Rusty Wagon and Old Hare.

14" x 18"  w/c  original 

Imperfections of a life well lived. Age becomes beauty in a new way.

From My brother's farm in Cedaredge, CO.

Imperfections of a life well lived. Age becomes beauty in a new way.

Waterfall Splash

12" x 12"     oil on canvas   $200.00

A moment in time, when all of nature's glory is splashing at once. Solid rock, azure water, and green foliage.  Putting toes into that icy water on a sun warmed day, you wonder why the fish are so abundant.  I can barely move when I am cold, running for a jacket and shivering.  Clever fish.

Glorious Season

4" x 12"    acrylic    $150.00

A trip last Sunday to the mountains provided so many gorgeous autumn views and there were crowds lining the winding roads making memories.  As we wound back home darkness was beginning but somehow the aspens still held their glow.  Irrisistable!

Seagull's Silver Spoon

11" x 14"    watercolor    $145.00

Mr. Seagull found a silver spoon left on the beach by picnickers and boy is he protecting it.  I wonder if he will be having a bowl of cereal in the morning?  Or maybe he will be digging a cavern with it like I used to try to do so I could hide from everyone and store my precious marbles?  He could even be making fish soup for dinner and now he can eat it in style!

I Know The Angels Kissed You

8" x 11"  colored pencil on mat board  children  portrait  SOLD

My mother, Mary Wright's, poetry and my colored pencil drawing
So sweet for a Happy Mother's Day!

Crash and Flow

5" x 7"  watercolor   $40.00

Lapping and climbing at the edge of mossy rocks, the water composes its own melody of crash and flow, whoosh and  play, hide and seek and back wash.  Steadily surprising us,we adore the game.

Foxey

11" x 15"  watercolor  $50.00

This little Mama lives under our driveway.  She feeds her pups mice and birds and every once in a while we are lucky to see her scampering through the trees.  She doesn't stop often, so we are lucky to catch a glimpse of her.

Wooly Face

7.25" x 10.75"    watercolor    $125.00

Dear lambs,

My sheep know My voice.....knowledge puffs up but love builds up......He leads me in green pastures.....

We wander, we get ourselves in ruts and guess who gets us out of the ruts?  He moves us to a part of the pasture where there are lots of good things to eat.  I know who he is, because he has always been my shepherd.  Because of Him  I sleep in peace.  I am one of His many lambs and my Father loves me best!

Five Sheep Running

11" x 6"         watercolor        $45.00

I have been working on combinations of colors for a client and making small paintings to send as a trial from the color combos she sent me.  It will eventually be a full sheet w/c hung to complement her quilt.

I will make a couple more of these loose washes, and I am itching to begin the real painting.

Tulips and Apples in April

14.5" x 14.5"   watercolor and gouach  SOLD

My students and I set up a still life with vase, flowers, small bowl with a handle, some apples and a cloth on a table.  I try to show them how to get the composition right by making several thumbnails of various views and then choose the one we each like best.  Next we layer washes, letting each one dry so that the colors stay bright.  We punch the darks as necessary and let the painting tell us where we need to express some freedom of strokes and splatters.  We step back often from our work making sure that some of the colors marry together .

"Grapevine Post"

4" x 19" watercolor      SOLD

Grapevines in sunny Tuscany on a post near the front portico.

Christ Child, Mary, Christmas, Nativity, Manger

20 x 20 pastel on mi tiente paper  $2000.00

My friend Jeannie and her beautiful baby posed for this square 20 x 20 painting. I depicted her as Mary with her son Jesus in a manger. This nativity scene is available in the framed and matted original or as a print. I used tinted mi tiente paper and pastels for the soft look I was after.

"Deer Garden"

18" x 24"  oil framed  $525.00

A creature with the most moist soft eyes, and gentle nature comes to visit my garden nearly every day....only he thinks it is his garden and loves to snuffle and munch.  My husband always says, "Planting deer food?"  I guess I always hope for those gorgeous blossoms that I see in other people's gardens!

"Echinacea Gone Wild"

30 x 40 acrylic on streched canvas, framed   $750.00

Painted last year in the late summer when echinacea is in bloom and thriving.   Also known as the cone flower.  I think they look like ballerinas in pink tutus.

‎"Walter's Buffet"

w/c on 140 lb Arches paper      5/15/11          7.5 x 11  $55.00

Interesting liquor bottles displayed on a beautiful inlaid wooden console with a hanging tapestry and sunlight streaming through the windows.  Walter's house was beautiful with Italianate furnishings and lovely light.

"3 Aspens"

4 x 6      oil on canvas board        5/21/11       $35.00

  Where else but Colorado! I love aspens. I love their leaves and their lacy beauty even though people say they are big weeds. Sure are pretty weeds!

Samantha

w/c on 140 lb Arches

portrait commission  12/10/11   8 x 10  sold
prints available    $35.00

This little puppy with her giant doggie bone is holding on tightly.  How could anyone want to take it away from her, anyway?