Seagulls

This painting was done with watercolor and gouche. I loved the combination of media and the vivid colors. It also satisfied something in me that wants to express the subject without being realistic. To me that is really what art should be. I love to feed the gulls when I am at the beach. I know, it makes the beach residents mad at you, but then, I'm not there very often so I figure they'll just have to put up with me. I love it when you feed one gull, and then it tells all the other gulls and suddenly you can see them flying in all the way from the horizon, until they are hovering in a cloud around your head. Then they remain suspended in front of you until you toss a morsel to them. Anyway, I think I caught that suspended sense of feeding frenzy in this painting!

Mountain River

This is the river I visit every year to paint. It is the Greenbriar Branch of the Little Pigeon River in Tennessee. A group of 15 or so painters gather each year to spend a week painting the beauty of the mountains. We stay at the Buckhorn Inn outside of Gatlinburg. The inn is located on a mountain side away from all city noise and distractions. It is an idyllic week. This spot on the river is a favorite place to paint because you can set up your easel on the flat rocks in the middle of the river and paint with the sound of the water rushing down the mountain all around you. I hope I have conveyed some measure of the beauty of this place to you. This is an oil painting, size 8" x 10".

"Sunflower Morning" SOLD

This is a favorite painting of mine. The reason that I like it is that I feel that any painting should have 'lost and found' edges and I feel that I succeeded with that in this painting. 'Lost and found edges' help to entertain the viewer and escape the boredom of 'sameness'. I think they also add an emotional edge or feeling to a painting. Here I think they tell of light and air and movement. What do you think?
SOLD

You can see my art in person at Monarch Gallery Lancaster, Ohio 43130 and at the Main Gallery, Lancaster.

White Tulips

This is an oil painting of white tulips that were in my garden.
I painted them in an antique vase. The delicate colors seem to
glow against the background and shadows of blues and grayblues.

"Tiger Lilies" - Sold

This painting (15" x 22") was painted as a demonstration for the painting group "Collage" which that day was meeting in Gahanna, Ohio. It was painted as a demonstration of 'negative' painting (bringing out the subject by painting the negative areas behind the subject). This particular painting just 'slid' off the brush. Those are a joy to do, but the paintings that are labored over are no less valid. SOLD

"Tulips, Daffodils, and More"

This painting is 15" x 22" and is a mixed media painting. I used silk dyes, India inks, watercolor and gesso for this painting. The dyes and inks provided the vivid colors and I painted it in an impressionistic manner, in an effort to express the 'feeling' of a spring garden.

Oriental Poppy

This is a very small painting (framed image size: 4" x 6") done in my watercolor class last Tuesday. One of our class, Susan, who is as fine a gardner as she is a painter, brought in a beautiful bouquet of oriental poppies. Looking for the 'essence' or 'symbol' for the poppy, I tried to reproduce the crinkled petals by placing tissue paper onto the moist paint and letting it dry there. It gave a wonderful texture to the poppy petals and accomplished it's purpose. The other symbols, the drooping flower, the black center, also serve to tell the viewer - 'this is an oriental poppy'.