Cherry Reflections – Daily Painting
Monday, August 6th, 2007“Cherry Reflections” – 8 x 10 oil on canvas – Here’s a detail of the painting. Actual size of this cherry is about 1 3/4″ across. Click to enlarge.
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Illo Friday – Citrus
Monday, May 14th, 2007“Twin Oranges” – 6 x 8 – oil on canvas panel, mounted on hardboard – SOLD These small oranges were spotted at the Old Mill in San Marino, home of the California Art Club. I loved the way they were shining in the sun, so reminiscent, to me, of the California I remember from my [...]
Communicating Pairs – Illustration Friday
Tuesday, February 27th, 2007“Communicating Pairs” 9″ x 7 3/4″ Watercolor and mixed media on board $150 + shipping … Purchase from the artist For Illustration Friday on the theme of “Communication.”
Illo Friday “Clear” – Wild Stream
Wednesday, November 8th, 2006SOLD “Wild Stream” 7.5″ x 11″ Watercolor on 140# paper Clean, clear, water – what a precious resource. Can anything match it for clarity and freshness? I did this painting today just for fun for some water practice, using a very limited palette of two blues, a red and a yellow. That’s about it. Oh, [...]
Fields of Gold
Sunday, September 17th, 200611″ x 11″ Mixed media, watercolor and pastel. Unframed. SOLD Well, I have finally decided to take the plunge and list something on eBay. Thanks to all the friends who have written me and given me the push to make it happen. Prompted in part by the recent Illustration Friday theme of Farm, which I [...]
Watercolormelon
Thursday, August 3rd, 2006Well, this is a multipurpose painting. First, it’s for Illustration Friday’s theme of “Clean” – I think I cleaned out that melon pretty well. Secondly, it’s for Wet Canvas’s 4th “Art From Life” scavenger hunt. This item is “my breakfast.” It’s a ‘draw a fruit’ for Everyday Matters, too. Mostly it was an excuse to [...]
Illo Friday – Robot
Monday, April 24th, 2006Robots don’t work all the time, you know. Sometimes they go for walks in the woods with their kids. And pick berries and stuff. So, if you’re camping and you see glowing red eyes in the bushes … just remember, it might not be bobcats …
Spotted Nubian – Illo Friday
Wednesday, April 19th, 2006Click to enlarge I got busy this week and missed the chance to do something for Illustration Friday. So here’s something done earlier this year that wasn’t used for any previous project … If you’re a regular reader, you know that I very seldom do any graphite drawing. I don’t have any negative feelings about [...]
A nest in the west – Illo Friday Spring
Tuesday, March 28th, 2006For more current spring paintings from my journals … click here . Last springtime, a finch family came looking for nesting quarters and decided that the eaves were not nearly as hospitable as one of my hanging Boston ferns. I saw the frantic search for twigs and grasses, the constant flying to and fro of [...]
Meet the Beetles – Illo Friday
Tuesday, March 7th, 2006These beetles are all from the Milwaukee Public Museum collection, which I had the pleasure of seeing last year. I like all kinds of nature topics, even somewhat creepy ones. The designs of nature have inspired artists from the beginning of man’s history; no wonder they still continue to fascinate. Can’t you just see a [...]
