Sunday, November 26, 2017

A Visual Roundup of Creative Efforts (2017 Edition)

WHAT OCCUPIED MY EYES 
-- AND IDLE HANDS --
THIS YEAR
(FOR ADDITIONAL IMAGES PLEASE VISIT MY INSTAGRAM FEED)

"CAUTION FALLING ICE AND SNOW" (DECEMBER 5, 2016 -- THOMASTON, MAINE)
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ART & PHOTOGRAPHY

4' x 3' abstract canvas from March 2015 that I updated with changes to the lower right this September
3' x 2' companion piece
"Chef BoyarDior" -- 31" x 8" mixed media collage (September 2017)

"Oats For Women" -- 16" x 8" mixed-media collage of magazine paper, acrylic house paint, raw oatmeal, and Modge Podge (November 2017 with upper detail added June 2019)
The first and only pencil drawing I've made in at least a decade, based on a photograph of my sister's infant boy, who's marvelous.
Eight o'clock on a New England summer night, from what could have easily been swapped for a landscape by LINDEN FREDERICK, currently my favorite modern painter (whose Night Stories I saw in person on my birthday at CMCA).
The peach-haired and dimpled daughter of a close friend from high school.  She wears a ruffled dress I gave her on the day she turned four years old.  As I type this now her family awaits the birth of a sibling.  I didn't take this picture but I admire the repeated mustard colors!
One of my mother's summer lilies, August 8th (as captured by my iPhone 6s with Instagram filter effects).
My nephew Elias in Owls Head two days before he turned sixteen months old (September 4, 2017).  This was his first beach walk on our American shores.
"Cottony" cobwebs angled off a stone perimeter catch late-day sunlight (September 23, 2017)
Light on our streets arranges itself in the shapes I like to use in abstract art (September 29, 2017)
Deceased common startling encountered on a walk to the boatyard (October 2, 2017)
Marbled veins of pomegranate were revealed upon prying off an "eggnog" batch of floor paint (October 19, 2017) -- Can you spot the projects I used it in?
Sundown on October 16, 2017 at quarter-to-six (Thomaston, Maine)
Brown bat encountered on Halloween Day (!) in our back hallway, promptly relocated to my mother's patio planter.
Dollops & smears of paint on clear plastic with shadows beneath (November 2, 2017)
"WRAITH WHARF" (AUGUST 2, 2017 -- THOMASTON, MAINE)
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--- SAME TIME NEXT YEAR?

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