Some ideas are loud and obvious inclinations and some are quiet and soft inpulses and some are spin-offs from other paintings.  This is a spin-off of "Channel 8 News".  I took me awhile to collect my thoughts to create this one and ones in the working.   I don't always have answers to all my ideas immediately all the time.

I signed up for Spaces Monster Drawing Rally again for a second time.  I had even more fun this year than I did last year. The whole event is a great idea. We got there early this year and we couldn't even find a parking spot.  The whole gallery was buzzing with excitement.  If you participate you only have one hour to complete your drawing.  Last year I came in really prepared with an idea of how I wanted to approach my drawing.  This year I didn't plan too much for it and I struggled with it.  This was the finished piece. Its working of it reminds me of old art school days which I think I should take into consideration for new work.

If these houses were real, they would definitly not be stucturally sound.  It's a good thing that they are only paintings because it's only here that they can exist.  Some of the quirky perspective has caused alot of problems in finishing this painting and I think it still needs more work.  However, for right now it is at Harris Stanton Gallery in Cleveland for their Art-tini Auction fundraiser.

The collages continue.  As in alot of my work, I get stuck.  Sometimes any mark will get the wheels turning.  I got stuck on this one and I didn't work on it for a few months atleast.  I lose track of time and maybe it's been a year.  Well anyway with this one I finally got over the hurdle by picking an area that needed to be finished.  Another way, not with this one, but with other work is by thinking about it for awhile and picturing it in my head or photographing the unfinished piece and  viewing it from a distance.