Foxgloves (12 x 15 India Ink) available
Yes I have a visual mind and yes the results can be silly.
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March 16, 2021 4:37 pm
4:19 pm
Canadian Brass Geese (11 x 14 India Ink) available
Horn-Necked Goose (12 x 15 India Ink) available
I hear the sound of geese returning and I imagine something like these.
3:56 pm
I Keep Him in My Heart (9 x 12 India ink) available
February 10, 2021 12:26 pm
Green Traveler or Silver Back (India Ink 11 x 14) available
We say turtles and tortoises, carry their homes on their backs. In this case, the home is a travel trailer. Don’t ask me why he decided to take on a tree as a passenger, it was just meant to be. I think they are very happy together and headed for adventures.
11:55 am
Bird Brain (India Ink 14 x 16) available
I have a very visual mind. When someone says “bird brain,” I’m apt to see something like this. But I particularly liked this visual pun, because it hints at the intelligence of birds, which is often as great or greater than mammals with similar lifestyles. Ironically, owls are not particularly bright birds, but crows, hawks, and ravens are.
February 9, 2021 5:45 pm
Urban Chimera (India Ink 19 x 16) Available.
I think of this as a chimera, but given all of the city equipment, I guess he’s a little bit of a cyborg too.
5:23 pm
Canine Nemesis (Technical Pen 12 x 12) Available
Our dog thinks the vacuum cleaner is public enemy number one. This is how I think she sees it.
October 20, 2020 11:14 am
Counting Sheep (pen and ink 11 x 11) available
My daughter says my sheep is smug–smug because he can count. Let him be smug, as long as he, not me, does the midnight counting.
June 2, 2020 6:01 pm
The Whale Titanic (archival pen 10 x 14) sold
The Titanic was whale of a ship. This Titanic is a whale and unlike the original, it’s meant to dive.
May 14, 2020 5:01 pm
The Raven Tree (2 x 21 archival pen) Available
When I look at pines I often see things in the branches the way other people see things in the clouds. From there to a tree of ravens wasn’t much of a stretch.
Fine art prints are available. I’ve also digital manipulated the tree so as to place it on a couple different backgrounds for printing. Those images can be seen and purchased here.“>here .
October 25, 2012 3:23 pm
Paint Tube Hill (16 x 22 watercolor) Available
Realistic paintings are representations of three dimensional space on a two dimensional surface. This painting plays with that concept by depicting three dimensional objects like paint tubes and brushes resting on a two dimensional painting. But of course the tubes and brushes are also two dimensional representations of three dimensional space.
October 20, 2012 12:48 pm
Pygmalion Joins the Band, (16 x 22 watercolor)
When painting Flugel and Friends, I was struck by the way in which the unfinished the flugelhorn appeared ultra three dimensional. It just wanted to hover above the paper. It took some effort playing with the shadow to get it lay down and behave itself. But I was struck by how beautiful the floating horn was.
Flugle and Friends In Progress
The experience got me to thinking about the trick of making the flat paper look three dimensional and reminded me of M.C. Escher’s various perspective games playing with this concept. So I decided to play around with the idea a little within a painting in a painting.
The process has been fun, but very meta. I painted Pygmalion Joins the Band, with the very brush depicted in the painting with palette shown, using the paints in the tubes I painted. If you paint on block pads, you may recognize the border of the pad cover peaking out from under the painting in a painting. The most challenging part of the painting turned out to be depicting paint on the plastic palette and making it look like paint on plastic rather than paint of paper. I had the most fun painting the tubes and now plotting excuses to paint them again.
