For last few days, as I get in my early morning hikes along the river, I've been thinking about water.

About how it unites us.

As I play with the new works in my sketch books I keep thinking about the oceans. How we can't really claim them for our own. Although we try to with our off shore regulations and fishing boundaries. It seems the oceans, or is it just one ocean?, belong to us all. They or it is how we are joined.

I heard somewhere that if we look at our blue green planet from space today and compare it with the very first image. That we'll see less white and more blue.

Here are a few new images from my "sketchbook" click on any image to see it larger. The first one is my very first image printed on lexan using Golden's digital ground for nonporous materials. I love it's softness. The second is egg tempera over a digital image printed on lexan. The third is my "floating" jelly! It's casein over a digital image on lexan. And the last one is just a photo of the shadows cast by the egg tempera painted image.

This work has been dormant in me for many years. To have it come to fruition is exciting and exhilarating. I love playing with the transparency: of the lexan, the paints and the jellies.

Fun stuff for these wet rainy days as I ponder water.