Wood's Edge (watercolor 16 x 21) available
We often hike in the woods below Sprague High School. This is the upper entrance to the trail. Lit from behind, the shadows are an invitation to walk in the woods.
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October 10, 2020 2:23 pm
January 11, 2020 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 6, 2018 5:59 pm
Perhaps Persephone (watercolor 16 x 22) SOLD
Initially, this painting was inspired by a bird’s nest left over from last Spring. Looking at the nest, the woman with bird’s nest hair and the whitewater dress rising from the ground just came to me. She became Persephone as painted her. Now she is drowsily sinking back into the earth before her return to Hades and the Underworld. She’ll be back in the Spring.
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December 30, 2017 3:02 pm
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November 30, 2017 6:46 pm
Foggy Path (14 x 22 watercolor on paper) SOLD
Another one that sold before I could post it. Prints are available at Pixels.
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.
This painting has sold, but you can still purchase a fine art print.
August 5, 2010 4:17 pm
Autumn Landscape of the Mind (pastel 12 x 17) SOLD
This pastel is based loosely on a photo I took just east of Tetons National Park in Wyoming. The early morning light made the grass glow almost yellow against the darker hills. I drove my family slightly batty stopping the car over and over to take yet another picture of light on the hills. I was actually pleased when when had to wait twenty minutes twice for construction. I liked this view in particular because of the way the beckons you in.
But my pastel could hardly feel less like early Wyoming summer. It seems we’ve never quite gotten summer here in Oregon this year and my mind has moved right along to fall. So I went where my mind is, and left June behind, converting dying pines into turning foliage and taking the grass even further yellow. But I left the morning light.
Working on the rough side of peach colored Canson Mi-Teintes I used almost entirely soft pastels. Only the foreground grass went in in hard pastel. The shadows in the grass are more soft pastel.
The blues, greens and oranges came very naturally. I added a few hints of purple in the shadows to set of the yellow grass.
This painting has sold, but you may purchase a print through my gallery at Fine Art America.
