Door to Chicago (watercolor 16 x 22) $700
A look through the Chicago Art Institute’s doorway onto Michigan Ave.
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September 26, 2017 8:52 pm
July 14, 2017 10:59 am
Morning in Le Marais (17 x 23 Watercolor) SOLD
My husband, daughter, and I spent a pleasant morning walking through the Le Marais district in Paris, on our way to the Pompiduo Modern Art Museum. The Le Marais was once inhabited by the French aristocracy and later become center of the Jewish community in Paris. Post WWII, it is once again inhabited by traditional Jews. I found the Jewish men’s back hats and suits striking against the back drop of more casually dressed tourists.
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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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10:24 am
Five Pears (10 x 25 collage) $150
Collage of hand-printed acrylic mono-prints on collage board.
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10:17 am
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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July 13, 2017 5:10 pm
Dining Canalside, (17 x 22 watercolor and pastel) $600
This is eating out Amsterdam style. The painting is mostly watercolor with a few pastel accents.
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May 16, 2017 3:28 pm
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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January 24, 2017 4:29 pm
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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November 30, 2016 12:40 pm
Fog Over Croisan Valley (17 x 23 watercolor) Sold
This painting is a little closer to home than most of my recent work. I see this view every morning on the way home from my walk down Croisan Scenic Trail. The trial occupies a long thin, Salem park with our neighborhood a hundred feet above it and Croisan Creek a few hundred feet below it. The path is beautiful in all seasons and rarely feels nearly as close to town as it is. It’s particularly evocative in the fog.
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November 26, 2016 1:39 pm
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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1:37 pm
After Midnight (17 x 23 watercolor) $700
After Midnight began with a lecture and demonstration I did for the The Watercolor Society of Oregon’s Fall 2016 Convention. For the demo, I painted the Munich Rathaus Tower six time in various stages of completeness. Below is the one painting of the six I completed:
Munich Rathaus (8 x 13 watercolor) $200
I liked the this little painting so much, I felt compelled to do it again in a larger format. But I didn’t want to just repeat the painting on a larger scale. The tower, like many in Germany, reminds me of fairy tale illustrations. So I ran with that notion tweaking the scene just a little to add a rather unreal illustrative moon and an impossible sky.
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1:32 pm
Stairs to Cesky Krumlov (12 x 22 watercolor) SOLD,
Cesky Krumlov is a magical town of twisting streets, nestled in a river bend. The castle, churches, and residential neighborhoods occupy the hill about town. This is the view is the from the residential neighborhood above the river. The “street” down into town is actually a stairway.
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1:29 pm
Bridge to Cesky Krumlov (13 x 17 watercolor) $350
Cesky Krumlov sits in a bend of Vltava River in the Czech Republic. It is a walkers town. And if you walk, you eventually cross the Vltava. All the bridges are charming and walkable.
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September 1, 2016 3:59 pm
Horsing Around With Accordions (watercolor 17x20) SOLD
Buskers with wearing horse-heads and playing the accordion are standard Vienna fare. We heard these three coming to and going from The Leopold. They were loud, enthusiastic and good, playing both traditional folk and a few pop pieces. But mostly they are just visually fun.
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August 16, 2016 6:12 pm
View From The Cloister (watercolor 15 x 23) SOLD
This is Westminster Abbey as seen through the wrought iron work of the cloister. It is the view visitors now see just before they exit the abbey complex. But for hundreds of years it was the view seen by the monks on their way to services.
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August 12, 2016 3:56 pm
These are a few sketches from my travel diary:
Karls Kirk, Vienna, Austria (Felt-tip Pen)
The little figures in the boxes show the pedestrian signals in and around Karlsplatz which have been redone in celebration of gay marriage.
F.X. Messerschmidt Head, Belvedere Palace (Felt-tip Pen)
The Upper Belveder Palace has a wonderful collection of Klimt. But the room that draws the most smiles in the one that contains Felix Xavier Messerschmidt’s expressive sculptured faces.
Accordion Players With Horse Heads, Vienna (Felt-tip Pen)
Playing folk music on accordions in Vienna, is a street performers’ staple.
Details from the Jewish Museum, Prague (Felt-tip Pen)
Prague’s Jewish Museum consists of three synagogues, and and cemetary with explanatory display cases. My sketch shows an outside window and a detail from a case.
Viktualienmarkt, Munich (Felt-tip Pen)
The beer garden in old town Munich includes many green grocers, cheese mongers and other non beer vendors (the beer and sausage in quite fine too).
Municipal Building, Prague, Cezch Republic (Felt-tip Pen)
The Municipal Building is an Art Nouveau wonder inside and out.
Salzburg from Fortress, Austria (Felt-tip Pen)
Salzburg from the landing in front of the Fortress.
St. Charles Bridge, Prague, Czech Republic (Felt-tip Pen)
The bridge is beautiful whether you are on it or looking at it from another bridge. It is also crowded during the day. This sketch is from the early morning when I had it almost to myself.
St. Vitus Cathedral and Cerney Sculpture (Felt-tip Pen)
Pragues homeboy David Cerney, has absurdist sculpture all over town. Most of it is bronze. The little bit from the Swedish Embassy is anomatronic, forever running.
Tabor, Czech Republic (Felt-tip Pen)
Tabor, Czech Republic, from the old gate tower.
August 9, 2016 1:15 pm
Snapshot Cafe (watercolor 14 x 23) $600
Despite the lack of canals and only a single bicycle, this is Amsterdam on a summer evening. But it could be anyone of a number of European street scenes.
The title is a bit of a pun. I painted the picture from a series of snapshots, and girls in the foreground are sharing a snapshot. I hope the atmospheric nature of the painting has little to do with snapshots.
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August 5, 2016 4:06 pm
Dreaming of Prague (watercolor 16 x 21) SOLD
Impressionists view of the Saint Charles Bridge at night.
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August 2, 2016 2:47 pm
Pillars of the Humanities (watercolor 17 x 21) $600
This is my first painting since returning from our month long odyssey to Europe. I began with the Pantheon in Paris. I made the cream colored columns vibrant to match the intellectual vibrancy of the persons buried in the crypt: Voltaire, Victor Hugo, Emile Zola, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Louis Braille, Pierre Curie, Marie Curie, Alexandre Dumas.
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February 28, 2016 6:47 pm
Cowboy in Chinatown (watercolor and gouache 16 x 22) $600
There is still a Chinatown in Victoria, B.C., but it’s only a few blocks long now. The Fantan Cafe dominates the street. It’s still a fun and colorful place to visit. The entrance arch remains, and they still hang Chinese lanterns.
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February 15, 2016 12:36 pm
Diocletian Courtyard (watercolor 13 x 18) $500
This is an upward view of the courtyard behind the Diocletian Baths currently the Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri, in Rome.
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February 14, 2016 5:02 pm
Rafael's Pillar (watercolor 13 x 13) $300
A stylized repainting of a detail from one of Rafael’s frescoes at the Vatican. It was fun to re-imagine, but hardly an improvement on the original.
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February 13, 2016 6:41 pm
Studio Beatrice, 230 NW 6th, Corvallis, Oregon
I spent Friday morning setting up for a show at Beatrice Rubenfeld’s new gallery in downtown Corvallis, Oregon. Her gallery is set in a 1910 home which still has the original molding and picture rails. It’s a charming setting, and hanging the show was like playing with a giant doll house. My paintings fill the former the dining room and parlor. My polymer clay dragons have found a home in the built-in china cabinet. Beatrice Rubenfeld and other local artists’ work occupy the two bedrooms.
Beatrice’s gallery is open Fridays from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm and by appointment. My show runs from February 12th through March 11th. There will be an reception Thursday, February 18th, from 4:00-8:00 pm during the Corvallis Art Walk. Marshall Adams will entertain us with musical surprises. And of course there will be wine and food.
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"Three Luccan Towers" (17 x 19 watercolor) $500
Another Italian painting, this time of Lucca. The view is from a window in yet a fourth tower. I will have to paint the tower we climbed. The oak trees growing from it’s roof give it a surreal feel.
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November 9, 2015 12:31 pm
Evening at the Louvre (watercolor 14 x 22) $500
The glass pyramid as seen through one of the Louvre’s arches.
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October 24, 2015 2:47 pm
City Portal (12 x 22 watercolor) $500
The Art Institute of Chicago again, this time from the inside. While my daughter gift shopped, I took a whole series of photographs of the two doors to Michigan Ave. The great doors with their iconic lamps and the people silhouetted in front fascinated me.
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September 26, 2015 10:49 am
Just Before the Museum Opens (watercolor 17 x 22) $600
I love city light. The shafts of light created by openings in the tall buildings, the reflectivity of building and pavement, and the flat surfaces for shadows all lead to one thing—drama.
This particular drama is the long shadows and the warm glow of a Chicago winter morning. The crowd is up early and waiting for The Art Institute of Chicago to open up. The crowd and bus hide one lion, but the other can be seen peeking out from behind the traffic light.
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September 22, 2015 11:50 am
Downtown Spring Outing (watercolor 15 x 23) $500
I took my daughter college looking this Spring. As part of that trip we got to stay a couple nights in downtown Chicago. This is Wabash Avenue just North of Adams and about a block from The Art Institute of Chicago. The mother and child are just passing Palmer House Hotel. A light snow had just melted and by our Oregon standards it was nippy.
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January 7, 2015 2:35 pm
December 31, 2014 4:25 pm
Village Stairs (19 x 12 watercolor) SOLD
This is a back “street” in Riomaggiore where the streets are not only likely to be too small for cars, but may include staircases. I loved the light at the end of the tunnel effect and the contract between the brightly painted wall and the natural stone stairs. The woman was both beautiful and big.
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December 28, 2014 5:18 pm
Lucca Cafe, (watercolor 13 x 17) $400
Cafe in Lucca, Italy, just before lunch.
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5:15 pm
Italian Heat is not my first attempt at that painting. It is the second. I made several mistakes with the first painting, most of them having to to with composition. I left too many people from my reference photos in the image, and that took away from the real subject, the biking couple at the end of the street. Having reached the conclusion that the painting was a failure, I played around with photos the spoiled painting before sketching out the second version which ended up in the blog entry below.
That left me with a poor complicated painting with great color but no real focus. So I set the failed painting aside for a while. Then a few weeks later, I got out the mat corners (“L” shaped pieces of mat board used for visual cropping) and singled out the two bicyclists. The result is Florence Bikers.
Florence Bikers (9 x 16 watercolor) SOLD
Looking at the remainder on the contained yet another painting:
Three Italians, (9 x 21 watercolor) sold
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September 25, 2014 7:24 am
Italian Heat (watercolor 15 x 22) SOLD
We visited Florence in the heat of summer. The shady narrow streets opening up into white hot plazas continues to fascinate me. Couples biking over the rough stone streets had their own heat.
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September 24, 2014 8:39 am
Pure Nostalgia (watercolor 15 x 27) $550
I’ve been busy putting together paintings for my Art in the Valley show, Bicycles. I had been eying the bikes in front of South Salem Cycleworks for some time. The show just gave me an excuse to stop and photograph them in the early morning sun. I arrived early as they were just putting the bikes outside. The young man setting up the bikes couldn’t have been more helpful, setting out out this bike just so I could photograph it.
With it’s lovely curves and built in light, this bike really is pure nostalgia. I wanted the painting to have the same 1950s vintage feel as the bicycle.
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September 23, 2014 12:38 pm
Bike Tour (watercolor 18 x 12) $200
Rather more abstract than I usually go, but I like it. This is a Florence bicycle tour group as seen from the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, Italy.
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September 8, 2014 6:24 am
