The Pumice Seekers (16 x 20)

This painting is of my husband and our girls. He loves his little girls and he likes paintings of himself being a daddy. And truth to be told he likes an excuse to do little boy things. Here he is helping the girls find pumice, the magic rock that floats.

It was one of my first half dozen or so successful paintings. I used the mask and pour method and then spent several hours direct painting it as well.

Stephen likes it too much to let me sell it. But we we don’t have a place to hang it either. Every so often he fishes it out and looks at it.

So for his upcoming birthday I painted this little version of it. It doesn’t have all the nuance of the larger work, but it’s a good little painting and it will fit neatly in his office.

The Pumice Seekers II (9 x 12)

The palette for the first painting was phthalo blue, burnt sienna and hansa yellow for the pourings. I used some burnt umber, raw umber and cobalt blue in the direct painting palette.

For the smaller direct painted version I used colbalt blue, ceruleum blue, burnt sienna, yellow ocher and quinacridone deep red rose.