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Campus Scene #2

oil on canvas, 24x48", 2005
Collection of Central Piedmont Community College
currently hanging in lobby of IT Building

Campus Scene #1
oil on canvas, 40X60", 2005
Collection of Central Piedmont Community College
currently hanging in Overcash, 3rd floor

Peggy Rivers asked me to come with her on a little field trip today. She was taking her Landscape painting class to view two paintings of mine that were commissioned by CPCC in 2005. The paintings were intended to hang together in the lobby of the IT Building, but were separated about a year ago. It's been a long time since I've listened to someone critiquing my work! Of course, it wasn't a real critique, as they were way too positive, but it's nice to look back at work completed three years ago, and realize it's a little like seeing a long lost child. I remember many of my thought processes...which surprised me a little---since I seem to forget everything else. I remember exactly how and why I painted the tree and mulch the way I did; why I chose the colors I chose. I can remember the brushes I used the most. It made me realize that I can actually remember that about almost all of my work. Yet I can't remember what I did for my last birthday, or what I had for breakfast this morning. Of course, I can look at it and see things I should have changed in some way, but I also noticed areas that make me back to the moment I painted it. And it all just makes me want to paint a whole lot more.