When life gives you lemons, draw them, 11 x 14 inches dry pastels, graphite on paper

"When life gives you lemons, draw them." (Nikki)

"Color! What a deep and mysterious language." (Paul Gauguin)

Archive for June, 2019

Loosestrife

Friday, June 28th, 2019


 

Loosestrife, 12 x 12 inches acrylics, crackle medium on canvas
Loosestrife: beautiful invasion, Violet, ON Canada – 12 x 12 inches acrylics, crackle medium on canvas, frame unnecessary.
Store-bought canvases are really slippery, so I’ve started using crackle medium to give the paint something to hold onto. It also is great for subtle textures and building layers of color. For more texture, the medium can be manipulated while wet. It softens the paint layer/s below and can be scratched, lifted or molded into shapes with a brush.

Goldenrod

Tuesday, June 25th, 2019


 

Goldenrod, 12 x 12 inches acrylics on canvas
Goldenrod, 12 x 12 inches acrylics on canvas, frame unnecessary.

Forest Spirit

Monday, June 24th, 2019


 

Forest Spirit, 12 x 12 inches acrylics on canvas
Forest Spirit, 12 x 12 inches acrylics on canvas, frame unnecessary 

Change

Friday, June 21st, 2019


 

Change, 12 x 12 inches acrylics on canvas
Change, a change for me and also a change of seasons, 12 x 12 inches acrylics on canvas, frame unnecessary. Signed on the side so as to not intrude on the composition.

Bachelor’s Buttons

Thursday, June 13th, 2019


 

Bachelor's Buttons, 12W X 12H x 1D inches acrylics on canvas
Bachelor’s Buttons, 12W X 12H x 1D inches acrylics on canvas. Frame unnecessary.

Gale Creek

Wednesday, June 12th, 2019


 

Gale Creek, 12 x 12 inches acrylics on canvas
Gale Creek, 12 x 12 inches acrylics on canvas, frame unnecessary. 2nd entry for the Square Foot Show, Bismark, ND August 6th-30th, 2019

Double Daisies

Wednesday, June 5th, 2019


 

Double Daisies, 12 x 12 acrylics on canvas
Double Daisies, 12 x 12 acrylics on canvas, frame unnecessary. Entry for the Square Foot show in Bismark, ND in August. There is still another month to paint more to choose 2 entries from.

Artavita Contest finalist

Saturday, June 1st, 2019


 

Winter Forest: Dogwood, 14H x 20W watercolors on cold pressed

Artavita Contest 32 Finalist CertificationThis piece was a finalist in the Artavita competition for the front and back covers of the International Contemporary Masters Volume 13, June 2019.

Winter Forest: Dogwood, 14H x 20W inches watercolors on 140 lb cold pressed, 21H x 26″ framed size. In the beautiful, organized chaos of a winter forest in Pacific Northwest, rain brings out the subtleties, in particular the red branches of wild Dogwood complimented by the surreal green colors of moss on every tree.