Glads In Memoriam

acrylic on canvas, 24" x 8"

Got a little too frustrated working on this painting, so I wiped it.  I had taken a photo of it at this stage, as I often do, so that when I look back I can feel really bad about what I did.  Instead, I should have just put it in the time-out room.  Lesson learned.

Chinese Acrobats

acrylic on canvas, 12" x 36"

This started out as a still life of a stalk of yellow gladiolas in a green vase.  I wasn't happy with it, so I took the bottle out of the picture and gave it an abstract background.  As I looked at it, I started to see these little figures like the Chinese acrobats I'd see on the Ed Sullivan Show back in the '60s.  I'll admit, I was in a peculiar mood when I painted this today.

Of Glads and Ghosts

acrylic on canvas, 36" x 12"

This still life was a way to use up the leftover paint on my palette from "Flora."  You can see all the same colors in this one.  For some reason, I saw a halo of light around the bottle, so I painted it.