Duane Keiser keeps on making great paintings

He’s the orig­i­nal “paint­ing a day” guy, although he doesn’t do one every sin­gle day any­more. Of the work cur­rently on his web­site, I’m really fond of both “Odal­isque” and “Two Plums and a Sun­set.” His work is sim­ple and evoca­tive. I am par­tic­u­larly impressed by his sophis­ti­cated use of low-chroma color to cre­ate a con­tem­pla­tive mood.