1:52 PM: let me start by offering my gratitude for those of you who are regular visitors to my blog. it means A LOT to me!
well, I started out by stretching 2 more 16x20” linen, quadruple primed canvases fo the final 2 paintings in my anschutz from above series. ok. i’ll start painting on them tomorrow.
then I had the inspiration to go into my newly built storage room, which is already full & overflowing, and look for some landscapes of the sangre de christo mountains I painted some years ago in oil on canvas. I found four, which you see here hanging on top of the gouache on paper paintings I found in my drawer & pinned to the wall a few days ago. my idea is to turn some of them into limited edition prints. they’ll be very reasonably priced, and, if I can find the right person to assist me, will be sold around the valley in places such as the great sand dunes national park. I think people will recognize that these are special, made by a real, internationally acclaimed artist, and will look great framed & hung oil their walls, in addition to reminding them of their visit to our magical valley.
then I found this 2014 16x16” collage on paper amongst the stacks of as yet undocumented work from the past few decades. it leapt out at me as being a prime example of one of those one in a hundred or so works that stand out, and bring together the discoveries made over decades in one stunning piece. this one ain’t goin’ nowhere; it’s OURS! but, once again, as with the oils of the sangres, it could be turned into a limited edition print and become available at a reasonable price.