Summer, 2015
Oil on Canvasboard, 16 x 20 in

What I remember about this was that it was freezing and very windy outside, but I wanted to paint. I was seeing this scene with the woodstove in my mind’s eye as a very cold and clinical but luminous realism, like a Vermeer. What I was actually able to execute looked more like a Spongebob Van Gogh. I raged and hated it and myself for a while, and then after hiding it from myself for a month or so I decided I kind of like it. I mean, it’s rather cheerful and rollicking – as a partnership between Spongebob SquarePants and Vincent Van Gogh ought to be.