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Tuesday, April 18th, 2006
Arkansas July 6:45 a.m. ~ 14 x 11 Oil Pastels, part of the Paper Places series ~ $550.00
Driving back to Texas on our annual 2 1/2 day trip to eastern Ontario, I enjoy being on the road before sunrise. On lengthy journeys it’s best to take advantage of every splendor along the way, then the trip doesn’t seem to take so long.
Eucalyptus Tree
Sunday, April 16th, 2006
Eucalyptus Tree (Queen Mary’s Falls, Queensland, Australia) ~ 14 x 11 Oil Pastels on paper, Available, 26 x 22 inches total framed size. This is my favorite tree picture so far, along with Wild Canada in the same series.
Post-dated note: This drawing earned a spot in American Art Jury’s 2007 Spring/Summer online exhibition and gallery http://www.artjury.com
Eucalyptus Tree is part of the Paper Places series, accomplanied by and inspiring the following poem:
It remains
when things are gone
and people
passed and roads
and paths and places
we belong
to the Essence.
Galahs in Traffic, reworked
Friday, April 14th, 2006
Galahs in Traffic – Flocks of Galahs fly head on into cars on the road to Kangaroo Island, South Australia. 14 x 11 Oil Pastels ~ Available
All drawings in the series Paper Places are framed with 3″ white mat, 3″ wide white wood classic style frame 26 x 22 inches. Post-dated note: Galahs in Traffic placed in Artjury.com’s 2007 Fall/Winter Juried Online Exhibition.
Galahs in Traffic, version 1
Wednesday, April 12th, 2006
Galahs in Traffic - Version 1 – This drawing started out to be a portrait of the Norfolk Island Pines growing in this coastal area of South Australia. Many of the pieces in the Paper Places series have a first stage at the end of a day or two worth of work where it could be called finished, then further scrutiny says that it needs to be changed.
1) This is an area unlike any other, where flocks of Galahs flew directly into the traffic on the main highway leading to the Kangaroo Island ferry. Dead Galahs lay along the side of the road for miles. After two days of work and remembering the horrifying feelings of that scene, it was undeniably clear that the drawing as it is in the stage above, even though it could be called finished, is stagnant, ordinary, and so very unsuitable for the subject and what takes place there every day.
Bluebonnets – Four Abstracts
Thursday, March 23rd, 2006
Set of four 3 x 4 inches Oil Pastels on paper studies of Bluebonnets.
These studies are based on Springtime scenery along Beltline Road in Irving, Texas three years ago. Fields of Bluebonnets are now replaced by a major housing and commercial development.
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