Looking Beyond and Spiderman's Kiss

Two new paintings.

"Trouble" - I do not have much of a story on this painting. Initially it was a study in warm to hot colors. It evolved and changed as it progressed and ended with shades of some cool colors. Even now, a possibility exists that it will be modified.

"Spiderman's Kiss" 7/2009
34" X 48"
Oil on Canvas

"Looking Beyond" - is another reinterpretation of a painting by John Karl Claes. Claes' painting is of a scene from a river valley in California. "Looking Beyond" has three sections with different dominate colors. "Looking Beyond" 5/2009
24" X 24"
Oil on Panel

Above

It's Above.
What is Above?
The title of the painting.

Why is it called Above?
Because that is what it is.

You are either looking at what is above or looking at whatever from above.

The painting is simple but the effect is powerful. Like the saying, half full or half empty, we are either above our circumstances or below them looking at what is above. What is above is hope, if it can be reached. What is above is where we are over the struggle of what we are above.

Look at it either way.

Above - 6/2009
30" X 30"
Oil on Canvas

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