This painting marks a turning point in my paintings.  It's a direction that I want to continue in. I've always been interested in collage and to transfer it into painting opens up a whole new arena for me.  I have been having alot of ideas lately and the collage will let me play with and develope these ideas in the paintings.

Vermilion Lighthouse

This is Vermilion Lighthouse on Lake Erie.  It's part of a series of work I am doing for The Lake Erie Nature and Science Center Fundraiser "The Bake near The Lake" to raise money for the center and its programs.  This year the event will be held on September 7th, 2013.

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Click on the above link for an article and contest for a postmark I designed for Hinckley Township.

"House on Sunny Day"

The idea for this painting originally came from Alfred Stieglitz's photograph "Gable and Apples" 1922.  I wanted to convey the idea of a rooftop of a house with apples in front as in the photograph, however the placement of the my house threw me off and I ended up using a canopy of leaves.   Now that I see them next to each other my painting looks completely different than the photograph.

                                          "Gable and Apples" Alfred Stieglitz 1922

"Gateway"

I wanted to reduce the house to its most basic shape and see what happens when all other information around the house is reduced too.

 

This painting is enlarged from a collage.  The house is reduced to and indication of a house, mainly recognizable by the roofline.  Some information is included in the background with some leaves.  The red crops the house so that it is partially obstructed.