Although I have been negligent in keeping my blog current, I have been busy and happy with life and gestating a new/old  creative inkling... I've started a new body of work using some old pastel paintings that have been sitting around in the studio.  I used them as fertile, pigment rich ground for  a new series..... abstract paintings done with pastel, acrylic and gesso.  I'm loving the process!  (I had actually done some of these about 10 yrs ago, but have solved a technical problem that blocked me).  Here is a  peak at one of my 
newest!