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.

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 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.

Bearded Iris, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper

Elk Falls Provincial Park 05, Vancouver Island BC, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper. Framed size 27H x 33W”.

Raw Beauty, sunset walk through the Rood Bridge Park forest, Hillsboro OR – early Spring by the pond. 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper. 27H x 33W” framed – white mat and custom-built white wood frame with crackle finish.

Frosty Grass, 27H x 33W inches soft pastels on paper, white mat and white wood frame with crackle finish. Initially drawn and posted on Feb. 27th, ‘Frosty Grass’ will be showing in Exhibizone’s online exhibition, “Seasons: Spring 2024” April 1st – July 1st. In the Exhibizone competitions viewers decide the viewing order.

Tulips, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper. Framed size 27H x 33W”.

Sun Shower, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper.

Chipmunk, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper. Left thumbnail shows how the drawing started with composition mapped out. 27H x 33W inches framed size.