Entertainment + Fun and a Meeting

Almost time to change the art at the local gallery. I have three new pieces ready to go. Actually, I'm just about done with a fourth but I will save that one for another show. Two of the three are new subjects and the third is a revisit of a scene I painted several years ago. Those first two are based on reference photos supplied to me by one of my daughters who is always ready to send me new material. One is from  snapshot she took on a New York subway ride. An older gentleman was entertaining passengers with a drum solo. Apparently, he is a retired music professor and enjoys performing. I call this Subway Music. I painted this one on a linen covered panel to best achieve the smoothness of the skin.

 You wanna turn? is from a photo taken in a Boston park by the same daughter. I liked that on an obviously crisp day people were out enjoying the park. The posture of the young boy said to me that he was trying to share the fun. The cold, drab day wasn't going to dull his excitement.




The third piece, Lords of the Pond, is another study of the turtles that inhabit the pond behind the gallery. Every time I'm in the gallery I check out the back view to see if they are out enjoying our Florida sunshine. They always seem so serious --as if they're holding a meeting.