Just Sketchin' - Remembering Getting Outdoors

Taking a short break to play around with the paints. I really wanted more time, but, it’s my busy season... so at least I got to play around a bit. 

A Moment of Zen

A fleeting moment snapped on a walk... and yet winter and happiness seem captured here, ready to be recalled when the sky become dreary and grey again. 

Winter Ocean

I haven't really worked at photos for a little while- and was surprised that few shots from this day were worth any effort in the fuzzy winter light. It was still fun to get out, go for a drive and see the ocean grey-green and cold. 

Just Sketchin' - Walking in Grassland

I've avoided other artists work as inspiration for my own, but changed it up recently. It's been like a self-directed course- observing how color and light are handled by another artist. It's quite fun, and I'm glad I switched it up. 

Winter Ruminations And the New Year

The snow on my windshield streaks at a sharp angle, strike, down, left. Then stroked away by the wipers and we begin fresh. 

Chunks of tiny white squares splat splat splat. The action is like any water I've every watched... the waves in the ocean - in and out, in and out. A pattern with ebbs and flows and crashes and spray all different. Or the flow of a crick around a stone in the mountains. A masterpiece of balanced disorder.  This is the reflection of our past year for me. As I abhor feeling special, my guess is that this is the experience of our species over the last millennia. 

Welcome to the new year with everything different and all things the same - in the comfort that I, you and we are part of this endless tide of change. 

A Long Winter's Night

Holiday silver and gold.

This is what I love the most, celebrating the moments that pass by, fleeting and lovely. Moments that build out our lives if we pay attention. 

Evening Falls; Winter on the Coast