This is a new painting, a 16″ by 2o” canvas. It has a darker feeling than a lot of the recent work and has a much more ominous tone. I think a lot of that comes from the chaotic nature of the sky and the darkness that rises up from between the field rows.
What’s this painting about? I don’t know actually. Like most of the work I do, there’s not a lot of predetermination in the way I paint so sometimes my paintings probably reflect my mood or state of mind from the particular time frame in which a piece is painted. I guess I was a bit more worried than usual when I was painting this.
Or maybe this piece just worried me a little. The chicken and the egg thing.
I often wonder if a piece reflects how I’m feeling at the moment of painting or has more effect on me after it’s done. Maybe they’re the same thing and it’s just a matter of recognition.
I don’t really know. I just paint.
This painting is still untitled. I’m still trying to gauge what I see and feel in it so a title is still sort of nebulous for me. If you have any suggestions, I’d like to hear them. I may have another contest like the one I held last year to name a painting so use this as a warm-up, okay?
Redtree Times 
I love the sky! How about “A Little Worried” 🙂
That certainly fits!
From A Distance.
That’s all I’ve got.
I’ll take it, Dave.
Gary: I think the painting does reflect your mood. It’s hard not to be troubled by the health care debate and Eric Massa and the nation’s economic/unemployment woes and on and on. It’s hard to avoid all the storm clouds out there.
Yes, it is hard to ignore the chaos around us. Even when you intellectually recognize that circumstances are beyond your control, there’s always an anxiety in simply being a witness.
Oh, I do like this one!
My title would be The Leaving Season
I love the ambiguity of the painting itself. What appear at first glance to be furrows could in fact be shadows.
If they are shadows, some reach out naturally from the building and trees. But two (and a third at the edge) reach out from – what? There’s nothing there. The reality that cast the shadow is gone – when did it leave? and for what?
The title itself is lightly ambiguous. Are the trees leafing out, or are the leaves falling? Is the sun rising, or is it setting, leave the world dark?
Yup. If it were mine that’s what I’d call it.
Good title! That may stay with this one. I also enjoyed your thoughts on the furrows being shadows. I find it interesting when someone points something in my work that I didn’t notice myself. I think that speaks to the ambiguity of the piece and your title.
Thanks so much.