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I've revamped my closet in blues, greens, gray-greens, and teals, mostly sourced from closeout and clearance very unpopular white shirts from JC Penney. So that went well and I learned a lot about dyeing. I'm currently sitting here in a Kermit the Frog green shirt.

I haven't posted new paintings in a while, so here's one that's apropos for the beginning of summer:

The oranges are actually flesh ochre and cadmium yellow and red (all of which produce tones from peach through bright orange very easily). Odd for me, I used an Indanthrone for the blue to keep it warmer, and it's mixed generously through the grays as well.

It's been a while, but my camera doesn't capture canvases very well. The new cell phone actually does somewhat better.

Orange Wave at Sunset


Half Tide

Night Wave


Thunderstorm

The Milky Way Over Everest


Sunset Field


Opening Rosebud

MorpheusPA wrote: ↑

August 10th, 2021, 6:55 pm

The Milky Way Over Everest


Sunset Field


Opening Rosebud

Yes it has been awhile Morph. Glad to see some of your work again!! Nice! I really like "Milky Way Over Everest". ( Yeah, I have an affinity for celestial paintings I developed in the 60's....I think )

I tend toward the celestial stuff myself, but it takes a while to develop, sketch, and paint, so it tends to be about a third of what I do. Or less. Landscapes I can blow off in a couple evenings.

Here's Field with Poppies. I'm actually working on Cornflowers, which will probably be the first to hang in my new office.

That sky has to be one of the most realistic I have ever seen painted. The way the blue gets lighter the closer you get to the tree tops is overlooked in a lot of paintings.

I always ombre the sky in any painting; Rayleigh and Mie scattering have to be accounted for.

Except when I don't. This is an old one, just done on paper as practice. Title "Teegarten B" after the habitable planet in the zone of Teegarten's Star, an M-type red star. The inverted ombre is what a particulate-laden atmosphere on a habitable world might look like.

Here's a quick weekend blowoff. There's just not that much to a cornflower, so the background is much more complicated than the flowers themselves.

The first of this year's Halloween designs, which are certainly a hit at the office. My boss keeps telling people, "Go look in his office! He's completely decorated for Halloween!" So I have people making small talk while trying to look around.

This looks like a mono-color orange. It's not; there's a ton of Alizarin crimson, Cadmium Red, and Cadmium Yellow in here as well, plus Burnt Sienna. But that shows best in very bright light.

I'm working from home and it's a slow day. Obviously from the below. The title is "Witch Cat," but I kind of think of it as, "I like big bats and I cannot lie." It's not an original design; I got it from The Art Sherpa, but thought it was great.

Working from home again and a moderately busy day, but I'm on lunch. Which I don't really eat.

I finished off this last night. It's a kind of half-remembered poster or drawing from ages ago, I can't remember from where. I thought it deserved a painting; I doubt it's anything like the original after sitting in my skull for decades.

Nice Halloween art Morph(cute?) Wife says it puts her in the mood. She loves the little kids. Crap!, that means I have to go out and buy 20lbs of candy. Guess who eats the leftovers? Not her! We didn't participate last year cause of Covid. Wifey is immune compromised and not sure if she is willing yet this year.. Sooooo....guess I have to eat all of it.

I kinda feel like I went a bit backward this Christmas in terms of skills, but my time available also went down, so I was hurrying a little. I have time, perhaps, for one more sketch-grade holiday painting and that's it.

I lost and regained control on this one about 273 times.

This one wasn't too horrible since the style's supposed to be a bit Impressionistic and the colors...well, there's only Prussian blue.

This one turned out the best of the three, but that's really not saying much.

What did go well this year was something new--I've installed a bunch of WiFi-controlled lights around the house, and what with the holidays coming on, programmed them with the colors and timings appropriate for the holidays.

The window strip chases very slowly clockwise in the living room. It's not a room we use much. The post lamp in the far corner also plays red and green, chasing upward. It took me all of maybe ten minutes to program that.



The dining room strip chases very slowly counterclockwise. Again, we usually just pass through this room on the way to the kitchen.



The lights are nifty in that I can simply reprogram monthly (or whenever) for any color, so January is likely to be ice blues. February, tones for Valentine's Day, and so on. And dimmer on the strips since it doesn't need to be obnoxious like Christmas does.

My office is fully tricked out as well at this point, but tends to be a nice warm white (I like 2900 K for the most part) during the day, with my own programmed Sunset at night, which is more orange and red).

Very fun Morph! I've checked those out for my little home theater area in the basement.

Not quite the same, but I used wifi outlets this year to automate the lights for the many trees that my wife likes to put up. We have five up right now each with a different theme . They all turn on at dusk and it creates a very festive look around the house.

Oh, yeah, I did that as well, so now all the plant lights and those light strings on the poinsettia now go off and on at the correct times. Our home network was bogging down a bit, so I ended up having to purchase a second--then third--router, set them up as repeaters, and use them as subnets to take the load off the main. The main's job is just to serve our computers, work computers, and Internet needs, plus send commands to the repeaters.

It has the added advantage of now allowing 300 objects on the network with no fiddling. 450 with the fiddling I did. This amused me until I realized we already had 50 things fighting for IP addresses.

I'm reprogramming for January, the month of...well, it's fifty degrees out there, falling this evening toward the thirties, but abnormally warm for this.

Ice blue-whites and watery cold blue-greens (which never seem to photograph well), with the corner playing blue and white alternating light slowly down the wall.  The window is a split marquee that slowly plays those colors from the top center down the sides.  The adorned plant is a three year old poinsettia, blooming again.

The den also features the new white spiral lamp, which we love.  My office (not pictured here) is done this month in tropical reds and yellows, which I prefer.