When Time Comes in Gushes

Black gesso on watercolor paper. Acrylic painted in layers and manipulated. Collage element. Acrylic medium to attach handmade paper.

Le Jardin

Black gesso on watercolor paper. Added collage element and acrylic manipulated zinc white acrylic.

Free Your Heart From Hatred

This is a multi-media altar that opens and on the inside there is a Rumi poem. It is meant as a sweet look into a spiritual place. The metal tags on the outside say: Free Your Heart From Hatred and Love Your Life.
There is a Flicker feather at the bottom of the box, and on the inside a framed picture of a Buddha.

Honora

This is a large painting done in the same style as "Stay Awhile." It has beautiful and subtle layers of color and is soothing to view. Photo credit: Deb Teachout-Teashon

Multi-media shadow boxes.

Here are a few of my shadowboxes. I like to put found objects together into a fun story. Little scenes. This one is called "Wants Loving Man."
"No Thing is Any Thing"

"Snake Shaman"

What If You Do Nothing?

I've been influenced by different abstract artists, one of them being Kandinsky. When I first found him, I went sort of crazy and unleashed my inner Kandinsky, splashing and squiggling and generally having a lot of fun. Art is fun and is meant to inspire. I hope you are inspired to paint, if you aren't and want to.

A Surprising Universe Full of WIsdom

This is a canvas of shapes. I wanted to break out of my usual flower images and paint in the layers I loved; acrylic is transparet and good in layers. Here is the results. Many think it is cheerios in milk. Good kitchen painting, but really it is a surprising universe full of wisdom.

Swing Leaves

A painting resurrection. I hadn't been painting in some time, and then I painted this. For the longest time I didn't like it. Now I do. This I find interesting, as judgment changes how we approach our art. For years I've been practicing none judgment, and still am not able to be neutral. I do believe there is no good or bad art. Just art. Just expression. I'll continue to practice.

Two Drawings

These drawings were done from bits of shell I found on the beach, the obvious one being a mussel, the other a fragment. I've done numerous drawings of the spirals and curls of shells. They are lovely and the shapes intriguing. This is graphite on paper.

Fall from Grace

This is an acrylic painting on hardboard. I like the way the paint handles on hardboard--also called masonite. If you buy it at an artstore you will get good quality board that won't leak glue or pitch, or whatever it is that can come through your painting later and ruin it. This painting is symbolic of feeling the power of different forces scuttling me around in my life. I guess when I did this painting, I was feeling powerless on some level, now I know I'm in charge of my life. I make my own choices.

Flame

This painting is acrylic on canvas. When I painted this painting, I was thinking about how free I want to be and how the flame in me burns brightly. It is a statement of my lust to individuate. I like this canvas a lot, even though it is simple. Technorati Profile

My Old Studio

I'm part of an artist collective, which I was juried into a year ago. This was my first studio during a gallery walk. It was an icy cold night and I was freezing in this little room. I had hot cider and nice cookies. The walls were so red I could hardly work in this room, but my art looked good on the walls.

Now I'm in a room twice the size. It had a potter in it before and there was an unbelievable amount of clay dust. Now it is yellow and the walls are covered with my work. I love it.

Desert Shadow Box

This piece has an interesting feel to it, deserty, dry, warm, lonely. It's made from a cigar box. I found some interesting shaped boxes up at the smoke shop on 12th. This is a racoon skull. I've found more than one on my beachwalks. I've found other skulls too, and am facinated by the cranial bones, the sutures, the eye sockets. What's beneath the surface facinates me.

Ruby Bird

The colors on this piece are a little brighter than this photograph shows, but there is glass on the painting and I didn't want to take the frame off. My advice to any artist, which of course includes myself, is to photograph your work as you go along. It is so much easier to photograph work now. I used to take all my pieces someplace to have them made into slides. Most places accept pieces downloaded onto CDs. How easy is that? Well, just get a digital camera if you don't have one, and be sure to do it before you frame. I tell you, if you can be organized, it's the best thing for an artist.

When The Night Changes

From a photo I took at Manito Park. This isn't a spontaneous painting. I took the image from one of my photos. Many artists paint from photos, some paint photorealizm, others tweat the composition and lighting. I like to use a photo for a jumping off place. The spontaeous paintings seem more powerful and alive to me. They seem to be sending me information and energy. That sounds a little wooey, but this painting seems a little. I've included it because I'm working on being non-critical to my creations. I think this opens the door for more. If I criticise what I do and it is leading to something stupendous, I've slammed the door in my own face. Like in writing practice, just get down the first thought or image or impulse from the bottom of your mind. That's all there is too it.