I love sunflowers! I have lost track of how many I’ve painted, which is the reason why the title is a number instead of a sunflower variety. Along with the sunflowers I’ve added another one of my favorite flowers, cosmos. I like the way their delicate shapes contrast with that of the sunflowers’ big and […] more »
I painted this as part of my Iowa pig series. I am also an avid crossword puzzle fan, and thought this would make an interesting background. more »
I used a Missouri map with the big city, K.C., cut up behind the pig for accents. Another of my pig series. more »
Part of the Iowa Pig collages. This one has special meaning to me because it has the number #264 on it — the street number where I grew up in Ohio. more »
One of my many sunflower bouquets. I love big, bold flowers and I planted six different sunflower varieties in my garden this year. I changed the vase motif a bit, with the vase sitting on the deck. more »
A handful of periwinkle blue posies in a vase, in a square format. more »
This painting of a jockey is a continuation of the series of figurative watercolors I've been working on. [...] more »
Picked a small bouquet of poppies and peonies. I love the colors of the warm orangish red in the poppies and the cool, delicate pinks of the peonies. The design is just a piece of the whole bouquet up close. more »
I find that a pig theme adds a humorous touch to my artwork. Ever since I witnessed a runaway pig at the Iowa State Fair, pigs have been a featured design in my collages. I usually start with a contour pencil design, and now I use [...] more »
I began with a deep purple background to contrast with the emerald green of the pig. Then I put a numeral 1 on his haunches; I couldn’t figure out how to finish, then had the idea to cut up flag stamps and glued on the bottom. more »