Let's use up some driftwood and make room for more!

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White River, Blue Sky

White River light beacon. 12"x16" acrylic on canvas board. 3 to go.

Nearing the End of this Current Art Series Focus

Manistique, MI Lighthouse. 14"x18" acrylic on canvas board.

2-4 more paintings to go until showtime. All frames are cut, glued, nailed, filled, and triple varnished.

Driftwood and Painted Fabric, Makes me Want to Throw Everything Aside and Run to the Lake

My newest piece(s). First is a piece I created earlier, but had to make some modifications. Repurposed thrift store frame with painted fabric, frame dimensions: 16.5"x21.5". Following my Lake Superior Blues series. Making use of what you have and what you see.

The second piece is following along the lines of two of my previous driftwood fashioned frames with silk screen fabric inserts, frame dimensions: 18.5"x23". This piece is created specifically in mind of driftwood found along the shores of Lake Superior and of course utilizes that exact material. The Big Lake deposits driftwood on the beaches haphazardly, but the pieces pile up with some direction and almost seems purposeful.

Eh, only Eight more Lighthouse Paintings to do, but Who's Worried?

If you can't tell by my double blogging today, I am trying my best to avoid starting more lighthouse paintings. I'm doing a great job at doing stuff, but not necessarily doing stuff I need to do. Bits is still napped out, and I used this time to finish some baby driftwood paintings. I took a little of this and a little of that from my other "Lake Superior Blues" paintings and made smaller, packable pieces, slightly easier on the wallet and small enough to take in a suitcase on a road trip (I know I always bring a piece of artwork with me when I go driving).

Two pieces at 9"x11" using found frames, thrift store fabric, and my signature materials of blue paint, rounded off driftwood pieces, and roots. The blue is actually two shades worked wet on wet directly related to our recent trip to Black River Harbor. There were the slightest variations of blue bands in the sky that day and what my camera couldn't capture, my eye absorbed and imprinted the color. I think my world is meant to be lived in shades of blue.