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Saturday, October 5th, 2024
Prickly Pear Cactus (Sedona, AZ), 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper – 27H x 33W” framed, won Honorable Mention in Fusion Art’s 10th Annual Leaves and Petals Exhibition and competition.
Prickly Pear Cactus is native to the Americas including Mexico, an important food source for desert animals and for humans, but now threatened to extinction by a cactus moth that has no known natural predators in the US. In 2021, a wasp was exported from South America to Texas to help control the spread of moth devastation, with some success.
Elements of Nature
Monday, September 23rd, 2024
Moody Weather, Oregon Coast, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper. Framed size 27H x 33W inches. 
Won Best in Show and Featured Artist as part of the award, in J. Mane Gallery’s Elements of Nature 2024
Exhibizone’s Seasons: Summer 2024
Sunday, July 7th, 2024
Damselfly at Xi Niu He, China, (Rhino’s Horn River), 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper, Framed size 27H x 33W inches white mat and white wood frame with crackle finish.
Showcased online in Exhibizone’s “Seasons: Summer” 2024, July 8th – Oct. 8th
Urban Landscapes / Seasons 2024
Sunday, June 30th, 2024
Luminosity, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper, framed size 27H x 33W inches, white mat and white wood frame with crackle finish. Luminosity showcased and won a Platinum Award in J. Mane Gallery’s 2024 Seasons – Urban Landscapes online July 1st- August. Also in the Show:
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Butterfly Bush
Wednesday, June 12th, 2024
Showing in Exhibizone’s True Beauty June 12-Aug. 12th, 2024
Butterfly Bush – Buddleja davidii, Lake Wakatipu, Queenstown New Zealand – 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper. Beautiful invasion: Native to central China and an ornamental in North American gardens, the Butterfly Bush is viewed as invasive in many countries across the world. Originally drawn and posted April 7th, 2024.
Bald Eagles
Saturday, May 4th, 2024
Bald Eagles, juvenile watching mature in flight at Oceanside, OR. 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper. Framed size 27H x 33W inches.
Thumbnails show stages 1 through 4. Soft pastels don’t allow for too many changes, so the work had to be sprayed and set well before carefully making the juvenile eagle smaller to create a more convincible perspective. That also forced me to rework the sky and clouds, so now hoping those lines help with perspective.
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Saguaro Cactus
Wednesday, April 24th, 2024
Saguaro Cactus and surrounding scrub – January in the Sonoran Desert south of Phoenix AZ – 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper. This and the surrounding Saguaros all had either burn damage from forest fires or bacterial necrosis, a disease rotting them from the ground up. Local groups are rescuing Saguaros by cutting off an arm or the top and replanting them, helping to restore the fragile Sonoran Desert ecosystem.
Elk Falls Provincial Park 05
Sunday, April 14th, 2024
Elk Falls Provincial Park 05, Vancouver Island BC, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper. Framed size 27H x 33W”.
Spring Light
Friday, March 22nd, 2024
Spring Light, 18H x 24W soft pastels on watercolor paper. 27H x 33W inches white mat and white wood frame with crackle finish.
Moody Weather 02
Thursday, March 21st, 2024
Moody Weather 02 – Sunset Beach, Oregon Coast, 2nd version, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper