More Ejectus from the Studio

I have some new paintings for you. Cathleen's Knees you've seen unfinished, so here it is all done. Followed by Bubble Yum Girl, so titled because the colors I mixed up reminded me of Bubble Yum bubble gum flavors I used to like when I was a kid. As for why she's a girl and not a woman, well, she's younger than I am, and my rule of thumb is a girl is any female about my age or younger. Women are all old. Then there's Head in Hands, which is based on the phone camera photo I use for my wife in my mobile. The photo clearly says, "I am exasperated with you." The painting's a bit less of a total downer.

Then I've got a trio of works in progress for you. Stephanie's always busting my hump about my use of color. I visited her apartment last week and brought a painting to show her but I left it there so I wouldn't have to drag it on the train home with me. A day or so later she sent me e-mail: "And you need to work on your color theory.  Your painting is sitting in my hallway, and its lack of any particularly interesting color relationships is really getting on my nerves." Thanks!

So I decided to work a little more on color. The main problem I have with what Stephanie calls "interesting color relationships" is that what she considers "interesting" I consider "labor intensive". In order to get much more than a few flat colors down, you have to mix things, paint, and then wait for drying. I don't like to wait for drying. Of course the other problem I have with interesting color relationships is possessing no innate talent for color. I have to work on it, she's right.

Hence these two underpaintings. I like the yellow-green one a lot. The second one less so, but again, I was using colors left over from a previous couple of paintings (see if you can guess which ones). Come to think of it the first underpainting is recycled, also, but those work together much better.

The last work in progress is just, well, exactly what it looks like.