My studio will hopefully be one of the available places for people to visit in this year's event:

Here is a little film I made of my stay at the "Garden of the Gods Lodge" in Colorado Springs.

Have you ever painted over a painting?  Chatting online with a fellow artist friend of mine got me thinking about restoration (or renovation) versus innovation. Sometimes we see something old (a building, a garden, a screenplay etc) and begin tweaking with it again. Something gets edited out, added on or refinished. But for me as a painter, sometimes I'll just shake the etch-a-sketch and start over. Maybe I'll save some remnant like the colour scheme, but only in my head. Here's an example.  Circles 3 initially started out like the first image here, and now it looks like the second. Circles 10 looked like the third image, and now it looks like the fourth.  What do you think?  Have you ever "painted over" something?

I just self-published half of my 365 daily drawing project from 2008 in this volume available on mixbook:

 

<p>Highly Strung from dave jones on Vimeo.</p>

Fall is such an inspirational time for this abstract painter. Here are some photos of leaves I picked up on my way home from work today. There are beautiful abstractions all around me. This is the way I see the world...