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)

photography

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Don we now our gay apparel

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007


 
Don we now our gay apparel!

The temperatures have dropped considerably here today… see what I found on the dining room shades this morning. Don we now our gay apparel!

Cool Cricket

Thursday, November 29th, 2007


 
Cool Cricket, Lewisville, Texas

One of the things I love about living in Texas is that we still hear crickets in the evening during November. This one is a survivor with one leg half there and part of one antennae missing. Those big eyes followed every movement.

Art everywhere

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007


 
Impatience - Croton plant roots; whimsical garden sculpture, Bearded Iris
While tidying up the garden and shaking out the soil from dead plants I was marveling at the root systems and couldn’t bring myself to throw this one away, it’s so interesting. This one is from a dead Croton plant, stuck into the ground upside down makes a unique garden sculpture.
Below: Croton, 1992 36 x 24 inches acrylics on canvas (private collection, Scotland).

Croton, 1992 36H x 24W inches acrylics on canvas

Anoles in the sun

Monday, November 19th, 2007


 

Anole under the rug, and eating fire ants

 

Anole, Lewisville, TX Anole, Lewisville, TX

Today there were three anoles playing in a warm sunny area by the back door, changing shades of brown and green. There was a lot of rain earlier in the year, so that must be why there seems to be more this year than in the five years we’ve lived here.

September rain

Friday, November 16th, 2007


 
Rain, September 2007, Lewisville, TX

Caterpillar Art

Thursday, November 15th, 2007


 

Caterpillar Art - avacado plant

It’s still warm and sunny in Texas, and caterpillars are making art in the garden!

Seasonal treasures

Sunday, November 11th, 2007


 

Filigree #1

Filigree #2

While photographing the filigree on many of the decaying oak leaves in a park forest, leaning backwards with my head in the branches, a little green snake struck out at me, the delicate body about 8″ long and no wider than a baby finger. I wrote to the Biology Dept. at Texas University, and they identified it as a Rough Green Snake – Opheodrys aestivus – it’s non-venomous.

Rough green snake - Opheodrys aestivus - nonvenomous, Coppell, Texas

Walking back home completely happy to have chosen that path, expecting no more treasure for the day, a leaf twirled in the breeze, hanging from a spider web strand.

Magical twirling leaf

‘Tis the season

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007


 

Hey Baby, how’s it goin’?

“Hey Baby, How’s it goin’?”

Water strider

Sunday, October 21st, 2007

Polypore Fungi, 59H x 41W x 2D, acrylics on canvas, work in progress. Acrylics painting started in June, hung and studied in the loose-phase state; cautious about overworking it. Plans this week: most everything will stay out of focus, with details only on the fungi (starting that next), using a little modeling paste to sculpt the fungi.

 Waterstrider

Watching the water-striders in the pond in our back yard pond.  Interesting that it is so weightless, yet with enough mass to be able to walk on water.

Morning moon

Sunday, October 7th, 2007


 

Oct. 7, 2007 morning moon and stars

Morning moon, Lewisville, TX

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