Sky Dragons, a photo by mister anchovy on Flickr.

I thought I’d post one more old painting tonight. This is a small oil painting, only maybe 10 inches wide. I think I painted it in 2006 and it was exhibited once at NSCAD in Halifax. I still have this one, and in fact I keep it out in my studio just because I like to look at it.  Around this time I did a few paintings, perhaps three or four, with the title Sky Dragons. There was another series too at that time, called Forest of No Return. I named those pictures after the Disney song. It was from Babes in Toyland but I knew the Sun Ra version. There is no reference I know of in the title Sky Dragons. This was the first of them and the title came to me while I was working on it.

In times when I’ve been painting well, it’s all about focus and work. In those other times, I look at some of my paintings and wonder how I ever painted them.