Yeah, OK, I'm guilty! If this landscape painter gets into a subject it's easy for me to become obsessed by it. And right now I'm completely obsessed by the ocean. So unlike me because it's usually the mountains and oaks that have my attention and paintbrush... but not right now.

A couple of artists I know discussed this recently: an artist's obsession with a thing and the compulsion to dig deeper and deeper into it. I think that this phenomenon is true for many kinds of artists such as writers and sculptors as well as painters. You want to explore deeply any subject that fascinates you. From the outside it sure looks like obsession.

Here are the results of recent efforts and as you can plainly see they are all sunsets. And right you are... no titles as of yet. I am so bad with titles!!!

11 by 14, oil on canvas

16 by 20 inches, oil on canvas

18 by 24 inches, oil on canvas

12 by 24, oil on canvas