River

oil on stitched canvas
18 x 21"

before & after

Well, I am getting to the final touches on these, so the changes from "before" to "after" are quite minimal...

A Street Divided






Whatever Leads To Joy






Bridges to Light






These are still in the middle stages, I think:




they went through several incarnations before I split them up into two separate paintings...
neither of which are quite finished yet - this is how they look now:

The Object Of Play



Building Blocks

What I Did Today

Well, ok, I didn't do all this today.
Most of these paintings have been in progress for quite some time now...

That said - I did work on them all today and some have changed quite a bit since this morning. I am getting the feeling they are going to look pretty good when they are finished! That'll probably take a couple more weeks though.

Here are some before & after images.


This one has no title yet:


it can go either way...



...but I like it this way, it just feels more peaceful with some space in the middle rather than having the city all crowded together.


Lowering:



this one may be finished, maybe.... or very very very close....



The Gamble:



Well it was a losing gamble, putting those portrait drawings in there with my black sharpie marker... maybe the paint will cover them, though I suspect they will continue to ghost through no matter what I do.


Whatever Leads To Joy:






A Street Divided:





Oh, how nice to be finally at the point where they are starting to be close to finished! I have been going through periods of discouragement and just slogging along in the studio, adding layers and more layers, wondering where it's all going -
It always seems like things go on forever with no discernable result, and then suddenly...!

the hurdle has been put behind me
*sigh*

:)

some final finishing touches...

"Pattern Recognition"
oil on stitched canvas
66 x 66"


It went from here:


To here:


Can you notice the changes?
They are relatively minor.

The lighting is always difficult for this painting - I think because it is so big, and because I am not really a great photographer nor am I using a really great camera, and because it is a painting studio first and foremost, and not really properly lighted for photography, &c.

Oh, excuses!
Really it's my artist ego, insisting everyone should know that this painting looks much better in real life than it ever could here on my blog!
:)

And here is a crop to show how the stitching looks:

velocity

this


now looks like this:


gonna try doing it all up in chromatic greys, keeping the bright centre areas...

have been working almost full-time for the last several weeks & feeling like I'm going crazy, not enough time to do everything that needs to be done.
getting a bit of painting in nonetheless.

a couple of singles & a triptych
all still in progess...





on march 13 I made a post which included this picture:



this is what they look like now:


slowly, slowly but surely...