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The Pen is Mightier Than the Quill (16 x 16 ink) SOLD
Like most of my surreal drawings, the title of this little piece came first. It’s only after I’d played around with the possibilities for awhile that this little hedgehog came to have ink squirting out of his fountain pens.
A Murder of Crows (India Ink 11 x 14) available
Another visual pun.
Foxgloves (12 x 15 India Ink) available
Yes I have a visual mind and yes the results can be silly.
Limited Edition Digitally altered prints: 11 x 14 $75 unframed.
Fox Gloves on Lavender (digitally altered pen and ink 11 x 14) $75 unframed
I hear the sound of geese returning and I imagine something like these.
Canadian Brass Geese (11 x 14 India Ink) available
Horn-Necked Goose (12 x 15 India Ink) $600 framed; $500 unframed
Green Traveler or Silver Back (India Ink 11 x 14) available
Digitally Altered Limited Edition Prints:
Green Traveler on 60's Blue (digitally altered pen and ink) 11 x 14 $75
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.
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.
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.
Wings From Home: Empty Nest III (watercolor 23 x 17) sold
Another painting based on the empty nest I found in our yard.
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.
This painting has sold, but you can still purchase a fine art print.
Dutch (16 x 20 Collage) available
We saw this watchful dog looking out of a canal house in Akmaar. He just demanded to be immortalized in collage.
Chinese Dragon (polymer clay) Sold
I’ll be at the Oregon State Fair in the Artisan Village (located by C Gate at the bottom of the chair lift) demonstrating polymer clay and watercolors from 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. from now through Labor Day. I have polymer clay animals, kaleidoscopes, barrettes, pillboxes, bookmarks etc. for sale as well as original watercolors and watercolor prints. Come see my latest paintings and meet my dragons.
Tabby's Favorite Window (11 x 14 watercolor on clayboard) Available
I often get asked at art fairs how long it takes to paint one of my paintings. It’s an unanswerable question. Some paintings take days and even repeated attempts each taking days. Some paintings just fall out of the brush in minutes. This painting just fell out of the brush. And that despite being painted at the State Fair as a demo.
The reference photo is a picture I took of a girl friend’s cat some years ago. I don’t often paint animals, but my gallery is having a group “critters” show and so I browsed my old photos looking for a suitable cat, and this tabby popped up. Now that I’ve done him, I rather like him. He will be on display at Art in the Valley all this September.
Beach Walk (watercolor 5 x 7) SOLD
This another painting of the beach at Brookings.
I just had to do one of the dogs. Dogs and beaches go together. So much to see. So much to smell. So many, many other dogs.
This older dog wasn’t tugging too hard, but he was strongly encouraging his person to walk faster. I want to see. I want to run. I want to go. I want to do.
I used my typical beach palette: burnt sienna, raw sienna, phthalo blue, cobalt blue. I masked the waves before painting to preserve the whites. Painted last Wednesday at Art in the Valley, Corvallas, Oregon.
Three Dog Afternoon (5 x 7) SOLD
This little painting is of three dogs we watched playing on the beach last February. As far as I could tell they all belonged to different groups of people, but they were very happy to meet each other. I took a number of photos of them and will probably make a larger painting from one of those photos later. This little painting is just the right size for a postcard.
My favorite palette again: burnt sienna, cobalt blue and yellow ocher.
