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Perhaps Persephone (watercolor 16 x 22) $700
Initially, this painting was inspired by a bird’s nest left over from last Spring. Looking at the nest, the woman with bird’s nest hair and the whitewater dress rising from the ground just came to me. She became Persephone as painted her. Now she is drowsily sinking back into the earth before her return to Hades and the Underworld. She’ll be back in the Spring.
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The Heart of Salamanca (watercolor 19 x 23) $700
This is early morning on the Plaza Mayor in Salamanca, Spain. In a couple hours the Plaza will be full of umbrella tables. But right now the coffee drinkers are inside enjoying the warmth.
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Mudejar Pillar No. One (watercolor 10 x 14) $300
Mudejar Pillar No. Two (watercolor 10 x 14) $300
These two capitals come from the Nazrid Palaces in The Alhambra of Granada, Spain.
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Trujillo Cathedral (watercolor 10 x 22) $400
This is the cathedral in Trujillo, Spain, also known as “Our Lady of Peace.” I’ve painted her from the side, as a neighbor might walk to her. But she presides over Trujillo’s Plaza Mayor.
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Alhambra Muse (watercolor 17 x 23) $700
This is one of the first courts in the Palacios Nazaries of Granada’s Alhambra.
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Via Miranda (watercolor 9 x 19) $250
From Miranda del Castanar, all the views are vistas but all the vistas are framed by narrow streets. This little half timbered village, with a population of less than five hundred is a joy to wander.
The View From Miranda (watercolor 11 x 19) $300
The paintings are the same length but different widths and would make a nice set. They are available either individually or discounted slightly as a set.
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Strolling the 1929 Expo (watercolor 23 x 17) $700
This is Seville’s Plaza de Espana where Spain held the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929. Seville went all out for this World Fair venue. The plaza is a beautiful mix of Art Deco and Spanish Renaissance Revival, Spanish Baroque Revival and Neo-Mudéjar styles.
Leaving Segovia (watercolor 23 x 16) $600
Driving out of Segovia’s old town ends with a spectacular view of the aqueduct. But driving out on a rainy night, is like driving into an impressionist painting.
Mudejar Arch (watercolor 13 x 18) $400
During our trip to Spain, I fell in love with the mudejar horseshoe arches. This particular arch is in the Palacio de la Condesa de Lebrija in Seville. The Palace is an architectural hodgepodge, with mudejar and Renaissance elements and ancient Roman mosaic floors.
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Hanging Out at Opal Creek (watercolor 13 x 22) $600
This is our favorite lunch spot on Opal Creek. It’s just below the falls and about half way around the pretty looping trail to Jawbone Flats.
Aqua Falls (watercolor 16 x 23) $700
No these falls aren’t actually named the Aqua Falls. I don’t know their name. I think of them as the aqua falls, because the water is the most beautiful aqua color there. There being the first falls on the Opal Creek Trail, east of Salem, Oregon. If you hike the trail you’ll find them just as you reach the abandoned mill machinery. You have to scramble a little off trail down some rocks to reach this view of them. The good news is you’ll probably have them to yourself.
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Toledo Morning (watercolor 14 x 22) $600
The streets of Toledo are shaded by canvas sails and lit by hanging lanterns.
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Over the Rooftops (watercolor 10 x 17) $400
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Caceres, Spain as seen from the cathedral roof.
Break-time Caceres (watercolor 11 x 13) $300
This is old town Caceres.
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A Doggie Moment (watercolor 12 x 19) Sold
One more painting from my Spring trip to Spain. This is Caceres, Extremadura inside the medieval city walls.
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The Church in San Martin (16 x 23 watercolor) Reserved for WSO Fall 2018
San Martin de Trevjo is a sleepy mountain village in Extramadura, Spain. I spent a happy couple hours wandering among the half-timbered homes there.
Visiting Sky City (watercolor 12 x 19) $500
Acoma City, a pueblo in New Mexico.
The Hips Don't Lie (watercolor) $400
Flaminco dancer in Seville.
Setenil Fortress (watercolor 15 x 24) $600
Setenil de los Bodegas of Cadiz Province, Spain is one of the more interesting pueblos blancos of Andulacia. Unlike most pueblos blancos it occupies either ridge of a valley rather than a hilltop. Many of the houses are semi-troglodyte, occupying shallow caves in the valley walls. One street includes a natural tunnel.
The view in this painting is from our apartment porch in Setenil looking across at the old castile.
Sant Pau's Gates (watercolor 17 x 22) $700
I was fascinated by the shadows cast by wrought iron gates in front of the Sant Pau Hospital Moderisme in Barcelona, Spain.
Bringing Down the House (16 x 23 watercolor) $600
This house demolition caught my eye because it was so surprisingly beautiful.
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Art Institute Reflected (13 x 19 watercolor) $400
The Art Institute of Chicago, both live and in reflection.
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The El (13 x 18 watercolor) $400
This is downtown Chicago, looking down the El.
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Door to Chicago (watercolor 16 x 22) $700
A look through the Chicago Art Institute’s doorway onto Michigan Ave.
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Dutch (16 x 20 Collage) $400
We saw this friendly dog looking out of a canal house in Akmaar. He just demanded to be immortalized in collage.
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Five Pears (10 x 25 collage) $150
Collage of hand-printed acrylic mono-prints on collage board.
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Sunflowers with Chair (16 x 20 Collage) $600
This is the first collage I’ve published on-line. It is hand-printed paper on plywood.
I began my foray into collage by hand-printing and hand-marbling paper to create a paper palate. I print paper using stamps, found objects, combs, palate knifes, and other implements to texture acrylic paint on a gel pad. As I work, I stamp a sheet of paper with the paint I’m lifting from the gel pad. When I have the gel pad textured to my satisfaction, I lift one or two prints from it’s surface by laying paper down on the pad. Later, I may stamp the gel pad mono-prints with a contrasting color. The goal is to have many textures in a full range of color and value.
Ultimately I tear the paper into little pieces and glue it to boards with liquitex to create paper “paintings.”
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The Contraption at Number Two (12 x 19" watercolor) $400
Walking around The Jordan neighborhood in Amsterdam, we collected interesting variations on the bicycle. The bicycle-wheelbarrow combination was common. We saw it used to transport children, tools, and goods.
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Haarlem Kirk (16 x 23 watercolor) $700
We spent our last day in the Neatherlands in Haarlem. Haarlem is just just under a half hour by train from Amsterdam, but feels like it’s miles away because where Amsterdam is large and lively, Haarlem is small and quiet.
The young women in the foreground were adding more chalk to a square already covered in graffiti. None of it was pictorial and all of it obviously washes off with each night’s rain.
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Morning on the Saint Charles Bridge (17 x 23 watercolor) SOLD
Prague’s most famous landmark, the evocative Saint Charles Bridge hums with tourists in the afternoon. In the morning it is quietly beautiful.
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