"Mango on Black" 11x14 (Click here to bid on eBay)

I was going through my archives of past photos and found a subject that I shot but for some reason didn't paint a couple of years ago.
I'm continuing to try to lay the paint on thicker, and just have fun putting together a fresh looking painting , loaded with strokes and juicy thick clumps of paint, but for as much as I try, the end results are a pale result of what I intended. I'm painting 11x14's because I think they are easier to let that effect take place but maybe not. Click on the image for a larger view.

"Tangelos" 9x12 )Click here to bid on eBay)

This is the last painting I painted from the garage studio that I was working in at my daughter Kacey's house in Chandler. We came out to stay for the winter back in November of '07, but we sold our house in South Dakota in December and moved whatever we didn't sell to Arizona in January. Our new home is in the south of Gilbert in a development called Seville. This will be the 80th painting that I completed during those hot days and nights in that garage. It's a painting of one of the tangelos that our Aunt Mary gave us from the many fruit trees she has in her yard in Peoria. Click on the image for a larger view.