Universal

Here's my favorite monotype from the weekend workshop...

...trees in the moon's arms
lovelight in the darkest hour
before the ending

Show & Tell Monotypes

Here are two monotypes from today's workshop with Amber George.  Going back to Bonita for the second day tomorrow.

The Littlest Sprout

Finnegan

Lavender House

acrylic on paper 9"x12"

Ever since I discovered artist Jim Wagner's work in Taos I have wanted to paint "primitive", which to me means simple, somewhat awkward and heartfelt.  I haven't quite figured it out yet, but I'll get there.  This house is in National City in a spot where there are others of interest. I want to go back there.

Bazaar del Mundo Fountain

Derwent Inktense Pencils

New Mexico Redux

Sometime in the '90's I visited New Mexico and was enchanted by this piece of architecture.  These are the photos I took then.

On my recent trip, in Old Town Albuquerque, I found myself eating in an outdoor patio restaurant and facing the same adobe wall.  I was again fascinated,took photos and sketched, not remembering my previous interest until I came home and hauled out the New Mexico album from long ago!

Here AGAIN:

my sketch

Taos Poppies

Bazaar del Mundo Flower Cart

This is the original acrylic on 5"x8" canvas board

This is the manipulated inkjet greeting card

Fleeing to the Sea

Our unusually warm weather
takes me back to the islands of  Hawaii
where the BEST weather lives
in a mansion of scented air.

St. Matthew's in National City Yesterday

Acryic 8"x10"

Liberty Station Rose Garden

Acrylic 5"x8"

Fireworks!

...or roseworks

Wait For It...

On The Waterfront This Morning

Cityscape to the Left

Point Loma Fogbank to the Right

Unpainted Sketches from New Mexico

Stone Soup Workshop in Taos

Just finished four day workshop in Taos with LavenderSage Art Retreat folks.  Still on vacation in New Mexico.  Brought an easel intending to paint plein air but weather is too hot during the day and mosquitos after that.  Early morning flies by when you're having sumptuous breakfasts!

Yoga/Crow

pages in progress for book

Monoprint for book cover (and my big toe upper left)

Indian on Museum Hill, Santa Fe

Next time - a bigger piece of paper!

Desert Haiku

Oceans of sagebrush
floating on smooth swells of sand
like resting seabirds

(this will be a painting some day!)

Eyes of God

I painted this many years ago after a trip to Arizona, or was it New Mexico?  It hangs in my counseling office and people often ask why the children have no faces.  I tell them they are the 'eyes of God' and no one questions further.  I came to the conclusion that they WERE the eyes of God after I tried to paint faces on them several times without success.  Artists get to do things like that.  I'm leaving tomorrow for another Lavender Sage Art Retreat, in Taos this time.  Looking forward to exploring around Albuquerque and Santa Fe again - The Turquoise Trail.   Last time I took photos.  This time, who knows?

Paper Sunset Through The Porthole