Five Summer Paintings

Here is a series of five paintings from July and August 2019.  Each is acrylic on paper and 16 inches square. 

Ternion

Oceanic

Partition

Pythagoras

Square Off

Series End

Here are the last two paintings in a series of ten.  Each in this series is acrylic on Arches paper and nine inches square. I've enjoyed working with these variations on a theme, like music in a way.

Azure Light

Wrap Up

Three additions to the current series

In this current series of paintings I'm enjoying working with slight variations in composition and big variations in the color palette.

...and noon a purple glow

Periodicity

Gone fishing

New Series

Here are five paintings, part of a new series.  I'm back to straight edges and geometric forms but with a broad range of color values and intensities.  

Posit Purple

Rustic

Equanimity

Sanguine

O tempora! O mores!

Painting again

It took longer than I expected before I was ready to paint again, but I am back into it with energy and excitement.  Here are three new works.  Each is acrylic on paper and about 9 inches square. One of the paintings is titled Cerulean Blue, The painting contains a color that I think of as cerulean blue, but the title is also a small tribute to Daniel Hoffman who was a beloved professor of literature at Swarthmore College.  He also was a wonderful poet later to be honored as Poet Laureate of the United States.  In 2005, at age 82, he was given an honorary degree by Swarthmore.  I was asked to give the "reading" that began the commencement exercises at which Hoffman's honorary degree was conferred.  It gave me an opportunity to honor my teacher more than 40 years after being his student.

In advance of the Commencement I read through volumes of Hoffman's poems hoping to find an appropriate passage.

In his book length poem titled Brotherly Love I found these words:

And they shall come together in a city,

City of lovely purposes
upholding balconies
espaliered on walls
and windows
reeling with cerulean light -

where each breath's an anthem and each glance a
hymn,

here is the spirit's home.

— Bennett 

Cerulean Light

Incipient

Scheherazade