I have a few new paintings.  My abstracted realism experiment has let to more experimenting and fun.  I am loving the new look of these, and enjoying creating them as well.  The word I love that someone used was energy, there is so much energy in these pieces it really can make someone look at them for a while!   

I asked someone I know who raised bucking bulls if he would mind sharing a photo because that energy on top of the background energy seemed to be a great match, and this is what I did:

He really loved it and asked me to offer it to him first, which I did and he bought it right away.  I sent it to another bucking bull breeder that I know (both of them are collectors also btw) and she said it was bad ass and she wants one of hers done as well.  I think the combination is dynamic!  I will still be doing the more traditional works, but am happy to add this to my available work.  What do you think?

So I've been watching a lot of youtube videos lately that revolve around charcoal. One that interested me used charcoal powder, and I happen to have a bottle of this that I had bought a while back, but never quite knew what I would do with it.   This led to my giving a mixture of charcoal powder and acetone a try, really loosened up the look of my work just with that.

My first experiment I won't be showing you, it is the one I worked out everything on, so I didn't care a lot what 

it ended up looking like, as long as the process worked.  What I ended with was the sworls, drips and so forth were

done first with the charcoal/acetone combination, after that dried I used bone black and titanium white acrylic, allowing some of

the inder coat to show through, and put a more realistic painting on top, one that does more exemplify my work.  The result I find interesting, because of that mix of styles.  When asked why he sometimes paints tightly and other times does loose studies a well known

artist replied "Art is a visual language and some artists are multilingual. Sometimes we speak with emotions and sometimes with logic. Sometimes both. These more “impressionistic” paintings fall somewhere within that spectrum."  I so enjoyed what he had to say about that, and in my case these paintings are for me, a mix of both.  Where will it take me?  That remains to be seen, I hope you will stay tuned and find out.