Economic Stimulus

Amended version of Tea Talk from last post.

Its been a week of ups and downs in my little art life, rejections or wait listed from 3 summer art fairs; a call and 15 landscapes and Northwest golf scenes are now being shown in Beaverton's Mayor's office, I learned from the check that four paintings are rented or renewed and I heard tonight that River Sea Gallery just sold one of my paintings. The painting life is as full of change as the weather in Oregon.

In between the tea painting I was revising the Cobalt Blue painting, it's closer to a resolution.

12x12

This week I got my copy of "The Visual Palette" by Kevin Weckbach, a short clear elucidation of an approach to evaluating the aesthetics of paintings. He develops a concise statement of the philosophical principles used in the visual dialogues in painting. In short it is a road map for the student of painting or the collector of paintings to understand some of the whys and hows that all successful paintings have to emotionally hook us. He clarified much of my thinking about art and verbalized ideas I've been groping towards in some of my paintings.
I may explore Mr.Weckback's ideas as the basis for future blog posts. we can all learn from him.

Thanks for looking and feel free to let me know what you think of the art.
Bruce