This was a gift for Christmas 2013.

This painting is in the Holiday Show at Harris Stanton Gallery in Akron Ohio.  I started painting it a while back and it sat in storage for a long time because I didn't know how to finish it.  When I included it in my portfolio unfinished, the gallery picked this one for the holiday show and then I was forced to finish it.  As I was walking it out the door I noticed more changes I would like to make it.  ?

"Channel 8 News with Flamingos" is also at Harris Stanton Gallery holiday show.  This painting was also in storage for a while.  Usually I put paintings away when I don't know what to do with them. When I pulled it out of storage I had it sitting on a table and I threw the flamingo cutouts across the table and they landed on this painting and I knew I had completed the painting/collage.  It was hard for me to part with this piece.

This painting is postcard size donated to a fundraiser in NYC for Visual Aids, an organization that  supports artists in the fight against Aids.