Hoarfrost.

I heard the term hoarfrost from my mom one winter when I was in grade school. I always wondered how they came up with that name because I thought she was saying, "Whore's Frost." : ) I worked on this piece more than I ever did on any 4th grade math problem. I tried every medium and technique I could think of to make it look like I wanted it to. And still it suffers. I am reminding myself that my initial goal was to "Just Paint."
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Northern Lights.

Think abstract meets surreal. I like the colors in this one, especially the green. A painting of them on a larger canvas is now on my to do list. This was done oils on sandpaper too. The streaky nature would have been next to impossible for me on regular canvas. Almost as nebulous as the "lights" themselves.

Old Degas, New Tricks.

The plan was to paint this Degas using pastels. Instead of pastel paper, I used fine sandpaper. I was using oil paint for the undertone but, the oil paint on the sandpaper was so amazing the way it "melted" into the sandpaper allowing me to paint layer upon layer of oils that I finished the piece without even getting to the pastels. I have no idea how archival this process is but, I can't wait to try it again.