It's been gray in Ithaca for weeks on end, with snow covering the ground most of this time. Such a setting provided the inspiration for my black and white paintings--all I saw outside my window were shades from white to black.
The last couple of days it's been warmer, causing the snow to melt. Today the sun is actually out, and it feels like spring. This is fitting weather for the close of my black and white paintings. Adrian and I are flying to California tomorrow to visit family for a week, so I'll have lots of new visual stimuli to react to.
Here are the last three paintings in this series, actually the first three paintings I've finished in 2006: RINGED MIGRATION
PARSING FULLNESS
ONLY NOW
As you can see, other colors started to creep into the shades of black and white. I love visiting the black and white world, but I don't want to live there.
