Saturday Sunflowers
March 8, 2008
A bunch of petite sunflowers in a glass jar. more »
Love Birds
March 7, 2008
This was done from March 2006 sketch of two green red-headed lovebirds on branch with a gray background. more »
Cockatoo
March 7, 2008
This painting is of a purple bird with yellow and orange variegated feathers on a branch with red eye and blue legs. more »
Doxie & Dragonflies
March 4, 2008
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 »
Dominoes
March 3, 2008
This is part of the glassware series, with dominoes in the martini glass. Dominoes have been in some of my earlier watercolors of the 90’s in my popular Chairs Series, and before that in some of my woodblock designs in the late 80’s. more »
Party Cat
February 29, 2008
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 »
Apple Martini Monopoly
February 20, 2008
I set up this still life on the kitchen countertop. It is a more complicated and challenging composition with the fruit, glass, gameboard surface and ice cubes. more »
Golden Boy
February 18, 2008
I originally started this to be a pet portrait sample. more »
Winter Apples
February 15, 2008
Another still life set up with the granny smith apples and glassware in the sunroom, worked from my photograph. I wanted to portray the green, crisp apples on the glass table with the glasses and red napkin. more »
Kansas City Pig
February 5, 2008
Another of the famous pig series I began in 2001. I have discovered that people associate pigs with Iowa and the situations in which I present them make people laugh. Always a good thing! more »