I have been pretty busy for the past four months or so. Many of the things I had hoped to accomplish last year fell away as kids got sick or I got sick or when new and more important goals cropped up. But despite all the ugly parts of the winter, we all made it through, and it’s been mostly good. I’ve been doing a lot of soft pastel paintings, and have once again opened up my novel and began weeding through it so that I can send it out to agents in the fall. I’ll be posting my art work here, and I will be talking about what I am doing here. I’m hoping to do it weekly, but the website is less important to me than the work, so it’s likely that most of what I write here will be brief.

Here is the pastel painting I started last night. It’s inspired by an Albert Handell painting called “Reflections”, and you can see it in his book Painting the Landscape in Pastel on pg 102.

Here is my painting in its most recent form. Until I finish it, I won’t give it a title.

All the work that I post in my galleries will be for sale from now on. I’ll mention this a few more times going forward, but the information is all on the homepage for my website. All work is priced at 2 dollars per square inch. Commissions are 3 dollars per square inch. That will never include shipping or framing and matting.