Painting #5, Numinosity's Rune, Part of July's Show, Patterns of the Forest, featuring highly gestural paint strokes with a fluid, dendritic marks With the show installation now only two weeks away, final stages of show prep are running at full speed. All the paintings will have their edges painted, a standard practice for me now, after discovering how beneficial the technique is for finalizing the look of a canvas without the need to frame its outside edge with wood. I've

Some of the books from Smith's Art Library, Not shown are the books at home which extend to include, Van Gogh, Thompson, Klimt, Edlefelt and Derain, and later additions to the pile of Signac, Maurice Prendergast Today I am starting a fifth forest painting with the hope that it will become a fourth pattern and sculpture. As I tinkered with my most recent painting (#4 of the series), I found myself torn about the balance of light and dark, and overall complexity within the fore