Lots of sketchbook drawing, planning for paintings

How my latest painting is looking, a detail of it I love, and my palette. I find myself looking more for certain textures and qualities of light than for actual physical "things" represented in my work, though the challenge to make those things come alive is still nice.

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A painting in progress means many many versions of the same scene so I can literally never go 5 minutes without looking at it from slightly different angles.

Germans know...

Sketching in varied light, looking for paintings everywhere.

A recent painting of mine. I passed rolling hills on a road trip and couldn't get them out of my mind.

Roadside Attraction
11x14"
Oil on panel

Some lovely excerpts from "Master of Allusion: The Art of Poetic Reference" by Elisa Gabbert.

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I don't know why it took this long, but this was the tweet that made me finally delete my Twitter account