Various Small Paintings

Here are some paintings I made over the course of the last six months.  My main goal was just to have little more flexibility in terms of exploring ideas and different ways of painting them.  I find that I often get frustrated by getting bogged down on idea that not only may not be working in of itself but even if it was is also exclusionary to the other elements I hope my work will have or that I feel I should be pursuing. It's just easy to go down a path that does not seem to be the right one.  I go back and forth between various methods and approaches of painting.  I think there is an editing process that just has to happen.  I don't think I can just consciously decide I will paint one way or the other.  Nearly all of these are ideas and fragments for paintings I was thinking about on a larger scale.