Goblet Patterns #5
November 3, 2006
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Stemware/Glass #4
October 23, 2006
This design includes the martini glasses, a bronze champagne glass, and turquoise Mexican glassware, along with the pears. With each glass composition I painted, I thought about other possibilites for designs — it gets more exciting with each painting I complete. This painting is basically a primary triad of red, yellow and blue. Another challenge […] more »
Goblet Patterns #3
October 23, 2006
Another angle of the purple goblets on the wood table, showing the contrast of the glass, wood grain and fruit textures. The pears lead into the design and the shadow patterns weave the glass and fruit together. All the glass stems reflect different shapes of the fruit and sunlit passages. This was painted on 300# […] more »
Goblets #2
October 8, 2006
A smaller version of the first design — an intimate close-up. The pears have lots of color reflections, and the goblets had lots of bubbles in the glass, which I simplified. What intrigued me was the fruit and handle shapes reflected in the goblet’s stems. more »
Goblets #1 (Sunday Shadows)
October 8, 2006
This is the first still life with glassware that I started in early October 2006. I set up the still life with my favorite purple goblets with pears in the sunroom, and worked from my photos because the light changes constantly. What drew my eye were the glass abstractions and distortions of color patterns and […] more »
Three Amigos
September 8, 2006
Hay Bales Landscape
July 28, 2006
This was a commissioned piece depicting an area near Moulton, Iowa. more »
Toucan 2
June 20, 2006
Under The Rainbow
June 19, 2006
Singing Penguins
June 19, 2006