Roscoe, Snyder & Pacific Caboose #9
September 15, 2017
Bentonsport, Iowa is a quaint, picturesque village to visit and many artists come to paint it in the various seasons. This particular caboose is a rental cottage at present. more »
Posts Tagged “Yellow”
Des Moines Bridge, River Walk Downtown
September 13, 2017
In this particular landscape, the bridge is a cropped shape, capturing the gentle curve of the structure. The focus was on the curved shape leading the viewer's eye into the picture. more »
Raindrops Bouquet with Sunflowers & Zinnias
July 12, 2017
This particular bouquet was very full with the lemon and cadmium yellow sunflowers -- they grabbed center stage. I love them because they are bold and beautiful in the arrangements. I stuffed them into the vase with the fuchsia zinnias and lavender cosmos. more »
Fong’s Pizza & Cocktails on Fourth Street
June 6, 2017
This painting is part of my downtown Des Moines cityscape series. What attracted me to this particular building was the signage and architecture. It is a unique structure and using collage best describes my impression of it. more »
Ultramarine Morning & City Ride in Des Moines
May 22, 2017
This is a special design combining the bicycle amid the downtown buildings on Grand Avenue in Des Moines. more »
Mosaic Garden Series – Purple Pinwheels
April 28, 2017
Drawing and painting my garden flowers has been a delight for me. Every year I add new plants to the old favorites. I draw from life in the garden and also cut bouquets to set up still lifes. more »
Dark Cliffs, Red & Violet Rockscape
April 5, 2017
I began this abstract collage without a thumbnail sketch, but by choosing a variety of colors from my hand-painted acrylic papers. Some of my newer papers were painted with a bristle brush instead of using the brayer to roll and blend the pigments. I liked the brush marks on the paper which adds some new […] more »
Burst of Summertime with Purple Lace
April 3, 2017
Nothing is more inspiring than a vase of fresh cut flowers from my garden! These gladioli and small sunflowers smelled wonderful, and their myriad colors and intricate shapes of petals and leaves inspired me to paint them. In the winter I plan and dream about what new varieties to add to my garden. Painting still […] more »
Orientale Cadenza for Trumpet
February 15, 2017
Painting a series of musical instruments has been on my mind lately. This began with a very loose contour drawing in ink and turned out to be more complicated than I thought. I completed the drawing from life and included the many sections of details as I worked. Sometimes I like to begin doing a […] more »
Prairie Cathedral (Elevator Icon #1)
January 31, 2017
Lately I have been working on a variety of Iowa-themed work in preparation of my joint exhibition next year with Deb Baughman, to be held at Indian Hills College in Ottumwa. This collage is a design of an old grain elevator in Chariton, Iowa. The structure was interesting with its many jutting pieces stacked on […] more »