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Tuesday, March 3rd, 2020
Renewal: Mt. St. Helens, WA with Indian Paintbrush wildflowers. 18H x 24W inches soft pastel on 140 lb cold pressed.
Left image shows work as it began. Painter’s tape is used on every work on paper to keep edges clean and allow room for mat and framing. Workable fixative sprayed at various phases really brings out colors, deters unwanted blur of colors while working, plus renews the surface to fix up or brighten areas that have become dark or slippery from too much buildup.
Foxglove
Sunday, February 9th, 2020
Foxglove, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper – not available – not happy with this so I ripped it up, but will try again in the future.
Forest Abstract: Winter Spirit
Saturday, January 18th, 2020
Forest Abstract: Winter Spirit, 12H x 14W inches limited palette watercolors on 140 lb cold pressed.
Lake Louise
Thursday, January 2nd, 2020
Lake Louise, 16 x 20 inches acrylics on canvas
Nimkish Lake Sunset
Sunday, July 7th, 2019
Nimkish Lake Sunset, 12 x 12 inches acrylics on canvas. Frame unnecessary.
Loosestrife
Friday, June 28th, 2019
Loosestrife: beautiful invasion, Violet, ON Canada – 12 x 12 inches acrylics, crackle medium on canvas, frame unnecessary.
Store-bought canvases are really slippery, so I’ve started using crackle medium to give the paint something to hold onto. It also is great for subtle textures and building layers of color. For more texture, the medium can be manipulated while wet. It softens the paint layer/s below and can be scratched, lifted or molded into shapes with a brush.
Goldenrod
Tuesday, June 25th, 2019
Goldenrod, 12 x 12 inches acrylics on canvas, frame unnecessary.
Forest Spirit
Monday, June 24th, 2019
Forest Spirit, 12 x 12 inches acrylics on canvas, frame unnecessary
Gale Creek
Wednesday, June 12th, 2019
Gale Creek, 12 x 12 inches acrylics on canvas, frame unnecessary. 2nd entry for the Square Foot Show, Bismark, ND August 6th-30th, 2019
Artavita Contest finalist
Saturday, June 1st, 2019
This piece was a finalist in the Artavita competition for the front and back covers of the International Contemporary Masters Volume 13, June 2019.
Winter Forest: Dogwood, 14H x 20W inches watercolors on 140 lb cold pressed, 21H x 26″ framed size. In the beautiful, organized chaos of a winter forest in Pacific Northwest, rain brings out the subtleties, in particular the red branches of wild Dogwood complimented by the surreal green colors of moss on every tree.
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