I Painted Last Week!

After staring at my background colors for months, I was inspired to finish these paintings last week. Hopefully this week will be as productive.

io

acrylic on canvas, 5" x 5"

jo

acrylic on canvas, 5" x 5"

ko

acrylic on canvas, 5" x 5"

lo

acrylic on canvas, 5" x 5"

mo

acrylic on canvas, 5" x 5"

acrylic on canvas, 5" x 5"

oo

acrylic on canvas, 5" x 5"

Paintings at Ele

Some of my code paintings are now hanging at Ele Shoes and Accessories on Magazine Street in Uptown New Orleans. Only seven of the original twenty-four 6" x 6" paintings remain. The others have sold over the last four years. September 2005, I started another series of 5" x 5" paintings. I’ve posted pictures of eight of them so far - "The 'o" Series."

Code Series

The eight paintings below were completed four years ago. Originally I began with the orange piece. It included some colors I liked at the time. However, I had a lot of trouble deciding how to complete the piece. I soon began work on three others with similar colors schemes. For each one I kept an overall dominant color.

The triangles were just too harsh a shape for me. So, I added small dots over the triangles to soften the pieces. The purple and blue ones came first and then the red one. I finished the orange one last.

Since the four worked, I decided I needed to do four more. I had been asked to put work in a lobby of an office building and these pieces were the ones I intended to place there. Although I completed the other four during the summer of 2002, the use of the lobby space fell through.

Code Blue

acrylic on canvas, 22" x 28"

Code Green

acrylic on canvas, 22" x 28"

Code Lime

acrylic on canvas, 22" x 28"

Code Yellow

acrylic on canvas, 22" x 28"