Better ask my friend Darrell who took the photograph on which this study is based. Getting ready to teach a watercolor workshop up in Maine.
Rainy Day studies
Saying goodbye to Summer with some rainy day/ weather effects studies. Watercolor and graphite
Blackberry Celebration
After a wonderful summer in the UK there were blackberries everywhere. So much fun to pick and taste and so much fun to eat. Pen and ink and watercolor. 8" x 5"
A "Leftovers" collage
Putting everything away after Summer Camp and playing with the leftover scraps of paper. Somehow the cat just appeared so of course there had to be a mouse.
Welcome August
I love Summer and I especially love August as it means time with my family. So here is a "birthday cake" to celebrate August. Made from an old paperback and some great trim. Folding all those pages is very therapeutic as long as one does not get sucked into rereading the book.
A seasonal Collage
Celebrating Summer Vegetables.
Night Owls
Experimenting with a small Lino cut and paint effects. Journal page
Earth and Sky
Mixed media collage of Taos Pueblo, New Mexico. On canvas, 10 x 8 "
And this is how a couple of them turned out:
Very interesting to follow the same path for a couple of pieces and then see how they all turn out so differently....
Working on a mixed media piece
Sometimes when working on a mixed media piece, I like to work on several versions at the same time.
Iconic Black Mesa
Iconic Black Mesa - again - this time in watercolor over ink.
Buildings and Ruins
Summer is here and hopefully that means drawing and sketching outside. But for now, more inside work. Watercolor, ink and candle wax resist. A drawing of Glastonbury Abbey against the evening light.
Maritime map of New England
More on the travel theme. A map of Maritime New England showing just a few of the many lighthouses and a rather hungry whale. Acrylic on wooden panel, 12 x 36"
Still on the Travel Theme
A guide to magical New England, showing some of the principal castles and the southern and northern dragons who guard the sacred I-95 route. Note too the serpent who waits for the careless upon the ancient Mass Pike pathway Acrylic on wood panel. 12 x 36".
Peccos National Park, NM
Peccos National Park has just about everything - wind, sky, ruins, views and even flocks of bluebirds. Take water and walk where thousands have walked before you.
New Mexico Wildlife Refuge
While strolling in Santa Fe last month we met some unusual residents. Part of a fund/ consciousness raising effort on the part of the organization which rescues injured animals. Pen and ink, journal pages.
Under a dark and stormy sky! Taos, New Mexico
Driving up to Taos last weekend. Amazing sky all around.
San Ildefonso Pueblo and Black Mesa
A week ago we were in New Mexico. We visited San Ildefonso Pueblo, just outside Santa Fe, one cold, windy afternoon. Luckily it was one of the days when it did not snow. The pueblo is famous for its beautiful black pottery. Hand built rather than thrown on a wheel and polished by stones. The clay is dug locally and fired in the traditional manner of the pueblo, using animal dung for fuel. Dwarfing the pueblo is an enormous rock structure, "Black Mesa", almost a guardian spirit. It seems alive, the colors change with every shift of shadow. Go on a cloudy day. Journal pages, watercolor.
New Mexico sky
Very cold, even snowed on three different days. Luckily at this time of year the snow is light and dry. Wonderful open skies and amazing cloud formations. Watercolor, journal page.
Pueblo, after a little more work
Getting close to being finished. Acrylic on canvas, 20 x 20 ". Pueblo patterns of light and shade.
