Miscellaneous Decorative Studies

"Miscellaneous Decorative Studies"
Mixed media, Various sizes

A sample of the recent types of decorative compositional color studies I have been working on.

Lungs

"Lungs"
Acrylic and pastel on canvas 24x24

I've been waking up with asthma nightly. It's something I have struggled with my whole life. People take their physical mechanism for granted, and I painted this to confront the viewer with their own biological functionality.

Bookends

"Bookends"
24x24
acrylic on canvas

This was inspired by the song "Old Friends" by Simon and Garfunkel:

"Old friends, old friends,
Sat on their parkbench like bookends
A newspaper blown through the grass
Falls on the round toes
of the high shoes of the old friends

Old friends, winter companions, the old men
Lost in their overcoats, waiting for the sunset
The sounds of the city sifting through trees
Settle like dust on the shoulders of the old friends

Can you imagine us years from today,
Sharing a park bench quietly
How terribly strange to be seventy

Old friends, memory brushes the same years,
Silently sharing the same fears"