AFTER THE RAIN

How great to have some rain . We could hear the thunder over Key West.
Happy Holidays to you from Sugarloaf.

This little Rooster...

LOOKS LIKE

a glossy, tin-glazed tile.

More to be done but the first drawing pleases me.

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UNTITLED

rooster.

Oil on collage panel; 6 x 8 inches

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I'll call it "LIGHT COVER"
as he hides behind a weed.
Oil on collage.

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PROGRESS....

A YELLOW GLAZE

stippled 

and scraped to reveal the line drawing.

Then minute additions of colors with

teeny brushes.

Sore neck!

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One more of the boys....
I used to have a vest that color; loden?

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This is one of my favorites.
In this first stage it looked like
an old tile.
The glossy oils shine like ceramic.
It has changed a bit since this!

ROOSTER2

THIS IS
oil on collage panel;
the initial sketch design.
it's already changed  in texture and color.
Most of the panel is chrome yellow.

Get Happy...

YOU KNOW WHAT

makes me happy 

and makes time disappear?

PAINTING!

I'll be posting a

rooster series the next few days.

Glossy wet oils on collage.

In town....

Today is my day "off."

Laundry is spinning;

toast is toasting

and Tulip has had two walks in the bright

beautiful day.

In town,

in front of the studio

there's the commotion of

construction on 

Simonton.

The municipal archaeologists 

have unearthed

the old brick streets of Key West.

I am out of the dust

behind my studio door

at number 316.

Snowflakes and palm trees.

TRUNKS of two types.....

Wearing trunks in different ways.

Oil on canvas:
22 x 28

"TRUNKS:III" (SHALLOW)

OIL on collage.

6 X 8 inches.

"TRUNKS; V" (Sunrise)

Oil on collage:
6 x 8 inches.

"TRUNKS:IV" (ODD MAN OUT)

OIL ON COLLAGE;
6 X 8 inches.

"TRUNKS: VI" (TO GO CUPS)

A-DRINKING
go the boys.
Oil on collage.
6 x 8 inches.

"TRUNKS: I" (DIC-DIC FISH)

BOATERS
use caution when you spot a dive flag.
Skinny-dippers use
caution when there are dic-dic fish about.

6 X 8 inches; oil on collage.

"TRUNKS" series

I've done some
(deceptively)
simple paintings.
Oil on collage.
Men on the beach.
6 x 8
inches.

"PUNCH LINE"

OIL ON PANEL

David Scott Meier

"CERTIFICATE OF APPRECIATION"

EVERYONE

deserves a Valentine

and a kind word....

Oil on panel.

11 x 14 inches.

David Scott Meier

Do you like unwanted animals?

Stopped by the FKSPCA (5230 College Rd, Key West, FL 33040
(305) 294-4857) this week on the way to the studio. Any amount you donate to support the organization is now being matched up to $25,000.That's a good thing!

"TREE HOUSES" Oil on panel

PUSHED AROUND

some malachite green alkyd oil

with a very poor brush

to draw the tree.

Lettering lets you know where I'm going with this.

Some of the tenants with a view

to the property.

"TETE A TETE"

Oil on panel;
12 x12 inches.

"RUNNING DOG AND ICE CREAM TRUCK"

OIL
on panel; 16 x 20.

"MOONLIGHT BAY"

DAVID SCOTT MEIER

Oil on panel

"EXPLORERS"

"EXPLORERS"

16 x 20 inches;

oil on canvas.

I just paint and let the composition emerge.

This one is nearly a four-paned window on a marsh, isn't it?

The repetition of 2 yellow color blocks

and the sail shape (diagonals) help break the grid.

This painting was just delivered to my neighbors' wunder-house;

it couldn't be in a nicer, friendlier home.

"GARDEN GOES 'BOOM' "

OFF
to its new charming home yesterday.
Collection of C.P.
Oil on paper.
A note attached explains the title as
larger plants take off after three years in our garden.

"MISTER BOY"

Playing in the studio while it's slow.
Watercolor on paper with
ink border designs and lettering.

ROOSTERS
are boy-chickens.

Handmade wrapped mats....

Today is...

a day to make wrapped, acid-free mats.

Collages of print scraps
around 5 x 7 inch openings.

A warm day with few visitors so I can play.
The collages are rubbed down with acrylic and gesso
then gloss varnish.

You can see some of my carved block work printing, too.
These will be used as secondary lining mats under rag mat board.

"BUDDY"

BIGGER

tha a bird or butterfly or elephant?

Smaller than a 23 carat gold sun.

Ink over oil monoprint.

"SMARRT, TOO!"

"SMART, TOO!"

is sized for a 16 x 20 frame.

Ink over oil monoprint

with 23 carat gold.

"WHAT IT IS..."

INK

on oil monoprint.

23 carat gold.

"WORLD CHORUS"

ONE OF

my new monoprint backgrounds in (blue) oil.

The singers are india ink 

and a glitter of 23 carat gold

Little "MOM BIRD"

Little "MOM BIRD"

6 x 8 inches...

OIL on panel

CERTIFICATE OF APPRECIATION"

The face of love...
"CERTIFICATE OF APPRECIATION."

In progress.

Oil on panel with 23 gold to be added.
11 X 14 inches.

"BUNNY BOOGIE" by David Scott Meier

A romp of rabbits.

There's the title....

And one of the dancers.

Oil on collaged panel.

Mr. Upper-left Bunny.

Cool moves...

16 x 20 inches.

At the studio

in Key West.