Eggs, Checks, and Butterfly

  14" x 18"  watercolor   $675.00 framed

An old fashioned kitchen or farmhouse painting.  Beginning with a still life class involving shadows, white objects and a darkened background with a checkered cloth, this was a challenging subject.  The students made it through a difficult class and learned to make values and shapes an 

important part of their work.  Showing now at Arati Artists Gallery, 2425 W. Colorado Ave. in Old Colorado City, Colorado Springs, CO.

Lit From the Attic Window

11" x 14"  watercolor  still life    $300.00 matted

In all actuality, I had gone looking for a proper vase up into the attic, with this spray of sunflowers in my hands, thinking, "I should have given these sunflowers a drink first.  After laying them on the wooden table, the light struck them through the window.  "Oh" I thought, "how beautiful"!  And so I progressed through the stages of photographing and marveling at the freshness and the lights against the dark shadows.

"Cloud Poppy" original acrylic

16" x 40"  original acrylic  $550.00

A giant floating, dreamy poppy with a whorl of stamens in the center, which is offset for that just right golden mean placement.  Your eyes can keep moving throughout the white petals with their ruffled, wrinkled shadows, like laugh lines around the eyes.

“Elder's Meditation of the Day - February 18  "laughter is a necessity in life that does not cost much, and the Old Ones say that one of the greatest healing powers in our life is the ability to laugh." --Larry P. Aitken, CHIPPEWA    Laughter is a good stress eliminator. Laughter causes healing powers to be distributed through our bodies. Laughter helps heal relationships that are having problems. Laughter can change other people. Laughter can heal the sick. Laughter is spiritual. One of the greatest gifts among Indian people has been our ability to laugh. Humor is natural to Indian people. Sometimes the only thing left to do is laugh.

"Aspens Triptych" prints

#1             #2              #3

prints are available in one long print of 21 x 40 for $150.00

or separate prints of 21 x 13.5 for $65.00 each

Contact me if you would like a print of only one of the panels.reveille_artiste@yahoo.com

   

The triptyche prints will be available in smaller sizes on demand and take about 10 days to print and send.

The original 28" x 54" aspen paintings are sold for $1500.00.
 I will be happy to paint more similar paintings if you contact me.   I can also paint them in one long panel lengthwise.
They are at once serene and peaceful yet also dramatic and stunning.  I am  wondering if a snowy owl or a snowshoe bunny would be appropriate in these woods?  

"Aspen Forest"

1/26/12   9.5"  x 14"  acrylic on masonite, unframed  $225.00

Again the crisp snowy morning made my nose hairs freeze as the sunlight produced highlights and shadows on the glistening drifts.

"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!