May the winds through the solstice gates blow gentle in your lives this year.

Summer Solstice shadows

This felt celebratory. Maybe the new Juneteenth federal holiday, or maybe the 32nd anniversary of an excellent marital partnership. Or maybe just the trumpets of the summer weather I love so much.

Not finished, obviously. Working on a design for a door.

I’m working on a portrait for a friend, that has a horse in it. I need more practice on horses, I don’t know them the way I know, say, cats. The legs always seem to come out weird and wrong. The colors were fun though!

the bugs of hot summer

looking in from the summer garden, the leaves brush my cheek

I spent my studio time painting in negative space.