Another still life with sunflowers which is a theme I keep coming back to. It must be the spirit of Vincent Van Gogh in my studio influencing me. This is a collage using a wonderful piece of yellow dot paper (the dots are bits of wax) that my friends brought back to me [...]
I did this collage as I was experimenting with mark-making with ink on a piece of watercolor paper that already had a collection of random collage pieces on it. The abstracted figures emerged and I continued to pull them out of the chaos. The red traffic signal shaped element is intriguing to me. [...]
I painted this experimental watermedia piece on Yupo* several summers ago during an extreme drought in Colorado. There was an almost constant smoky haze and odor in the air from the many wildfires around the region.
I thought the intense hot colors of red, orange and rose had to be counter-balanced by shots of blues [...]
This experimental abstract will soon be hanging at Co-Art gallery on Santa Fe Street in Denver as part of the New Trends 2009 Show sponsored by the Colorado Watercolor Society.
