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Still Life with Potted Plant 48 X 30″

Jo Fleming Contemporary Gallery is open! I have five works on view. A few of these will be familiar to patrons of the Unsettled Gallery in Las Cruces. Fish, Cat, Accidental Skull, Black Eyed Susans was painted here in Shady Side last August. It has found a new home in Boston. Thanks to Jo for the opportunity to show in her wonderful gallery.

Burst 36 X 36″

Jo Fleming Contemporary Gallery is open! Hours: Wed – Sat, noon – 5pm.

Address: 68 Maryland Avenue, Annapolis, MD 21401, USA

I am so pleased that I was invited to provide an illustration for the book cover of my Friend Robert B. Ray’s latest book The Structure of Complex Images. Here: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030406301

Robert has asked me to make brush & ink, pictographic images for a few projects over the years. Thanks Robert, for enriching life for me and so many others.

A shout out to Rachel Reese for making the art print-ready.

Aviary, March 22 – 25. In progress? Relative restraint and

muted palette after . . .

Grasping @ Koi, March 20 – 21.

I don’t generally paint in series, (click “series” or see previous post) but these are different times. Above finished(?) yesterday afternoon 4/11/20. There’s a back story to these bird/plant chimeras for some other day.

This painting was completed just before the painting/collage above. The Amaryllis that is blooming in the dining room is making a grand appearance here as well and is morphing into fauna above. The cadmium red is also about the cardinals visiting our feeders in their new spring plumage. Take care.

I am still growing accustomed to the rhythms and accommodations of making art in Shady Side, Maryland. In the winter months I work indoors for the most part, given the short, often cold and rainy days. I repair to the shed and work close-in with reading glasses on easel paintings lit by electricity. Big Gestures are restrained, and I tend to work with smaller brushes. This seems to be a good time for revisiting works that were set aside.

Hello Friends, I worked on a book cover in November. The author asked for a simple calligraphic ideogram befitting the book’s subject. I am attaching a section of it here. I will print the full cover when it is published.

The top image is of my collage painting Chrysalis on the right next to the inspiration (along with some of his other collages of the ’60s,) my Father’s collage of the same name. When I was recently visiting family in Florida, I really wanted to see them together. I sent my collage down to Treasure Island last week where they are both well loved. Can’t wait to see them next trip.

New art supplies are stocked, and I’m looking forward to painting in December/January. Purchased a larger heater yesterday that will make the canning shed/winter studio much cozier. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year all!

New work. In progress? Early August in Shady Side Maryland, mind on Las Cruces.

Work in two new juried exhibits, one online, one coming up in Ocean City, Maryland. Thanks Maryland Federation of Art (MFA.)

Above – This one is in “Stormy Weather” online: http://mdfedart.com/mfaentry/sales/salesgallery.php?event=159

A sod farm on Swamp Circle Road, rainy day in early spring near us and Churchton, MD.

This one will be in the MFA at Ocean City show in a few weeks. It reminds me of Koi swimming in a pond in the fall with a large Sweet Gum leaf (background) upper half.

New to CranePaints? Check out the New Mexico and Maryland galleries.

Heat wave. Butterflies in abundance. Night chorus. Watermelon in the shade of the Pin Oak. Gathering black berries for topping a small scoop of vanilla ice cream. Green-eyed cat crouching beneath the hydrangea.