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Wednesday, June 12th, 2024
Showing in Exhibizone’s True Beauty June 12-Aug. 12th, 2024
Butterfly Bush – Buddleja davidii, Lake Wakatipu, Queenstown New Zealand – 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper. Beautiful invasion: Native to central China and an ornamental in North American gardens, the Butterfly Bush is viewed as invasive in many countries across the world. Originally drawn and posted April 7th, 2024.
Bachelor’s Buttons
Tuesday, June 11th, 2024
Bachelor’s Buttons and California Poppies, Hillsboro OR garden, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper
Sea Anemone
Monday, May 20th, 2024
Sea Anemone, Cannon Beach OR, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper. 27H x 33W” framed – white mat and custom-built white wood frame with crackle finish.
Originally posted on April 8th, Sea Anemone won a Silver Award in J. Mane Gallery’s 2024 “H2O” Exhibition showing May 20 – June 20th.
Haida Design Woodcarving
Sunday, May 19th, 2024
Haida Design Woodcarving along shoreline trail Campbell River BC, 10H x 6W inches soft pastels on paper
Indian Paintbrush
Saturday, May 18th, 2024
Indian Paintbrush, Gold River BC, 6H x 10W inches soft pastels on paper
May 17th drawing: Dogwood in Bloom at Buttle Lake, Vancouver Island, BC, 6H x 10W inches soft pastels on paper
May 16th drawing: Rebecca Spit, Quadra Island, BC, 8H x 10W inches soft pastels on paper
Botanicals 2024
Sunday, May 12th, 2024
Sunflowers, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper. Framed size 27H x 33W”. Won an Honorable Mention in Ten Moir Gallery’s online exhibition, “Botanicals“, open May 12th.
Bald Eagles
Saturday, May 4th, 2024
Bald Eagles, juvenile watching mature in flight at Oceanside, OR. 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper. Framed size 27H x 33W inches.
Thumbnails show stages 1 through 4. Soft pastels don’t allow for too many changes, so the work had to be sprayed and set well before carefully making the juvenile eagle smaller to create a more convincible perspective. That also forced me to rework the sky and clouds, so now hoping those lines help with perspective.
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Mallards
Tuesday, April 30th, 2024
Mallards, Rood Bridge Park, Hillsboro OR, 18H x 24W soft pastels on watercolor paper. Framed size 27H x 33W inches, white mat and white wood frame with crackle finish.
Animals of the Planet 2024
Monday, April 29th, 2024
Feeding Cockatoos at Apollo Bay, Australia, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper, drawn and originally published on Jan. 3rd, 2021. 27H x 33W” with white mat and custom-built white wood frame with crackle finish.
Showcased online in Exhibizone’s Animals of the Planet 2024 April 29th through June 29th.
Saguaro Cactus
Wednesday, April 24th, 2024
Saguaro Cactus and surrounding scrub – January in the Sonoran Desert south of Phoenix AZ – 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper. This and the surrounding Saguaros all had either burn damage from forest fires or bacterial necrosis, a disease rotting them from the ground up. Local groups are rescuing Saguaros by cutting off an arm or the top and replanting them, helping to restore the fragile Sonoran Desert ecosystem.