Stay Awhile

An acrylic painting done in the glaze style, many layers of transparent paint layered to create depth and a surface quality unique in color.

Shell Fragment

Shell fragment, one of five shell paintings from a series I did in 1996. I liked the colors found in nature, the peach and pink and grays. Very pretty and canvas made these paintings soft in texture.

Shell Fragment

This painting is about 18 x 18 inches. It is painted on canvas and I've used glazing and dry brush to get a transparent effect and for a solidity, or opacity.

Cat's Cradle

This painting has been donated to Orcas Island Artsmith, a nonprofit artist venue for writers and visual artist. It is acrylic on paper.

Two Birds

After I moved to Bellingham, my nephew died. At the memorial, his widow picked the song Three Little Birds. Three feathers appeared on the back porch. Later that summer I painted this painting, Two Birds.

Everything is Changing

This is a painting done on hot pressed paper. The paper has a gloss to it and it holds the paint on top. It gives the piece a more painterly appearance.

Silent Orchid

This painting was done in 1989, after I left my husband and moved home to Spokane. I stayed with a friend for awhile and painted this on her front porch. This painting is watery and has a lot of depth.

Roots

This painting is large, about 3 x 4. It is dark, yet moody. I has a sense of depth, because of the the way the light shines. It could be in water, although the photo I took as reference was of roots, an upturned tree in the woods.

Bird Of Paradise

This photo came out a little brighter than the actual painting is. But it is close and the orange plume of the flower is gorgeous, painting or no.

Money Plant

Money Plant. I painted this painting because I have always loved money plant, the fabulous apostrophes of seeds, the colors, purple and green and pink. A feast for the eyes.

Opening

This little painting became a bookcover. I love the abstract painters and wish to take my own abstractions further. This one is loose, and the photo doesn't show it's brightness. I like the line quality I achieved with a liner brush.

An Everyday Leaf

This is a tiny painting, 3x3. I was looking at larger paintings, 6x6, and was thinking it is a better size. 6x6 with an inch of white space and then the matte and frame. Makes a nice sized piece. This piece is between abstract and realistic. I like to put lines in the painting that become direction composition components.

Personal Altar

I made this altar from scrapes of plywood leftover from building the eaves of our house, the faucets? drilled wood under the eaves for air circulation and screened over so birds won't build nests. This altar has an angel theme, although I'm not big into angels. It also has keys and other symbolic images attached to it. I painted the wood with gold paint. It's hinged to sit on a table nicely.

Winter Birch

Winter Birch, and the reflections of trees and light in water. Acrylic on watercolor paper. A tiny painting--begun when I decided to do a painting a day. That lasted about a week. I'm not very good at setting myself challenges like that. But I did get about 7 paintings out of the deal. Sweet.

Evening Hawk's Quest: All My Relations

Evening Hawk's Quest: All My Relations