A Mill for Kathy

My sister had a window closed in for an addition on her house and needed something to fill the wall.  She wanted an industrial abstract with a lot of color so.....

A Mill for Kathy
36" x 48" Oil on canvas 

The Greenway in Winter

I just put this one in the gallery.  The colors of the greenway vary so much in the different seasons that every time I look back at photos I seem to find one I need to paint.  

Winter Colors on Egans Creek
24" x 30" oill  on canvas

 

Thinking of New Mexico

As the fires threaten communities in New Mexico and Colorado, I thought of the river flowing on the way to Taos.  I am working from a series of rough sketches to loosen up a bit and this one is from photos I have taken and a remembered image between Santa Fe and Taos.

Flow
36 x 24 oil on canvas 

 

Upstream

 Thinking of all the people near the Frijoles fire and hoping it is contained soon.  This is from past trips along the river heading to Taos after visiting Chimayo for chile.  

Upstream
12 x 12 oil on panel 

Revisions

I just can't help making changes to a painting that I was never completely happy with. If it hangs around the studio long enough it will be revisited....

Storm Over the Marsh (revisited)
12 x 12 oil on canvas 

 

Afternoon Storm Boiling Up
20 x 16 Oil on canvas 

Cruising Cumberland Island

 We recently took the "pirate cruise" with friends around the Amelia River and the creeks of Cumberland Island.  It was a bit overcast and we just beat the thunderstorm back to town.  This painting is from references I took that stormy evening before the real clouds rolled in.

●Cumberland Shore
20" x 24" oil on canvas

Marsh Light

 The light on the marsh creek here changes colors hourly some days and the evening can bring soft pastels to the sky.  

Evening Light on the Marsh
12" x 12" oil on canvas 

Playing with Paint

 I am still ignoring the large blank canvas on my easel and playing with some paper I found in the studio.  In Bordeaux, out in the country there were winding roads with roundabout kind of intersections in the chateaux areas.  I imagined they would look something like this from above.

Byways
30 x 22 oil on handmade cotton paper

Colorado on My Mind

 I have been trying to get back into the studio work after traveling and have been playing around with some handmade cotton paper I had in my stash.  This is a mixed media painting using ink, watercolor, acylic and finally oil.   The image is from remembering a drive up Red Mountain on the way to Ouray  Colorado on a fall day.  

Winding Up Red Mountain
22" x 30"  Mixed Media on 
handmade cotton paper

Hoping for Hummingbirds

Last year we had hummingbirds visit our red canna lily plants and I am hoping to see them return again this fall.  The cannas are up and blooming so hopes are high!  UPDATE they have arrived!

●Ruby
11 color handprinted 
linocut reduction 4" x 6"

Yankee Girl Mine

 On the road from Durango to Ouray there is an iconic mine, Yankee Girl.  

Yankee Girl Mine
Handprinted 15 color reduction
linocut, 6.5" x 6.5"

Golden Marsh

 

●Golden Marsh
"8 x 8" Oil on Canvas