Small-Space Grid

Today I have been working with a grid of smaller spaces than I have done before. I really like working this way! I limited color and concentrated on not seeing any recognizable thing happening in the painting. Setting new challenges for myself is a good way to go, I think.

Blue

I have just returned from another time at the beach! I have been working on several small oil pastels with bird images in them. I am working with a rather abstract painting with just a hint of a recognizable image, and I do love all the shore birds found at the coast of South Carolina so this seems to work for me. I am trying to do a series of about twenty paintings in this size which will be 12" x 12" framed. I am seeing a connection between the style with the oil pastels and the palette knife acrylics - hovering between abstraction and non-objective.