Sun & Summit #4: Beyond the Briars14" x 11" x 1. 5" Acrylic on Canvas Early in the Morning After Graduation Night Sunrise Above the Summit As I Cross from Left to Right I Can See Two Strange Shapes Whizzing Down the Street Heading Right Toward me And I Cannot Move My Feet Coming into Focus Wheelchairs at Top Speed Our Distinguished President And Companion in Stampede Hijacking Racers From Church Up the Street On a Little Joyride Never to Repeat Early in the Morning After Graduation

The best of friends

Had I Heard the News

but with the portrait being rendered in Black and White (with a hint of Yellow for warmth) I kept to the “Keep it simple” rule and used an overall sunny

Guided by Foolish Romance

simplifying it more and more with each revision

To make the boy’s shirt sweater-like

She lived Near the Lake

Now Should I Tell Them – The Cookies Aren’t Mine

but the dark reddish gesso under-painting I used

so I kept them

18” X 24” X 1

determining the angle between the horizon and a celestial body