Shady Green Space, acrylic, 2007?, 14x22

Nevis Pine Trees, watercolor, 2008, 9x12

Today is the show.  Tomorrow too.  Let me know if you need the details.  These are two paintings that have lived at Dee's house for the last two years since the last show.  I had forgotten about them!  I like the sense of form and the yellow/blue.  That one branch really did curve like that.  I thought of changing it, but decided it added an interesting ambiguity.  And some visual contrast.

I went to a staff development event at the Walker Art Center on Friday last week.  They taught us about the new elements and principles of art.  Time, Appropriation, stuff like that.  It left me wondering what to do with that information.  Is my art irrelevant?  They said that the old elements and principles of contrast, balance, emphasis, etc. are still important and these are just additions.  So that made me feel a little better, but still.  I have to ponder this a bit longer.