This oil painting was , for me, an explosion of a new freedom I found after finally getting a home nearly 40 years ago, a room with a sink and a bed and a window. I hadn't painted for years, and never without extreme self-consciousness. But years of homelessness changed me and my appreciation of "art". That freedom eludes me these days, that 'ignorant' notion that I can do whatever comes to me. I'd love to get it back. Surely it's in us all. It may be better to paint to be satisfied than to paint to satisfy...
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Colored pencil on bristol board.
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Pencil drawing of young kids
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Oil on masonite
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Lady on island; oil paint
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Pen and Ink on construction paper with some colored pencil.
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Waterfront scene; imagination, oils
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Color improvisation of a B+W photo, oils. Subject was a successful Canadian landscape painter.
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Oil on matt board, lady
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8" x 10" oil on masonite improv
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Improvised pen and ink drawing; practice with quill tip pen; 8 1/2 " x 11".
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Pencil sketch
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Oils on back of masonite; Bette Davis and Leonard Cohen
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Figure drawing, pencil
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My wife had asked me to do a picture reacting to all of the media coverage on 9-11. I was feeling this way, too, so I did. Acrylic on cardboard.