Painting with Barbara Fugate

My blog used to be on Windows Live Spaces which was unfortunate because the site's code of conduct policy didn't allow me to post images of my artwork. I was forced to delete figure drawings and paintings I had posted after receiving a threat by the site's administrators that my Space was going to be deleted unless I complied.  The painting on the right is the one that got me into trouble. It popped up on somebody's radar (eek! breasts!) and soon my entire Space was called into question.

I wanted to start a new blog on a more reasonable service but it felt like an overwhelming task. I had been using Spaces since 2004 and had a lot of memories stored there. I kept using my Space but stopped writing about my artistic pursuits. It's really too bad because I made some big strides in my work that year.  It would have been nice to capture some of my thoughts along the way.

Here are some examples of that work for posterity. These were created in the Spring of 2007 under the guidance of Barbara Fugate.

This first one is fairly large and hangs framed in our entryway: