in progress - darker photo

Outer Sanctum (another shot)

She Says Good Morning

Way Up North

Leftover Landscape

From 3 or 4 years ago (when I had a proper studio)

Some thoughts that have occurred to me while painting:

1. I almost always get something done when I go to the studio.
2. When I’m painting I don’t consciously think about influences.
3. I always listen to music while I paint and it probably influences what I do.
4. Some of the best stuff happens quickly and sometimes the first gestural take is all that it should be, and it’s time to stop. Other times I “work it.”
5. I know I’ve done something good when I don’t care what anyone else might think.

laissez-faire aesthetics

Per Jed Perl - at least Pop Art and "Bad" Painting of a while back were "self-consciously ironic" and the artists

"...were mocking something. They had a target. This is what has now changed. Laissez-faire aesthetics now makes a mockery of nothing. Even irony is too much of an idea." 

Well said.

backsliding

Autumn Exotics: a Stop Along the Way

see for yourself