New Paintings 2024

“Time Flies Like a Banana, Fruit Flies Like an Arrow” 24″ x 20″ Oil on Canvas. 2025

This spacey painting results from additional development of a painting I did a while ago.  The new inspiration came from photos of the universe in space.  The title always tickled me, and I wanted to add a bit of a frantic ambience.

“If My Soul Still Exists, Be Within” 20″ x 20″ Oil & Enamel on Canvas. 2024

This started as an enamel painting, then I applied vinyl wrap over the paint to create textures before it dried.  Finally, I added lines, shapes, dots and paint splashes. The goal was to create a center motif toward which the whole would be oriented.

“Seaside Town under the White Moon” 30″ x 40″ 2024

I started with an automatic hand drawing, then I extracted some shapes and formed them into a composition which looked like a coastline with mountains.  I scratched the surface with a plastic fork to create wave-like textures.  I painted a moon, then the village and the reflections over the water.

“Sphinx” 9″ x 12″ 2024

This is a painting that I started a while ago.  The idea of the sphinx came from Greek mythology: woman, bird and lion.  I wrote the Greek word Sphinx into the painting.

“O” 9″ x 12″ 2024

I started with an automatic hand drawing, then added paint to fill up the shapes.  To create depth and movement in the painting and bring certain objects forward, I added white horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines, then white circles to create a floating effect.

“Still Life in the Field. AKA Onions” 12″ x 24″ Oil over Acrylic Metallic Paint on Canvas. 2024

My usual method of painting resulted in the creation of many lines on the canvas. The result looked like a field with two objects in front.  This composition then became the goal toward which I worked.  I painted white lines and shapes to create depth between the two objects and the background.