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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
I originally started this to be a pet portrait sample. more »
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 »
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 »
This is another variation of the pig series using stamps. more »
I set up this still life in our sunroom and worked from the photo. The glassware still lifes are great to paint in winter when I don’t have the garden bouquets to do, and the quality of light is different in the winter. more »
This is a floral bouquet of garden flowers set up on a bench. I have discovered there are many different varieties of sunflowers — the big, bold shapes are easy to paint and are eye catching bouquets. more »