Oil Paintings

My hands shake due to illness. So on the theory that trying something different might help I have been fooling around with paints. A friend suggested I put a few of the pics up here just for fun, so here they are. Not great art, but fun. And for those like me who are rather seriously ill, anything which is cross-modal such as painting can only help. (I used to have a slideshow of about twenty of my paintings here but people wrote to tell me that Microsoft "products" - which seldom follow international coding standards, sigh - had trouble handling the slideshow, so here are just a few samples instead.)

Soft Landing - Oil on Canvas 4 feet x 3.5 feet We have a lot of herons in the area. Every spring they gather in a stretch of water near here and build nests.	The Outback - Oil on Cloth Canvas 2 feet x 1.8 feet This is a painting of the valley behind our home. The sunrises turn the dry grasses in the valley a sheet of yellow.	Bear Mountain - Oil on Canvas 25" x 19" You cannot see it very well in this cropped picture, but the bear in my painting (half hidden in the lower right) is growling because across the water he spotted a fence. Stupid humans trying to fence the infinite.
Sailing Rough Waters - Oil on Canvas 3 feet x 2.5 feet Before I became too ill to sail any more my wife and I would take our boat and sail in seas like this. Fun!!!	Dragon's Egg - Oil on Velvet 21" x 19" What can I say? I like painting dragons. This one is part of a series which eventually leads to the egg being thrown through the sky upward toward the stars. Cue music now.	Pines in the Valley - Ink and Crayon on board 21" x 19" Melted crayon makes a great (though smelly!) medium. Once applied I scratch lines and fill them with ink. Fun stuff.