Queen of Needles

 

●Queen of Needles
8 x 8 Oil on Canvas 

Dames Point

This is kind of a fanciful mash up of images and memories of this bridge into Jacksonville that we drive over at least a couple of times a month.  It never fails to be interesting.  

Dames Point
36 x 48 Oil on Canvas 

 

Palace Saloon

Fernandina Beach is home to Florida's oldest operating tavern, The Palace Saloon.  I don't usually paint a lot of local scenes but something about the light on it that day I walked by and took this photo just caught my eye.  

● The Palace
12 x 12 Oil on Canvas 

Memories of Savannah

When we were in Savannah a few years ago I really liked this sign and took a few photos thinking I might do something with it in the future.  I pulled it out and finally got around to painting it and hope someday to have a cocktail there.  

● Sorry Charlie's
12 x 12 Oil on Canvas 

 

Waiting for Charlie

● Waiting For Charlie
 8 x 8 Oil on Canvas 

 

Another Amaryllis from the Garden

 I love the way I can grow Amaryllis outside in the yard with little to no effort here.  This pinkish colored one popped up this year and bloomed spectacularly. 

●Amaryllis
8 x 8 oil on Canvas 

Bend

Bend
16 x 20 Oil on Canvas 

 

Milan

I saw this interesting platn in the botanical garden in Milan and have been trying to identify it since.  It appears to be some type of euphorbia but I haven't seen an exact match yet.  

Milan
20 x 20 Oil on canvas 

Another Mill....

I continue to find the local industrial landscapes fascinating as they butt up against the beautiful natural environments here in NE Florida.  

Steam
40 x 30 Oil on Canvas 

 

Glide

 Glide, 3.5 x 5.5, six color Moku Hanga print on Bamboo paper. The experiments continue. I used a piece of 1/4 inch birch plywood I had laying around and carved on both sides for this two block reduction print. Things learned: birch ply does not cut as easily or hold line as well as shina, 1/4" ply is too thin to use both sides and warped badly, and the bamboo paper I used (a thick card stock), did not take the ink as well as the rice papers. The learning continues... 

This is a 6 color, 2 block Moku Hanga print.  I am teaching myself that process and this is the first testing of the printing method and materials.  

Summer Feeling

 It has been extremely hot here in NE Florida this year and having to spend so much time inside has the effect of time just drifting by like the lilies in a pond.  

Drift
24 x 36 Oil on Canvas on birch panel 

November Walk on the Greenway

I am still working from reference photos taken last winter while walking on the greenway.  The color and light changes so dramatically from week to week that even the same part of the creek will look incredibly different.    This was from a walk in late November under a grey and cloudy sky.  

November Greenway 
18 x 24 Oil on Canvas 

 

More Neighborhood Birds of Paradise

This stand of Bird of Paradise had been on a street corner in our neighborhood for years producing magnificent blooms each season.  This is from the last set of photos I took of the plant before the new owners had it removed and replaced with grass.  I have since put in my own plant and hope to see my own "squadron" of blooms on it after it establishes.  

In Flight
30 x 20 Oil on Canvas 

February

 

February
12 x 12 Oil on Canvas 

Winter Colors

This painting is one that came out of recent walks on the greenway here with my dog Marlowe.  

●Winter Colors 
12 x 24 Oil on canvas 

Rio Grande Gorge #2

 

Rio Grande Gorge #2
6 1/2 x 6 1/2 
10 color reduction linocut

Color 6 & 7 

Color 8

Color 3, 4 , 5 

Color 1 & 2

Rio Grande Reduction Print

As I continue exploring the use of color in reduction linocut printing I have just completed a 2 print series on the Rio Grande Gorge.  This is print 1 of a limited edition of 14.  The color progression prints are below the final product. 

Rio Grande Gorge #1
6.5 x 6.5 Reduction Linocut

Colors 6 & 7

Color 5

Color 4

   

Colors 2 & 3

Color 1

 

More from the Apalachicola waterfront

 

●Shrimp...Fish...Oysters
12 x 24 Oil on canvas 

Re-Visiting Colorado

 Another take on the scenic drive up mountain from Durango to Ouray during the fall. 

 •Going Up

30 x 40 Oil on Canvas 

Oyster Docks in Apalachicola

In one of our last excursions around Florida before Covid we stayed in Apalachicola.   I have been looking at these images for a while now and just got the urge to put it on canvas.  This was from photos I took down at the old Oyster docks in town.  I think at the time it was still in business and hope they are still processing the oyster catch there today.  

 ●Apalachicola
12 x 12 Oil on Canvas 

 

Big Talbot Island

This a scene from a walk on Big Talbot Island after winter storms had re-shaped it's dune last year.

Big Talbot
12 x 24 Oil on Canvas 

 

Monday Ride through Fort Clinch

Some friends who ride with the island bike group commissioned me to paint a view of the canopy road in Fort Clinch for their new house.  The Amelia Island bike group rides this at least twice a week as part of their regular routes.  The sun and shadows are ever changing and mysterious on that stretch of road and there is always something new to stop and look at.  

●Monday Ride
30 x 40 Oil on Canvas 

 

Egan's Creek January Colors

I am still getting warmed up on painting the local landscape for a commission.  This is from a photo I took while walking the greenway here last winter.  That landscape is a constantly changing color palette and on this day it had a lot of lavender and mauve tones in the grasses. 

●Egan's Creek - January
12 x 12 Oil on Canvas 

 

Littoral

One of the things I see when we are driving along the river on Hecksher Drive, are fleeting glimpses of the navy's littoral combat ship.  They appear off in the distance at the Mayport Naval station and sometimes closer in while being worked on at BAE.  Ships at BAE are often shrouded in a white plastic covering over large parts which gives them a very sculptural look, as if they weren't quite fully carved.  Anyway, this is an impression from those sightings.

• Littoral

36 x 36 Oil on Canvas