When life gives you lemons, draw them, 11 x 14 inches dry pastels, graphite on paper

"When life gives you lemons, draw them." (Nikki)

"Color! What a deep and mysterious language." (Paul Gauguin)

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Perennial Friends

Friday, February 29th, 2008


 
Grape Hyacinth

The Grape Hyacinth started blooming this week…next the Iris, and I can’t wait to see the Ornamental Onions again.

6:49 p.m.

Thursday, February 28th, 2008


 

February 28, 2008, 6:49 p.m.
Amazing sunset tonight.

Mockingbird

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008


 
Mockingbird - Lewisville, Texas

This week mating season has started for Mockingbirds in northeast Texas. Mockingbirds mimic over 120 bird calls, and I’m guessing there are a couple of frog calls in the mix too. Really interesting, and a sound I love hearing when outside doing yardwork.

Guanacaste Trees

Monday, February 25th, 2008


 

Guanacaste Trees, Costa Rica - 11 x 14 oil pastels, graphite on paper

Guanacaste Trees, Costa Rican Grasslands, 11H x 14W inches oil pastels on paper. Part of the Paper Places series, all have white double mats and white custom built wood frames with crackle finish, total size 22H x 26W inches.
The unusually wide umbrella-like shape of the trees look cartoonish, but with a few textures I think the issue is resolved now.

Guanacaste trees have such presence! Costa Rica is not well known for its open grasslands, but north-west and central areas of the country flatten out a little, with mountains of rain forests and volcanoes on the horizon. Guanacaste trees look entirely different growing in the rain forest than on the open grasslands.

The Great Ocean Road

Sunday, February 24th, 2008


 

The Great Ocean Road, east coast Australia, 11 x 14 Oil pastels and graphite on paper

The Great Ocean Road, east coast Victoria, Australia, 11H x 14W inches oil pastels on paper, framed with 3 inch white double mat, brass title plate, and white wood frame with crackle finish, 22H x 26W inches total size. Sold.

Creamy white Valentine’s Day rose

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008


 

One of the creamy white Valentine’s Day roses.

My Valentine’s roses needed a fresh cut and a few petals removed. The landfill sights are sweeter this past week, I bet.
I dried a few of the roses, and adorned the doves nest in the back-door wreath.

Palo Verde tree in bloom at a nursery in Ajijic, Mexico

Friday, February 15th, 2008


 
Palo Verde tree in bloom at a nursery in Ajijic, Mexico
Palo Verde tree in bloom at a nursery in Ajijic, Mexico

Updates

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008


 

Polypore Fungi - 58 x 41 inches, Acrylics and carved modeling paste $1,500* The acrylics/mixed media painting Polypore Fungi is accepted into VAST Arts 40th Annual Visual Arts Exhibition April 10- May 29, 2008

* The Heart Shapes in Nature photographic series are available as 3 x 4 inch framed prints, matted white or black with black frames – $7.50 each or 3 for $20 at Studio 2600, 2600 Hibernia, Dallas. http://www.studio2600dallas.com/

* The Oil Pastel work Eastern White Pine is showing at the AVAA 32nd Annual Regional Juried Art Exhibit in Arlington, Texas February 15 – March 28, 2008

 

Valentine

Sunday, February 10th, 2008


 
Hey, remind me to buy my wife a card for Valentine’s Day.”

Graphite drawing, scanned and detailed with digital pen.

Fire Ants feeding on sap

Saturday, February 9th, 2008


 
Fire Ants feeding on tree sap - photography - Coppell, Texas

Even if we think nothing is happening…it is. Today I went for a walk through my favorite park in Coppell, and my peripheral vision noticed tiny ant-highways up and down a few trees, so I stood and admired them for a while.

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