Progression

   I don't paint landscapes or portraits simply because I can't.  Oh, I might be able to if I took a class or studied this art, applied myself, practised!  That is how I learned to weld.  2,000 hours and anybody can do it.  I don't want to paint that way with little details to drive me mad.
   But I like to paint.  I like the clash of colors, effects of shadows.  I like the discovery to painting.

 This is the image, a photograph of a morning sunrise over Puget Sound.

   To me, it is not like a camera with its image being developed.  It is a birth process and I don't know what it will be.

   The photo on the right somehow got embossed into my brain.  This beautiful scene is where I enjoyed my morning coffee on my visit to my cousin in Washington.

   Blue and purple, yellow and orange, reds, all reflected into the water.  Pretty amazing.

So I began with this!

   Somehow these effects, the colors, depth, shadows, expanse, textures, the combination of it all stays with you.

Remember I have lots of oil paint and over 200 brushes from a garage sale?  Well I got them out and these were my first experiments with oil paint.

I would never have believed a sky could look like this if I hadn't seen it myself!

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 Just Playing with Paint

...And then I started playing!  I have one more to show you but somehow these images are screwed up and I have lost the ability to control their size or where they appear!  So, maybe tomorrow?