My short story collection The Gunman in Black is free on Amazon.com this weekend.

 My short story collection The Gunman in Black is a free e-book on Amazon.com on July 8th and 9th.

The link is: The Gunman in Black

More New Paintings

 I've been pretty busy with painting this year. I've also been reading some of the classics I had never read: War and Peace and Don Quixote. I'm actually still reading the latter (close to finishing it). But painting is where I spend most of my free time. I'm still primarily an abstract painter, though I occasionally work more realistically.

                        "Shimmers" (9x12 inches)

                                                      It's listed on Etsy for a better view of it. 

                                                     Untitled (9x12 inches)

Abstract art is not for everyone, but for those who like it, which is still millions of people, abstract art speaks to them through color, shape, and design, and, perhaps, through emotions. How all that works together is difficult to explain. For me, knowing when a painting is finished is usually intuitive, a realization that it works (for me) and there is nothing more to do, and, obviously, I like it.

                                                            "2084" (11x14 inches)

                        This painting made me think of the novel 1984. You can view it better on Etsy.

Of course, I've done more paintings and have many more to do. I hope you're doing what you enjoy doing, whether it's gardening or writing or painting or music. 

Some of my new paintings

 While Covid stopped me from doing a lot of things I had done previous to it, I continued painting, and am still doing so. Fortunately, I'm gradually returning to a more normal lifestyle, getting out more, taking more chances. We recently went to Epcot and seemed to have not gotten Covid. We got into some very crowded places, such as, restaurants. On the way home, we stopped at Buckie's. That's an experience in itself. If you haven't been to a Buckie's, you've got to check it out. It's like Walmart at a gas station. Anyway, here are a few of my recent paintings. If you want to know more about the paintings, check them out on my Etsy account, Richard P Hughes Artist.

                                                                      Interstellar 1

                                                                        Apocalypse Now

                                                After Hiroshige, Travelers in the Snow at Oi

                                                                      Interstellar 4