Right now I’m working on a painting of a passageway in a castle. I’m not used to showing paintings in progress, and I’ll probably delete this post before long. Showing a painting in progress reminds me of going out in my pajamas. This piece is 30×40, acrylic. It looks slightly dark on my monitor, but I’ve seen plenty of monitors, especially in schools, in which my images look light. BUT, they do look great in reproductions, so that’s what matters.
Okay, here is the image. Remember, it is not finished. Feel free to tell me what you think.
A few weeks ago, we went to Arches National Park. I believe I’d go back now if I could. It’s like being on another planet, especially to someone from Louisiana. There is absolutely nothing like seeing it for yourself. Pictures and movies don’t do it justice.
I painted a part of Park Avenue, which is one of the first stops on the road through the park. All over the park, I could see faces, people, monsters, castles, and other things. It was impossible for me to see plain rocks. My mind kept putting life to these giant, colossal structures.
This painting is acrylic. I could not help but put my impressions into the painting. As always, clicking on the picture takes you to Lenora.Imagekind.com, where prints are available.
Below is a detail.
Cows tend to hang out together. They roam the pasture together, they eat together, and sometimes they seem to be gossiping together. Hence the name of this older work: Gossip Session. This is a scene from a Louisiana field. A reproduction is available at Lenora.Imagekind.com.
This is acrylic on stretched canvas, 14×11 inches. The larger flower is really more magenta in “person.” I’m not feeling too well right now, so this will be short. I’m trying to throw off the last gasps of a bout of flu that doesn’t want to let go.
A copy of this can be had at Lenora.Imagekind.com. It sizes up quite nicely also, for a larger copy.
It’s abstract, or, to be more accurate, it’s non-objective.
Okay, here’s a detail or two. Click to see them better:
I feel I want to break loose and paint something else, but I’m not quite sure what it will be. It’s just slightly frustrating.
This 30×24 inch acrylic painting was inspired by my all too few trips to the Southwest. Reproductions of this piece are available at Lenora.ImageKind.com.
I love those big skies, old, and sometimes ancient, structures, the landscapes, and the list goes on. Of course, this Louisianian has to devourer her weight in water when traveling in the Southwest. The air seems to just extract the moisture from the body. Still, I love it out there.
I have just finished this piece. It was done in watercolor on stretched canvas. It is abstraction and surrealism rolled into one. The size is 16×20. 
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Oh, the altered book is on the back burner. I’ll have to take some pictures of what I’ve done so far.
I’ve been wanting to try altering a book, so I bought a nice, hard-back book from one of those one-dollar stores for… well, a dollar. It’s in great physical shape and it states inside that it is made from acid-free paper. To keep the book from fanning out too much, I needed to tear out some of the pages, especially since the book has well over 300 pages.
As I was getting ready to tear, I felt extreme hesitance and reluctance to tear those pages. My stern elementary teachers came to mind. So, I had to just make myself tear that book up. So, as I was tearing, I said, “See that, Mrs. Jackson? Take that, Miss Dowell.” (Mrs. Jackson and Miss Dowell were actually sisters.) Once in the second grade, I was reprimanded–and rightly so–by Mrs. Tarbox for mistreating a page in the state-owned textbook. So last night, I said, “See that, Mrs. Tarbox?” and mistreated the page before tearing it out.
Now that I’ve torn up the book, I am free to make it into a marvelous art form. When I finish, I’ll post it here. But–for now, I’ll put up another piece of art so that readers may have something to actually see. A copy of this painting of beautiful orange flowers is available at
Lenora.Imagekind.com.
