Small Comfort - a series of paintings in progress

Stranger is a Relative Term, oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches

White Easter

Easter 2008; a view from the studio window

Wishing all of you a Blessed Easter and Springtime! Thank you for visiting here.

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If you could Try to Try, there would be no End to It, oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches

I saw these blooms Saturday near Nine Mile Creek - just before it goes into the Minnesota River. They're Skunk Cabbage and are named so for good reason. Ken Arndt, from the Minnesota Native Plant Society, led a field trip out to this special spot. I really needed a sign that spring is coming - this helped tremendously!

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Unless You're underwater - or underground - or in the air, You're on Top of the World, oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches

- with special thanks to Sus for encouraging me to keep posting now and then

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Asia and Zsa Zsa Rhyme, oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches

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Time is like a Jet when it's Seven-Forty-Seven, oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches

2.9.2008: retouched and rephotographed

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People used to be Down in the Dumps before Landfills, oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches

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Milkweed Pods seem so ugly on the Outside, oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches

1.26.2008: retouched and rephotographed

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For People to fall through the Gaps in the System they need to be at least the size of Manholes (a.k.a. Tissue), oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches

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There were so many Times in the Past, oil on canvas, 20 x 16 inches

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When Your Head is in the Clouds You can't really Tell, oil on canvas, 20 x 16 inches

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'Because it's Not There' is a Reason Too, oil on canvas, 20 x 16 inches

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All I ever wanted to do, oil on canvas, 20 x 16 inches

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Wasps have Wasp Waists, oil on canvas, 20 x 16 inches

from 2005

Game Suspended, oil on wood panel, 11.5 x 7 inches

Happening 12.06.2007

An Egg-in-the-Box

I've been doing some framing lately. This is Downcast Egg which was first posted here and is also a part of the banner above. The frame measures 26 x 22 inches (outside dimensions) which leaves about 2 inches of linen liner showing between the canvas and the wood of the frame. The wood is clear pine rubbed with many coats of white pickling stain. The canvas is floated on the liner so its sides are clearly visible. It's signed on the lower right-hand side. I might change to signing on the bottom side in the future though.