Stay Home, Make Art – Day 12

I paint with acrylics, which once you put your paint on the palette it is pretty much use it or lose it.  I even use a plastic tray with a tight-fitting lid to slow the paint drying out, but the best I get is usually about 24 hours.  With oil paints you can always loosen up drying paint, but it also would mean my apartment would smell like oil paint all time.  So, I use acrylics.

Last year I started an artist book where the leftover paint is used to cover most of the text on the each and every page.  I am only up to page 30, so this project will take a while.  Here is a preview — today I had some leftover green…

Tropical Palette

Playa Los Muertos, 12”x9”, acrylic on paper

Back home in cool, foggy San Francisco — I am starting to experiment with a more tropical palette after an inspiring little trip down to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.  More to come….

Idahoscapes

A new series of 7 mixed pieces (5”x7” each on wooden panel).  They are of an imagined Idaho landscape from the air.  They are also prototypes for bigger pieces in 2017.