November Snow.....(both SOLD)

 

2 recent works. The drawing is of November snow, though it seems like it would be deep winter. The painting shows the last bits of snow after a quick one day melt.

Hallowe'en Rain, Lost Dog Hill (SOLD)

11 x 15 pencils on paper....a steady, persistent rain as October turns.....

Fox Hill, Second Thaw, January

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I couldn't post for a long while because blogger wouldn't let me add pictures....glad they fixed that! The start of the second January thaw....within a few days all the snow would be gone...again! 11 x 15, acrylic and pencil on archival paper.

Snow Day, December 29

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....December 29...a light but steady snow fell all day. I had only about 10 seconds to try and diagram the motif before my ballpoint either froze or quit working on paper made wet by the snow.

This is a collage painting....large glued shapes from acrylic painted papers in the first stages, with acrylic in-painting and some pencil work overtop. The mood established seems pretty close to what the day felt like.

Thank you, Catherine Kehoe!

Catherine Kehoe sent along these wonderful photos of recent work she purchased from me. I absolutely love how she presented the pieces and how great they look in her beautiful home!

Catherine is an outstanding artist and teacher. I am constantly looking through her various online material as inspiration for myself and my students.

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....In the Lovely Home of Kim Frohsin

Many thanks to the wonderful San Francisco artist, Kim Frohsin, represented by Paul Thiebaud Gallery and many other important galleries, for sending me this great image of one of my paintings in her beautiful home. I love the way Kim goes about making her art so it's doubly inspirational to see my piece in her environment.

Presentation of Small Paintings

Many thanks to Jill Harris for sending along these pictures showing how she framed and presented a grouping of my landscape paintings in her lovely home. She shows an interesting way of using a larger space to present smaller works as one unit. Thank you Jill! I really enjoy seeing how people present and place the work.

A Wonderful Home!

A big thank you to Kate Lottridge for sending along a photo showing how she framed and presented two of my paintings in her absolutely gorgeous home! It warms my heart to see how the paintings travel....and these two pieces have landed in paradise.

Lake Swimmer

Another little collage completed yesterday afternoon.....a swimmer....memory of a time at a northern lake.


I'd like to thank JORDAN DELOACH for doing a very nice feature about me on her design blog THE WEEKEND DESIGN....An exploration of design and the world of curiosities.


..... a good place to go for all things related to design and home decor.....Jordan puts interesting and unexpected things together.

June 26th

I was walking by the field adjacent to me....a place I don't often walk. It was evening and there was much mist in the air, and the foreground field was a yellow that didn't seem appropriate for this time of year....I don't know what the crop is. Just the relationship of the yellow, grey of the sky and dark of the trees (I wrote black on the diagram) created a sensation. I diagrammed it quickly. It was all blended more than this...intermingling with lots of thick air.

It helps to make these little diagrams. I never know how I will work....perhaps from a photo, perhaps from a more complete and complex sketch, or maybe from a chicken scratch like this....but only if the memory is strong enough to hold the image over a few hours or a night.

Art on the Move

Many Thanks to Ann Yu for sending photos of my little fridge magnets and small paintings in her Los Angeles home. I love seeing how people present the work and how they place it in their environment....it makes the whole process seems more alive and meaningful. I get a real thrill out of such photos!