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Again I used the same palette to create this curved dot pattern. I don’t remember any specific reason for the pattern, but I painted this one around the time Hurricane Rita was hitting the Texas-Louisiana coastline. It was a stressful period.


acrylic on canvas, 5" x 5"

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Having mixed too much paint I carried over the same colors into this piece. The lines of dots represent the flooding of New Orleans after the levees broke. One image, shown over and over again, was the flooding from a canal floodwall near my house. I live on the opposite side of the canal.


acrylic on canvas, 5" x 5"

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Five years ago Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. I evacuated to Memphis two days before the storm. The storm came through Memphis knocking the power out at my hotel. Tree limbs littered streets. When I went to create this painting, I depicted the path (yellow-green) of the storm as it hit coast and continued its path near me in Memphis. The colors came from some the film theaters I visited.


acrylic on canvas, 5" x 5"

Shades of Gray

Since I was still trying to figure out how to continue my current series of dot paintings, I decided to experiment with drawing dots. I played with size and darkness of my dots. There is no image to find. If you do find one, well, it is unintentional.


graphite on paper, 8.5" x 11"

Oil Spill Clippings and My Idea Books

Since the oil spill began in April, I have been collecting newspaper and magazine clippings to paste in my idea book. As you can see I ran out of room in the first book and have since filled three more books. For the moment I will put the remaining artifacts aside. After all I have other materials I want to include my fifth idea book. Normally I have done one or two books in a year. In 2005 and 2008 I did three. This year is unusual since I went more than three. And still, there are four more months left of 2010.

Hidden Circles

graphite on paper, 8.5" x 11"

Sixth of Six

acrylic on canvas, 20" x 20"

Fifth of Six

acrylic on canvas, 20" x 20"

Fourth of Six

acrylic on canvas, 20" x 20"

Third of Six

acrylic on canvas, 20" x 20"

Second of Six

acrylic on canvas, 20" x 20"

First of Six

In addition to the “Oil Spill Series” of dot paintings, I have been working on six more paintings in the “Numeros Series.” Since I had paint left over, I figured I should use some of it for the first layer of paint on those paintings. You will notice that I haven’t even finished the first coat on them. Here’s the first of the six paintings. The order of the paintings may change as I

finish them.


acrylic on canvas, 20" x 20"

Concentric Circles

At a National Art Education Association Convention in Boston in 2004, I attended an “Ice Cream Party” sponsored by Stafford. Around the room there were tables designated for using Stafford products to create art projects. Below is what I made with a coffee filter, Sharpie markers and paint pens. Naturally I gravitated to making a dot piece.


Sharpie markers and paint pens on coffee filter, 7.5 " diameter

Dolphin

The list of sea life, affected by the spill, continues to grow. For this painting, I worked from a couple of photos of dolphins. I chose realistic colors and kept my final image subtle. I have no further plans for paintings related to the oil spill. The topic has become a sore point for me.


acrylic on canvas, 6" x 6"