Tangle

Tangle

20 x 15 Watercolor on 140lb Arches

2013

 

Magnolia time

 

 

 

 

 

From a bike ride around the island during the bloom season.  The blossom was just peeking out of the leaves.

 

 

Magnolia study 8 x 8

Oil on canvas 2013   SOLD

 

 



Blue Iris from Austin

There are a lot of flowers that I used to grow before moving to Florida that I can't seem to get working in the garden here.  Iris are probably one of the flowers I miss having the most, so I tend to photograph and paint them a lot when we travel.  This blue iris was at the botanical garden in Austin Texas.

Blue Iris 

14 x 11 Oil on Canvas  2013

After the Rains

Each spring we get to see a wild show of yellow cactus blossoms on the beach road at Fort Clinch after the rain.  I have a collection of photos taken over the past few years from bike riding out that way but this is the first painting from those images.   Ironically as often as we are in the southwest it is in Florida that the cactus flowers captured my attention.

After the Rains

24 x 18 Oil on archival linen panel

2013

Smoke and Canyons

While we were at the north rim last year smoke from the wildfires in Idaho would tint and blanket the canyon depending on the wind.   I am still experimenting with capturing those canyons, this time in watercolor.

Canyon Study 2013

15 1/2 x 19 1/2 Watercolor

Smoke on the Canyon 2013

24 x 36 Watercolor    Sold



More birds

The white bird of paradise in my back garden has bloomed in two cycles this year with huge flowers.  I have taken photos practically all summer of those plants and now need to get painting....
This is the first of what has come from this year's bloom

 



●Bird Song  2013

30 x 20 oil on canvas

Small Oil Studies

 

Nasturtium Study 2013

8 x 8 Oil on canvas

 

Greenway Study 1  2013

8 x 8 Oil on Canvas

Greenway Study 2  2013

8 x 8 Oil on Canvas

Yellow Flowers for the End of Summer

Summer is hanging on here in NE Florida and the end of our local sunflower crop is in sight.  I have been working in watercolor exploring the different yellows that can come through two hues I have in the paintbox.   These two flowers are on the opposite ends of the spectrum as far as intensity of color so it was challenging to tone down for the hollyhocks after painting the sunflowers. 

August Gold  2013

20 x 16 watercolor on

300 lb Fabriano Artistico

Hollyhocks 2013

19 x 15 Watercolor on

140 lb Arches



Bandolier National Monument

One of my favorite New Mexico hikes, Bandolier National Monument 

Bandolier

20 x 16 Watercolor on 140 lb Arches

2013

Marsh Glow

A while ago I picked up some iridescent watercolors that were donated to the IAA.  I hadn't really played around with them much but yesterday ran across them in the studio and decided to see what I could do with them.  This painting is adapted from a sketch that was in one of my sketchbooks from a couple of years ago.  I was trying to get that golden, late afternoon haze that sometimes appears over the greenway marsh.  The paints give a very faint sparkle to the background and some of the highlight areas.  Unfortunately my point and shoot photography doesn't capture that paint quality.

Marsh Glow

12 x 20 Watercolor on 140lb Arches Paper

2013

 

More Hibiscus

Thanks to everyone who came out to the opening of the Wednesday Oil Painters show last night.  If you haven't seen the show, stop in at First Coast Community bank and go upstairs to their gallery area anytime the bank is open. 

Here is my latest painting for oils.  The hibiscus in the garden stores this year have been particularly varied and beautiful.  These blooms caught my eye last month and even though I didn't have any place to plant them I thought I would just bring them home on canvas.

Untitled

Red Star Hibiscus

30 x 20 Oil on Canvas

2013  SOLD

More Canyons and Desert

 

River Path Zion

24 x 18 Oil on Canvas

2013

 

On the Road From Hell's Backbone

12 x 20 Watercolor on 140 lb Arches

2013