Canna Dreams

Dreaming of adding some yellow cannas to the gardens....

Canna Dreams
12 x 12 Oil on Canvas 

Garden Stars

I planted Nasturtium seeds last year about this time in a large clay pot.   They bloomed but quickly got  burnt out in the heat so I just cut them back and left them in.  They came back this fall and have been blooming and climbing like crazy so I just had to paint them before the summer heat gets them again. 

●Nasturtium Study
12 x 12 Oil on Canvas 

Strolling Around Town

This is not the best photo as I was taking pictures and trying to keep an eye on the Skink that has taken up residence on the studio porch at the same time.....

●Wicked Good!
14 x 11 Oil on Canvas 

Jaxport

•Port Study
12 x 12 Oil on Canvas 

Just for Fun

I was thinking of the line from the Jean Cocteau poem "On The Waves".....

●Springtime at the Bottom of the Sea
17 x 30 Watercolor and mixed media on Paper

Mill and Bridge Study

Fragments
12 x 12 Oil on Canvas 

Cranes at JaxPort

Another 12 x 12 study of the cranes at JaxPort.  The wheel structures are cable reels in case you are wondering like I was...

JaxPort Study
12 x 12 Oil on Canvas

Top of the Trail

If you climb the entire trail at Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument you will get this view looking down on the hoo-doos and over at the Sandia Mountains.  This is another of the 12 x 12 paintings for the series.  

●Top of the Trail
12 x 12 Oil on Canvas 

Red Mill

●Red Mill
60  x 40 Oil on Canvas 

Winter work for a cold day

●Winter Dunes at Big Talbot
12 x 12 Oil on Canvas 

Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks

I have a show in October as the artist of the month at the Island Art Association gallery.  The space is not large so I am working on a series of 12 x 12 canvases for that show (12 to the 3rd power).  Right now it is looking kind of bi-polar with half landscapes and half abstractions of the mills/bridges/ports.  

This is from my hike at Tent Rocks in New Mexico last fall.  And yes, the sky was really that blue!  This site is now a national monument so a lot more hikers than we remember before that designation, but still a breathtaking place (not just because of the climb...)

●Tent Rocks (Kasha-Katuwe)
12 x 12 Oil on Canvas 

Hot Off the Press

Hand printed and tinted drypoint intaglio print, edition of 15, ready for shipping.  This is going to a print exchange at 9 in Hand Press.  

Queen of Needles
5" x 7" Drypoint print with hand coloring