rework candlestick

Boris Putterman said that as long as you are moving forward keep working. If it feels like you are moving sideways, quit...move on to something else. I think I am done with this...perhaps a painting.

Brass candlestick and silk rope tie-back

12" x 16" pastel on suede board
I have drawn this silk rope about 5 times...this is the closest I have come to getting it yet.
I used to doodle convolutions of the brain...(least that's what they looked like to me...repetitious curves that with tight changes could change directions and give a sense of volume. I haven't fixed this drawing, but I may so i can keep working it. The suede board gives an interesting feel to the charcoal under-drawing....but it doesn't hold as much pastel as regular charcoal paper does.

Apple with Napkin Still-life

Pastel 24" x 18" Still life on wooden surface.
This is probably my first venture into examining textures.

Horse Skull

pastel on suede board 18" 12"
I am not wonderfully happy with this but it is good to be using pastels again.

With more work:

Maddy's Tea Pot

oil on canvas board  12" x 9"
Maddy's teapot and some odds and ends around the studio. Painting the colander was fun.

Irises in Mark's Graden

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Oil on canvas  9" x 12"
I stood in Mark's driveway and painted last spring. Neighbors, children in tow, paused to ask about the image and marvel that it "looked real" Traffic slowed, which was kind of fun. Objective art is curious...just to what degree will we accept something as real? One would think that with all the access to fool proof photography people have, their definition of "real" would be more sophisticated...or at the very least something approaching that which is created with a mechanical lens.  I think if more people saw painters painting, they too would be able to achieve some degree of likeness.

Original Autumnal Still Life painting framed and ready to hang for holidays

Acrylic on canvas 12" x 9" framed.
I am taking my first stab at e-bay. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.