Three paintings that I'm working on. All oils, 25x30. In the top two I'm very conspicuously referencing Mr. Richard Diebenkorn in almost every aspect. What can I say; I'm a fan. Both of them were originally based on some digital scanner bed collages that I did earlier this year. But now they've sort of taking a life of their own and are getting farther and farther away from their beginnings. After my trip to the Midwest, I started to see the top one as a study of a landscape in aerial view. The middle one...I have no idea. I'm liking where its going but there's no reference or anything. It's just a formal study I guess. The lower painting is the result of many changes in direction. 4 or so. Underneath the top layer of paint is a snowy landscape, an abstract of a scarf midair, a figure study, a home interior scene, a flooded parking garage scene, and now this, which I guess is sort of a bar scene with 5 patrons. I may add another canvas or two to its left side to expand the space that these people are in. I'm just sort of painting and reacting, painting and reacting, and so on in all of these which is a nice change from the planning that I usually do.