I am working on this painting for a group show at a local hospital, and I’d say it’s about 1/2 done. It also looks far less dreary than this  (I took the photo with my phone). It is called Rio On Pools and is based on a photo I took of the Rio On Pools in central Belize, in 2007. The first time I went to Belize we looked for these pools and couldn’t find them, but two years later we looked harder and found this magical place — or at least I think that’s what happened. They did seem to appear out of nowhere.  (It might have been a sort of Brigadoon situation.)

I’m about to put the paints away and get out the pastels to finish it up. Meanwhile I’m working on my other series, especially the Endangered animals one.  I have a larger abstract watercolor that is nearly finished and it’s at the point where I need to decide what to do with it to finish it up.  I am also doing a lot of looking at other artwork. Where I live, there are no local galleries that show a wide variety of art so I need to look at galleries online as much as possible! Two magazines that I love with artwork I love to look at (and I subscribe to both of them) are Hi-Fructose and Blue Canvas, and I recommend all artists have a look at those excellent websites and publications.

I also recently bought a copy of Painter 12, a painting software program that I have wanted for a long time. Here’s a video about it.
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