In the meantime, while prints, and Zazzle goodies will continue to flow, I will not be able to mail paintings until I return.  Our house sitter is a gem: she waters; she feeds the dog; she gets the mail; but alas, she does not mail paintings.  We will be back on the 27th, tired but replete with sunshine.

In the meantime, here are some paintings from vacations past:

And Suddenly the Duomo (15 x23 watercolor) $600

Between the Showers on HWY 101 (watercolor 10 x 14) SOLD

The Corrogated Plain (11 x 15 watercolor) $175.00

Montana Road Trip (12 x 18 watercolor) $250

Twixt Wind and Water SOLD

Singing the Cello (10 x 13 watercolor) $350

The saxophone and the cello are, for me, the two instruments that don’t just play, they sing with all the tonal freedom and nuance of the human voice.  I try to capture that freedom and nuance in this painting through color and abstraction.

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The Ultimate Alley View (12 x 19 watercolor) $450

A colorful back alley view of the Duomo, Florence, Italy.

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Licorice Pieces (11 x 16 watercolor) $450

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Candy Clarinet (14 x 20 watercolor) $450

A portrait of a friend’s clarinet.   She can make it sound like candy too.

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Waiting Bike (13 x 19 watercolor) $500

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Monterosso Cafe (watercolor 16 x 22) $600

The Cinque Terre, or five lands do not have much in the way of tourist sites.  They are the tourist site.  The five coast hugging Italian villages feature brightly colored townhouses, residential streets made up of nothing more than a flight of stairs,  beautiful coastal trails, and tight picturesque beaches.  In July of last year they were also hot as blazes and ought to have been uncomfortable, but the narrow shady streets, and cool ocean made up for the heat.  Oh, and there was gelato too, lots of handmade gelato.

We visited the four villages actually on the coast,  and dipped our toes in the water at more the one beach.   We also climbed innumerable stairs just for the fun of climbing and looking down.  This painting is of  Monterosso, the largest of the five, and the one with the widest flattest beaches.  We stopped to sample the gelato at the cafe.  We ate it while watching our girls play in the warm surf.

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Bridge of Sighs (13 x 19 watercolor) $600

This is Hertford Bridge, more commonly known as the The Bridge o Sighs, after the The Bridge of Sighs in Venice.   It connects the two quads of Hertford College, in Oxford, England.  It doesn’t really resemble Venice’s Bridge of Sighs, but it is beautiful, and quintessentially Oxford.  We visited in the late afternoon when street was beautifully shadowed.

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Oxford Lane (watercolor 13 x 19) $500

A little taste of Oxford—another poured painting.

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Pilgrims and the Gate (watercolor 15 x 20)

I am the March  featured artist at Art in the Valley, Corvallis, Oregon.  The show will be of my Europe paintings.  Reception March 9th, from four to six.