Fall paintings (stripes, stackings and new color realizations/understanding)

Some recent paintings from this fall...somehow amidst its craziness, paintings were made!!!!

Half-eaten line, cobbled together

I made some long black lines on paper awhile back--they've been hanging on the wall as my original intents for them changed and I had no need for them yet.  But the other day, I took them down and discovered one of them had been eaten--from the bottom.  I saw no trace of the insect, save some iridescent trails along the back of the paper.  I know ultimately this is not a good thing at all from a practical paper-filled studio standpoint, but of course I love the half-eaten line.

In the studio...

The very beginnings of a wall collage.

I love Hilma af Klint!

Painting/color/shape

Red and red (painting)

In an attempt to keep Benny the dog from eating the wings off of Alexander's toy planes while I was outside in my studio, I devised an elaborate pillow/blanket covering scenario--which in the end was more interesting to me as an oblique reference to painting being a blanket/film over a substrate/support.

Source wall

Order to disorder

Negative Space

From Sigrid Sandstrom's artist statment regarding the literal activity of laying on layers of paint:

The cumulative activity of adding layer-upon-layer, is the evidential aftermath of mental engagement which in turn insinuates and provokes the next painterly response.

Her website.