Hello It has been awhile.

Hi all .... well I know its been two months since I posted last,, time just flys.....

Life has been good the last while. I was down with increadably bad chest cold from mid may till mid june just did not want to go away.

well to the art world.... I did not get in to the jurried show at the library....

But did get a number of encouraging crits from judges and others so am encouraged... it was a very good show and the piece i did get finished will be submitted to the fall show along with

face in the style of picasso fall 2009 watercolor

another piece that is about 60% finished...currently working on a study of a tree

in our backyard..... not so much the tree but the spaces created in the overlapping of the branches this is under layed with a vertical grid which is defined where two colors meet to make a differeing color ie a line of yellow beside one of red where thy combine orange..... woring on a 16 X20 peice of water color paper in oil for the study ... finished work will be on canvis in oil

about 30 X40 inches....

Well I am on holidays now and am going up to bark lake. near Madawaska, to do some hiking and painting this comming week for 6 days. Im going to base camp and just do day trips all a group of seven style. going thursday.