Parrot Tulips

 

 

Parrot Tulips    2014

30 x 22 Watercolor

(Commissioned work - Sold)



Art Session at the Noble School

My sister in law and her business partner have a school for middle and high school age students with special needs and she asked me to give an art class for the group.  I have never taught anything before so this was a both challenging and fun.  I put together an introduction to watercolors with the project below. 

 

To see the students work go to the Noble School Facebook page at:  https://www.facebook.com/TheNobleSchool

Crater Lake

Blue Shade, Crater Lake Oregon

20 x 16 Oil on Canvas

2014

Cannas at the Cummer

These cannas were some of the last flowers blooming at the Cummer gardens this fall.  They looked to me as if they were reaching up for the last of warm midday sun that day.

Reaching

36 x 20 Oil on Canvas

2014  SOLD

Summer Flowers for a cold January

Another watercolor of flowers seen last summer.  These petunias were hanging on the fence around Rita's deck in Sibley's Cove Newfoundland.  With the sun shining on them they looked like velvet glowing on the post.   I spent yesterday afternoon here on the island pulling out all the flowers and other plants that were zapped by a hard freeze last week.  The cheerful look of these petunias has got me thinking of all the new possibilities for the replanting this spring.

On the Fence

21 x 15 Watercolor on 140 lb Arches

2014



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