. I have always loved creating trees. I can still remember my mom telling me I did nice trees. So she probably , through her statement, encouraged me to continue drawing and painting trees. I hope that my view of this landscape, unlike the soft appearance of the last post , encourages you to see things differently. As an adult, I have a friend, who teaches mathematics. She taught me about the Fibonacci series. She showed me the math in nature. You never know where influences can begin. I encourage each of you to share a little of your knowledge with someone.
Your influence is greater than you think. Have a great day.

Good Morning Everyone! It is Monday the day after. Our open house was ,once again, a resounding success- thanks to all of my loyal patrons. The majority of the paintings are now someone else's property. I have regrets about losing them. I have to produce a great many pieces of work and therefore do not get much time to "live" with what I have created. The work above is one of the pieces that now will grace someone else's home. I always am in awe that other people buy my work. Grateful but still in awe. I leave you all today with a great sense of gratitude. Thank you!