flight plan
24" x 24" oil on aluminum
Friday, March 03, 2006
Friday, February 24, 2006
Little church
12" x 12" oil on aluminum
I painted this for Judd and kay, longtime friends. Kay's mother is buried in the cemetary on a hill that overlooks this sweet old chapel.
We had dinner together last night and I gave them the painting. She told me the story of her mother's service in this chapel, and how they sang a song about coming home at last.
Thursday, February 23, 2006
Saturday, February 18, 2006
star wave albacore24" x 42" oil on aluminum
This painting took a while.... the wave honors japanese wood block prints of the seventeenth century, though Iv'e seen modern works using waves done in this style. It was so much fun to put my tuna here, with his moon halo, hero tuna, happy tuna, flying through the sea.
Friday, February 17, 2006
Sunset
12" x 24" oil on aluminum
Wallflowers gallery
Canby, Oregon
I painted this late last summer on a trip to our beautiful Lincoln city. I was delivering some work to Earthworks gallery there and attending the Robert Gamblin seminar at Sitka. The class was called expressionistic landscape. He called paint " emotions in a tube." I was overwhelmed and didn't want to stop painting at the end of class, so I brought my easel back to my room with me and sat on the ground next to the steps down to the beach. I painted until the sun went down, and still I wanted more. I scratched into the paint. I used colors I had never used before. I gave myself permission.
It was a wonderful experience.
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Friday, February 10, 2006
Thursday, February 09, 2006
Three moon lobster
18" x 48" oil on aluminum
Minnesota 2
I took a commission for a group of paintings for a steak and seafood grill in Minnesota. It has been so fun to get to paint some veggies and fruit in my quilt patterns. Another fun thing is the opportunity to have nine paintings with a single theme, but different subjects.
The only problem has been an unexpectedly impossible deadline...
I'll be able to finish, but just barely, I think. I was begining to think I made a promise I wouldn't be able to keep! After I promised myself I wouldn't do that any more. :)
Monday, February 06, 2006
Wednesday, February 01, 2006
Rainy day dream
18" x 24"
oil on aluminum
Here is a new windowsill meditation. The rain here has been relentless, unending. nearly 11" in Jan. 26" since October!
I needed to paint a jury piece for my Rose Festival application. I'd seen this style of window that morning in a magazine at my Doctor's office. I knew I wanted my Mt. Hood to be my view, and found a photo of the roses when I was looking through my mountain pictures. The pear I found at Fred Meyer, isn't she a beauty? I was thinking about being here in Portland, between the ocean and the mountain, so I found an old favorite shell to speak of the sea. After I got this far, I found myself wanting some red, so I added the cherry. I thought about it a few more days before realizing I wanted the blackbird. I'm thinking of the anticipation of flight, appreciation for the incredible sweetness of my life, I can close my eyes and hear the steady drumming of the rain, (painted in as the wallpaper of my room.) It's nice to imagine roses and mountains in my future.
Walleye
24" x 36" oil on galvanized steel
These walleye were so much fun to paint. I thought of them each going their own way, unaware of the passage of time. I left the moons behind each fish's head silver. I was thinking about the passage of time when I put in the phases of the moon. I enjoyed a color meditation as I worked with them. They travel all around the color wheel, with their light and shadow showing complimentary colors. It was interesting to work with the color values until they looked balanced. The backround was originally violet, but after living with it a week or so, I glazed it with hansa yellow medium, then drew my spirals in to reveal the violet underneath. This painting makes me want to jump!
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