This last Saturday I traveled north to Clear Lake to participate in the Art Sail Festival. This was my first time there. Artists set up in beautiful downtown city park overlooking Clear Lake. The weather was perfect — sunny and hardly any wind. I got there later than expected, due to road construction on I-35. […] more »
I spent the week of June 16 in Ottumwa serving as the artist-in-residence for their Art in the Parks program. I began the day at 9am each day at Pickwick schools teaching a collage class to 4th–6th graders. I reviewed how to begin a design using simple shapes and explained about the variety of different […] more »
This design was inspired by a photo of a Bluetick hound, and from a similar dog I saw while shopping at a pet store. This painting is different from other collages in that I painted the background first, before I pieced the collage papers on top of it. more »
My original idea was for this painting to have three flamingos and be called Flamingo Fandango, but I had to scale back to fit within the preselected frame. I painted the background loosely by dripping and flinging the paint on archival board. more »
With this collage I began with a loose, contour drawing, and concentrated on bold colors and whimsical shapes. more »
With this collage I began with a loose, contour drawing, and concentrated on bold colors and whimsical shapes. more »
This was done from March 2006 sketch of two green red-headed lovebirds on branch with a gray background. more »
This painting is of a purple bird with yellow and orange variegated feathers on a branch with red eye and blue legs. more »
This was designed using my contour drawing of the dog and dragonflies. This is the first time I’ve painted the board background color first with a brush instead of using the hand-painted collage papers. I felt the previous background textures were too distracting and opted for a smoother, less busy texture for it. This technique […] more »
For this piece I worked from my contour drawing of a cat. I formed it into a blue cat and added spots and a party hat for fun. more »