I modified this painting from little nudges from someone special.

My newest painting called; "Mother & Child in a Robe of Many Colors"   I believe this will be the next to last in this series.

"Stromatolites" or the "Oxygen Revolution" inspired by Andrew H. Knoll's book "Life on a Young Planet"

The sky was red and full of carbon dioxide, shallow seas, and then a young life form, Stromatolites, grew in these oceans and begun to breath carbon dioxide, and exhale oxygen....skies became blue.  This small painting is in honor of that revolution.  It is on display now at the Museum of the Living Artist in Balboa Park.

The other painting on display at the Museum of the Living Artist at Balboa Park;

This is "Tree Spirit" which will be on display most of July, 2013.

I have been painting ( between larger paintings ).  Small paintings to work out color and patterns for larger paintings.  This one is on display this month at the Museum of the Living Artist in Balboa Park.

"Sleeper Joyce"

There is no frame on these cartoons, with the paint on all four sides of the stretcher bar.  She is 4 in x 6 in.

I don't know what happened to the painting, but here is a second attempt;

I am sharing my painting named "The Venerable Thich Quang Duc" because it is the 50th anniversary of his sacrifice for religious freedom.  A sacrifice being made by Tibetans right now.

Thich Quang Duc  was the monk who set himself on fire in Viet Nam prior to the war to protest persecution of Buddhists by the Catholic Diem government.  As a young man in 1963, I was shocked by his action and my thoughts about him have persisted throughout  my life.  My resulting study of Buddhism  formed the concept of this painting.

Reporter David Halberstam who witnessed the event wrote:  “.... As he burned he never moved a muscle, never uttered a sound, his outward composure in sharp contrast to the wailing people around him. ”

I am reminded of a verse in the “Heart Sutra”: “Form is emptiness, emptiness is form.”

Thich Quang Duc lived and died the essence of the “ Heart Sutra,” such peace within turmoil!