The most recent battle with my art is lack of time.  I am frustrated pretty badly because I am overwhelmed with ideas to place on paper or canvas.  I can't possibly paint all of them so I transfer my ideas into notes and sketchbooks to clear my head so that I can get to them at a later time and to make room for new ideas.  This painting is at Harris Stanton Gallery for the Art-ini Auction through Sep. 23 with a vodka tasting closing reception

The horse farm:  The shadows create large minimal shapes.  It loses itself as a photograph and becomes abstract.

What I hoped to achieve was an impression of Cleveland incorporating the houses which inspired this picture.  The painting is not impressionism in the classical use of the term, but the simplification and idealization of the buildings and landscape and the indication of detail does not give a naturalistic view but an indication of what we see.

 

Originally I was going to have only one cube at an angle and attached to a base with a dowl.  So I started with one wooden cube.  With time constraints I realized that  attaching the cube would pose a bit of a dilemma.  As the idea stewed I realized that stacking the cubes would solve the dilemma of  a base and create a repetition in the piece so I added more cubes and developed the idea with 3 cubes.

This piece went to the 2016 Arts Alive Out of the Box Auction at Summit Artspace in Akron.

I have a wall of work up at Acme #1 in the produce section.  It went up for the new grand re-opening of Acme #1.  Thank you Steve and Sophie Albrecht from Acme for choosing my work to be displayed and Thank you Meg from Harris Stanton Gallery for promoting my work.  The wall looks fantastic.  The colors of the produce and the colors of the paintings play off of one another and create a really exciting environment.