Brooke, 11 x 14 inches graphite on paper

Nimkish Lake Sunset, 12 x 12 inches acrylics on canvas. Frame unnecessary.

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, 12 x 12 inches acrylics on canvas, frame unnecessary.

Forest Spirit, 12 x 12 inches acrylics on canvas, frame unnecessary 

Change, a change for me and also a change of seasons, 12 x 12 inches acrylics on canvas, frame unnecessary. Signed on the side so as to not intrude on the composition.

Bachelor’s Buttons, 12W X 12H x 1D inches acrylics on canvas. Frame unnecessary.

Gale Creek, 12 x 12 inches acrylics on canvas, frame unnecessary. 2nd entry for the Square Foot Show, Bismark, ND August 6th-30th, 2019

Double Daisies, 12 x 12 acrylics on canvas, frame unnecessary. Entry for the Square Foot show in Bismark, ND in August. There is still another month to paint more to choose 2 entries from.

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.