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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Bearded Iris - painted plein air - 44 x 18 inches Acrylics on stretched canvas.
Plein air, progression of Bearded Iris.
I could no longer avoid the subject of Iris - have always thought the subject to be too cliche - but they are blooming crazily in our garden this week, and I have taken far too many photos of them that don’t quite satisfy me. This variety actually blooms an unprecidented 3 times a year here! Some of the flower stalks grow well over three feet tall, with six or seven large five and a half inch blooms.
I started with a moody dark against light high-contrast painting in mind, but noticed after the 3rd stage (see above) how restricted I started feeling, and likewise, it showed as pretentious in the work. I realized there are a lot of limitations I impose subconsciously and consciously, (like do paint this, don’t paint that), preventing me from having a really great time painting.
White Pine Bows
Friday, April 18th, 2008
White Pine Bows, 20 x 34 x 1.5 inches Acrylics on stretched canvas. This was started and finished today; sensing I need to quit while I’m ahead.
Rocky Mountain Vista finished
Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Above: Rocky Mountain Vista detail images, each portion approx 14 x 24 inches
Left: Complete, 48 x 24 inches, Acrylics on stretched canvas. Paintings that are proportionately longer than wider don’t photograph well or show impressively on screen, so I split Rocky Mountain Vista into four seperate detail images.
Quaking Aspen, finished
Saturday, April 5th, 2008
Quaking Aspen, 24 x 36 inches Acrylics on stretched canvas, finished this morning.
Tree Bark
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
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To view more photography and tree-specific Art please visit The Majesty of Trees.
Redbuds in bloom
Saturday, March 29th, 2008
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Redbuds ~ Dry Pastels on charcoal paper ~ 14 x 11 inches with white double mat and white classic-style frame, total size 26" x 22" | |
| $550.00 Framed |  |
Diamonds In The Rough
Saturday, March 1st, 2008
Diamonds In The Rough - Great White Egret, Andy Brown Jr. Park, Coppell, Texas - Early morning dew on the grass, still slightly foggy but enough sun to make the water sparkle, and a Mayfly appearing at exactly the right moment… now these are my kind of diamonds!
To enhance the photo it was digitally changed to black and white and the contrast was clarified x 3. In the thumbnail below (click to see larger version) only the contrast was clarified. Both versions are available.
Mattipaul Trees
Monday, February 25th, 2008
Mattipaul Trees, Costa Rican Grasslands - 11 x 14 Oil Pastels and pencil on paper. The unusually wide umbrella-like shape of the trees presented a problem for a while, as they appeared cartoonish, but after sitting for a while out of sight, then work with a fresh perspective, I think maybe the problem is finally solved.
I’m quite sure these are Mattipaul trees (Ailanthus tripysa), but can find very little information about them. They have such presence you’d think they would be one of the better-known trees. Costa Rica is not well known for it’s relatively flat open grasslands, but north-west and central areas of the country flatten out a little, with mountains of rainforests and volcanoes on the horizon. Mattipaul trees grow with with entirely different habit under the canopy of the rainforest than on the open grasslands.
Part of the Paper Places series, all with white double mats and white classic-style wood frames, total size 22 x 26 inches.
The Great Ocean Road
Sunday, February 24th, 2008
The Great Ocean Road, weathered, dead tree, Eastern coastline, Victoria, Australia - 11 x 14 Oil pastels and pencil on paper.
This drawing has weathered a little time itself - it needed to go a little beyond the ordinary, so I put out of sight for a while and just gave it a few more finishing touches today. A few marks can make all the difference.
Updates
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
* 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 (now with many new images) is available as 2.5 x 3.5″ 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
* “Chapter 3″, my trucolors.info website now offers 22 of the top best photographs from the True Colors series available for purchase. Both the Artsy version and the original photo of each are offered as 11 x 14″ matted, unframed for $150.
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