In the studio

Uly

It's been a busy, hot spring, with some heartbreak involved. We lost our dog Molly about 6 weeks ago, after 15 years as the anchor in our dog world.

We had decided to wait til fall to look for a new buddy, but Finn was showing too many signs of loneliness.



So we went looking, and found Uly (Ulysses).


110 lbs. of cure for loneliness.




We're all happy with the addition.


Well, almost all of us.

Windshield shot.....

in Oklahoma this spring.

Another from the Susquehanna River series

Island in Late Afternoon. 40 x 32 inches, oil on linen.

Another from the series of the Susquehanna, a river I travel along so often. The energetic surface quality of the painting reflect a lot of what I learned working on the really large canvases  for the Artifact show. I aim to have the expressionist feel of the paint convey the texture of the environment.

I've begun work on a series of the Deschutes River, on the other side of the country in my home state of Oregon. Every time I get comfortable thinking I know something about what I am doing, I find I'm full of...... how 'bout we say new ideas about directions and meaning. OK, crap. My dear, sweet wonderful wife found out this weekend when an off-hand question opened the door to the level of frustration  I am feeling over a new piece. More next time.

Suffice to say, I am very lucky she loves me.

Yeah, I've been......

sluggish lately..... well, with all things internet-ish. Blog, website.

I've been going like a mad-man in other aspects of life. Five shows into the season, 15 paintings have found new homes..... and I've been doing a fair amount of fly tying this spring too. What's fly tying got to do with painting, you say? Nothing- I was trying to segue away from the lame slug joke, and homage to my pop, RF Harrington, and his sense of humor.

The slug? Seen walking around the Oklahoma City Art Festival earlier this spring. More posts to come. I'm perking.

The end for now.....

The Artifact of Landscape show came down this week. I have to take a break from the magnum landscapes for a bit and work on some smaller scale work for my show season. Well, smaller by my new 12 feet is medium-sized standard. I have several 4, 5 and 6 foot paintings underway, which should start finishing up in the next few weeks.

I'm excited about the upcoming show season and the pieces I am getting ready for it, and at the same time, there are ideas for the extra-large landscapes bubbling just under the surface that are hard to put aside for the moment.

Oh well, art was never supposed to be easy, and if it was, I'd be bored.

To the arrival of spring........

Red Roof in Spring Sun, 4 x 6 inches, oil on panel.