The Long, Hot Summer

It has been a hot summer, with too many large-scale projects that don't lend themselves easily to blog photos. And I've been lazy about keeping up with my photography and writing. But here are two of my most recent projects. The first is a new outdoor painting of four horses, designed to hang on my garage wall. (Get it? Horsepower..?) It has a much more narrow companion piece which is an abstract of manes and tails. I'll show them in place once they are hung.

The second project was for a neighboring young man who wanted a large, meaningful tattoo to cover an older tat which he had outgrown, emotionally. He had a pretty solid idea of how it should look, but could not execute it as a drawing in order to show it to the tattooist. So I helped him out. Never thought I'd be designing tattoos, but fresh from this one he is already thinking about the next one. I guess I'm in business, so to speak.

Sorry, Ladies, I cannot compromise the gentleman's privacy, so his identity, which is displayed across his (well-formed) shoulders, is obscured in this photo. I gotta do what I gotta do.

Oh, yes, the work of art (the horses) is 36 x 80" (91 x 203 cm.)