The Covid Line (watercolor 16 x 23) Available
Our laundry now sports multiple face coverings for protecting self and others during the Covid 19 pandemic. Like all laundry, it’s at least pretty on the line
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August 7, 2020 1:41 pm
1:25 pm
Back-Lit Bramble (watercolor 16 x 23) Available
We aren’t going much of anywhere this summer due to Covid-19. Lucky for us, nearby Croisen Scenic Trail provides endless scenic fodder. This particular scene, is in the less trafficked part of the trail below Sprague High School.
July 12, 2020 6:34 pm
6:18 pm
In my Cumulus Balloon (13 x 15 pen and ink) available
I’ve always wanted to float on the clouds.
5:53 pm
Tree Pose: Root Your Foot Down (pen and ink 11 x 18) available
In many standing yoga poses the instructions are to root down through your standing leg. That seems particularly fitting for tree pose.
June 2, 2020 6:01 pm
The Whale Titanic (archival pen 10 x 14) available
The Titanic was whale of a ship. This Titanic is a whale and unlike the original, it’s meant to dive.
5:42 pm
Needled by Ravens (India ink 13 x 15) available
A second ink drawing of a pine tree with raven needles. This time a used gnarled and twisted old Ponderosa Pine from the edge of the Grand Canyon as a model.
May 10, 2020 3:11 pm
Park Giant (watercolor 17 x 23) Available
Portrait of an imposing pine tree in the Salem, Oregon Pioneer Cemetery.
2:54 pm
Orange and Blue Mesa (alcohol ink 5 x 7) $50.00
A little painting of a fantasy mesa.
April 24, 2020 10:18 am
Dappled Spring Trail (watercolor 16 x 23) Available
Dappled Spring Trail II (watercolor 13 x 21) Available
Two sunny spring views, of the trial below our house in Salem, Oregon. Croisan Creek Trail, is an endless source of inspiration. During the current shelter in place orders, it is even more valuable as an escape.
9:34 am
Harbor Abstract II (17 x 23 watercolor) Available
A harbor existing only in my teeming brain.
9:16 am
Stone-Drop Before the Bridge (watercolor 13 x 18) Available
Water is ever fascinating. This time it is the ripple pattern caused by a stone landing the the Llangollen Canal, in Shropshire, England that caught my eye.
January 31, 2020 12:21 pm
Lithe Birch (watercolor 13 x 19) available
An upwards look at a graceful birch.
12:10 pm
Looking Up Cologne (watercolor 10 x 14) available
The tower leading up to Cologne Cathedral’s tower is uniquely lit with multiple windows. Here is my take on the view up to the bells.
January 11, 2020 3:39 pm
Harbor Abstract I (watercolor 15 x 19) Available
The abstract harbor view contains reference material from Wales, to Oregon, British Columbia, to Washington State. Prints are available here.
3:27 pm
Barcelona Night (watercolor 13 x 19) Available
Barcelona in January. Even after midnight the streets still bustle. Prints available here.
3:15 pm
Fall Light on Croisen Trail (watercolor 12 x 19) Available
Another view of the hill below our house. Prints are available here.
January 1, 2020 5:20 pm
November 22, 2019 4:32 pm
The Bridge in Our Wake (watercolor 15 x 19) Available
This is the beautifully rural Llangollen Canal, near Llangollen, Wales. As you can see from the wake, I took the reference photos for this painting looking back over the stern of our little narrowboat. To be ridiculously specific, this Bridge 36W looking back towards Trevor Basin on the last leg of our journey to Llangollen itself. Its idyllic up there.
Prints are available here.
November 4, 2019 6:26 pm
The Bones of Dinas Bran (watercolor 19 x 23) Available
This is bits and pieces of what’s left of Castell Dinas Bran, sometimes referred to as Crow’s Fortress or Crow Castle. The castle was probably built sometime in the 1260s by Gruffydd II ap Madog, making it the only Welsh Castle we visited to actually have been built by the Welsh. The castle is now an evocative ruin perched on the hilltop above Llangollen.
We walked a mile or so up to see it after having moored within sight of it the night before. It’s a powerful sight whether seen from above or below.
Purchase fine art prints here.
October 28, 2019 5:05 pm
Moored Garden (watercolor 17 x 23) available
Another painting from our narrowboating trip on the Llangollen. This time there’s actually a narrowboat in the painting, not to mention the canal itself. I took the reference photo for this painting not far from Ellesmere.
Prints are available here.
October 20, 2019 1:15 pm
All Rows Lead to the Eastgate Clock (watercolor 17 x 23) available
Chester’s pride and joy, is the The Rows, a shopping district of more or less authentic Elizabethan building centered around the The Queen’s Jubilee Clock set over the Eastgate of the city walls. Prints are available here.
1:13 pm
Late Afternoon Denbighshire (watercolor 17 x 23) available
We are just back from a narrowboating trip on the Llangollen Canal in North Wales. Paradoxically, we spent much of our week’s boat rental walking on dry land both along the canal and into the countryside. This particular walk was along part of the Offa’s Dyke Path just a few miles west of Chirk Marina. The typical slate farmhouse in the mid-ground was visible for most of our late afternoon walk. Prints are available here.
August 19, 2019 6:12 pm
Shadows Over the Hilltop (watercolor 10 x 15) available
Shadows on the hillside above Croisan Creek, Salem, Oregon.
6:01 pm
Looking Up Saint Peters (watercolor 15 x 17) available
An upwards look at St. Peters, in Rome.
July 31, 2019 3:30 pm
Red and Black Ink Blot I (alcohol ink 5 x 7) available
Dark Place I (alcohol ink 5 x 7) available
Blue Place I (alcohol ink 5 x 7) available
Blue Place II (alcohol ink 5 x 7) available
July 30, 2019 5:17 pm
Cresting the Hill (watercolor 16 x 23) Available
Another forest painting from Croisan Scenic Trail.
5:00 pm
July 8, 2019 5:00 pm
Northwest by Victorian (watercolor 15 x 22) Available
This is a fantasy grouping of the real Victorian houses just east of downtown Albany, and the rather prominent church just west of downtown.
Purchase the original or a fine art print here.
4:56 pm
Lacey Edge (watercolor 12 x 17) Available
Watercolor painting of the lacy patterns made by light on the forest edge.
Purchase the original or a fine art reproduction here.
June 8, 2019 6:25 pm
5:22 pm
4:47 pm
Early Spring (watercolor on yupo 11 x 14) Available
A little bit like alcohol ink, but more controllable. This painting is watercolor on Yupo, which is a little like painting on glass.
May 23, 2019 1:53 pm
Pantheon Spotlight (watercolor 12 x 17) Available
The dome in the Roman Pantheon is open to the sky. It provides all of the natural light in the church. The result is slowly moving spotlight, picking out first one wall than another in the Pantheon.
May 8, 2019 8:18 pm
Spring Snow on Croisan Train (watercolor 14 x 19) Available
We walked Croisan Scenic Trail all this winter, rain, snow, or shine. It is beautiful in the snow.
8:10 pm
Breaking Out: Empty Nest IV (watercolor 18 x 21) Available
Another painting based on my empty nest.
February 15, 2019 6:23 pm
Wings From Home: Empty Nest III (watercolor 23 x 17) Available
Another painting based on the empty nest I found in our yard.
February 5, 2019 7:54 pm
Looking Up (watercolor 12 x 17) Available
Looking up from the nave of Salamanca Cathedral, Spain.
7:47 pm
Waking Forest (watercolor 13 x 18) Available
A Columbia Gorge nymph emerges out of the landscape.
7:39 pm
Empty Nest II (watercolor 15 x 19) Available
Reflections on becoming an empty nester, via abstract variations of a bird’s nest I found in my backyard.
