abstracteight

I've been playing around with this for more than a week now. I painted it over abstractfive which I decided was expendable. It's rather cool when viewed close up with all the levels of paint that went into it, but from a distance it is pretty blah. We'll see.

24x36" 60x75cm acrylic on hardboard

abstractseven

It took four or five days to get this far. I think it's as far as I'm going. I painted this piece to fill a frame, a wall and a color scheme I had open. I'll put a couple of coats of gloss varnish over this to bring out the colors and the depth and it should be good to go.

24x30" 60x75cm acrylic on hardboard

In the Shadow

The idea here as that we're within the shadow of one of the three intertwined planets that form the Archipelago of the Three Lovers. This shadow would not include only part of the archipelago and so most of it's hazy atmosphere would still be in the sunlight, hence the white background even as the foreground is in darkness.

12x24" 30x60cm acrylic on hardboard

An Archipelago Market

These Archipelago of the Three Lovers paintings have always bordered on the abstract, so they make a convient transition piece between the last half dozen pure abstracts to whatever it is I'm going to paint next. In this painting we have a gathering of Archipelago people about a floating market. Because the Archipelago of floating islands is without gravity the market booths and visiting boats extend in three dimensions, floating about the small islet tethered by a web of vines that act as "walkways" between booths and the anchorage.

12x24" 30x60cm acrylic on hardboard