Distressed Wood with Bugs

Nature, even when it is decaying, can be simply glorious.  The wood is from the side of a building in decline in Pt. Reyes Station, California

Contraption

Done for Illustration Friday

La Jolla, California 1973

Photo taken in the backyard of the house Ilene O'Malley lived in in Bird Rock in 1973.  People identified:
1.  Herman Rumper
2.  Craig Lorenz
3.  Richard Becker
4.  Unknown
5.  John Lyons
6.  Marcia Wheeler
7.  John-Paul Carrere
8.  Jenny Paradies
9.  Ilene O'Malley
10.  Martha Kuhl
11.  Tom Peifer
12.  Unknown
13.  Betsy Jaffe
14.  Dean Altizer
15.  Raoul Contreras
16.  Kathleen Price
17.  Chris Baer
18.  Nancy Hoagland
19.  Unknown
20.  Greg Becker
21.  John McCarthy
22.  Tom Baer
23.  Unknown
24.  Joe Peretz
25.  Annie Peretz
26.  Unknown
27.  Barry Wayne
28.  Nancy Hancock
29.  Marty Baer
30.  Valerie Hans
31.  Robin Anderson
32.  Anna Price
33.  Barbara (then girlfriend of Rob Hillcrest)
34.  Bill Haverland
35.  Griff Stokes
36.  Paul Seaton
37.  Tom Moran
38.  Lucy Autrey

Pink Beast

I was painting over a crummy earlier oil painting when this pink beast appeared!  Where he came from I do not know.  Under the beast are four bad portraits I did of fully, or partially, veiled Saudi Arabian women.  I'm intrigued why any woman would agree to cover up her entire body to the top of her head - especially when it feels so good to allow a breeze to softly blow your hair on a beautiful day.  Oil on canvas board 16x20

Blue Squares

It's raining today.  The 7 pale numbers in this new 8x10 oil on canvas painting, inspired by Bauhaus, spell out how I feel about the rain. The pale numbers are scrambled.  Organize them to find the missing word.
Hint:  A=1, B=2, C=3, D=4, E=5, L=12, O=15, V=22, Z=26

This is how I feel today

Fire and Water

New painting done in Chester Arnold's painting class as a 20 minute exercise.  Oil paint on wood coated with triple layers of marble powder & gesso 10 1/2" h x 12 1/2" w