Taylor In Sunshine

6" x 6"  watercolor SOLD

I had to depict Taylor in sunshine because that is her personality!  She is the most lighthearted, gentle, cheerful granddaughter who knows how to listen, prepares great food, is and supportive when you need help. She contributes to her basketball team and swimming as well.  Taylor does have  a serious competitive, creative  side, but would rather hang out with family and friends and bring comfort where needed.  I love to relax with this fun girl!

River Blue

11" x 15"   watercolor   $150.00

Even in the winter warm barren golden weeds line the river like a woolen scarf.  A small lone wooden barn near the base of the mountains shelters livestock. Oh glorious day!

Bright Forest

4" x 12" each on deep canvas    oil    $99.00 each or al three for $250.00

A happy salute to all my friends!  Stand tall and raise your arms in the air and breathe the freshness of fall, floating leaves and kids jumping in crunchy piles of earthy gold.  

This year my tulips are planted and covered with chicken wire so that they don't become squirrel food and I am hopeful that they will bring Springtime joy in 2014.  Can you believe it?  

 These happy paintings are covered with heavy oil paint and slightly abstract because you cannot really decipher a leaf!  However you get the idea of warmth at the end of October.  I love my aspen trees so much with their gorgeous paper bark, scarred,  as of someone came by with a charcoal stick and scribbled on them.  Do you think it was the mysterious"Banksy"?  

Springtime Cache

21" x 29"  watercolor matted and framed  $1050.00

How do you know when spring arrives?  Is it the small soft green buds forming on the branches,  or is it the small baby animals that suddenly begin to appear on the landscape?  I have to admit that Spring is my favorite time of the year because of hope...anticipation...delicate colors...play of light...and newness.  I painted these trees, nest and eggs with that thought in my mind.  How do birds do it?  They just get so excited making the nest for their lovers!  How sweet to know that love is in the air everywhere.

"Aspen Bright"

6" x 9" watercolor  $45.00

When the clouds turn to a lavender gray and the sun tries to find a way through, the trees and foliage are brighter than ever in Colorado.

"The Old Tire Swing"

18" x 21"  watercolor   $1200.00 unframed

The tire swing hangs over the shallow water near an old turquoise bridge, (which I decided not to put in), down in Cheyenne Canyon.  I couln't resist adding a couple of children to round out the painting and give it more life.  The trees were already bare and the golden leaves floated on the top of the water on a crisp, but not cold afternoon.

"Golden Iris"

9" x 18"  watercolor  $175.00 double matted and framed

My friend Linda Mertons, who is a fantastic gardener, gave me some bulbs from her stash last year, and this spring these amazing blossoms were among my new sprouts.  Luckily the deer do not like Iris.  

These paintings are currently on display at Arati gallery, 2425 W. Colorado Ave. along with many of my paintings of buildings, including " A Shower at the Broadmoor".    Hope you enjoy them.  I also have two painting at Cottonwood Artist's Gallery for the Susan G. Komen display. 

"Porch Petunias"

8" x 8"  acrylic on canvas   $SOLD

Frothy, flirty perky petunias on my front porch remind me of a cool ice cream cone on the 4th of July.  So much fun to paint and so fragile.  Dripping over the side of a pretty ceramic container, the poor things have recovered from hail and deer.  They look darned good right now, don't they? The great thing about canvas, is that it can be washed pretty clean if the paint hasn't dried, and you can begin again, as I did, with a ghost image.

"Mr. Rabbit #4"

9" x 12"  watercolor SOLD

This little bunny is a great teaching tool to loosen people up.  With a ton of water and a brush loaded with bright colors, anyone can learn this technique.  In three layers you will have a handsome fluffy abstract bunny that looks like he is serenely sitting in the weeds in the sunshine.  A successful class today.

"Enigma"

watercolor on 140 lb archces paper

$175.00 framed and matted

Golden winter bushes with blue shadows behind the tree and rocks, muted trees in backlit shadow. The twin towers are also muted at the back of the park  The grayish sky is all this painting needed to be a fading memory.

Let's Stop and Look Over the Edge"

$150.00  unframed

 pastel 6/2/11, 11 x 14. I have heard that there are no shadows in heaven, and yet an artist depends on them for depth and of course color. I imagine heaven like a butterfly wing or a clean fresh child's face. No need for shadow there! 

Just purity. These rugged rusty rocks are filled with jigs, jags, rough texture and very colorful slubbed shadows. They are weathered and full of secrets of age.

"Lean on Me"

5 x 7 acrylic  $45.00

6/5/11  Grapefruit and lemons are colorful, good for you and yummy too.  Gobble them up with gusto, put them in your drinks, your salads, and make sure you have some citrus with breakfast.  My mouth is watering!