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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.
Chimney Rock (watercolor 9 x 12) available
Tooth, Badlands National Park (watercolor 9 x 12) available
This paintings reach far back into my photo file to an auto trip from Nebraska home to Oregon some ten years ago. These two paintings are of little outcrops in Badlands National Park, South Dakota.
Park Giant (watercolor 17 x 23) Available
Portrait of an imposing pine tree in the Salem, Oregon Pioneer Cemetery.
Three Trees in a Stony Landscape (alcohol ink 5 x 7) $50.00
Another fantasy alcohol ink landscape.
Harbor Abstract II (17 x 23 watercolor) Available
A harbor existing only in my teeming brain.
Shadows Over the Hilltop (watercolor 10 x 15) available
Shadows on the hillside above Croisan Creek, Salem, Oregon.
Breaking Out: Empty Nest IV (watercolor 18 x 21) Available
Another painting based on my empty nest.
Birth of Venus One (18 x 24 watercolor) Available
Birth of Venus Two, (18 x 24 watercolor) Available
Botticelli’s Birth of Venus is stunning, but it never captured the delivery part of birth for me. Botticelli’s Venus is serene. She is arriving at the shore, the messy birth process long behind her. My Venuses are actually in the process of emerging from the sea foam.
The Heart of Salamanca (watercolor 19 x 23) Available
This is early morning on the Plaza Mayor in Salamanca, Spain. In a couple hours the Plaza will be full of umbrella tables. But right now the coffee drinkers are inside enjoying the warmth.
Trujillo Cathedral (watercolor 10 x 22) Available
This is the cathedral in Trujillo, Spain, also known as “Our Lady of Peace.” I’ve painted her from the side, as a neighbor might walk to her. But she presides over Trujillo’s Plaza Mayor.
The Yellow Church (watercolor 16 x 23) Available
This is the Plaza Mayor in the village of Zahara, Cadiz Province, Spain. The village is one of the more picturesque pueblos blancos in Andulacia. The church I’ve painted is known as the Torre del Reloj (Yellow Tower), and it dominates the square.
Over the Rooftops (watercolor 10 x 17) Available
Caceres, Spain as seen from the cathedral roof.
Break-time Caceres (watercolor 11 x 13) Sold
This is old town Caceres.
This painting has sold, but you can still purchase a fine art print.
Just Before the Museum Opens (watercolor 17 x 22) Available
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.
Top of Milan (watercolor 14 x 22) SOLD
When we Armitages travel, we climb things–towers, monuments, mountains, cathedrals, arches– we generally go up for the purpose of looking down. We are never disappointed. We weren’t disappointed in Milan. But the Milan Cathedral rooftop is different. The rooftop itself is an amazing place to be. It would be an amazing place were it on the ground floor. Here is my first painting of the marble forest that lives atop the Milan Duomo.
Between Amusements (17 x 21 watercolor) Available
For the last four years I’ve been taking pictures of the Oregon State Fair confident that with all those people and colors there must be a good painting in there somewhere. Four years of pictures with images taken from four different photos and I finally have one.
See my work in Painters Academics’ For the Love of Art,
sponsored by Solo Exhibition
Spinning Tales (13 x 19 watercolor) SOLD
Pilgrims and the Gate (watercolor 15 x 20) SOLD
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.
