And the Adventure begins!

After visiting with Kristin Kohl and seeing her print in the print show Dan and Kristin delivered us to airport. What a beautiful 90 degrees in Portland.

Not a lot of sleep on the plane to Charlotte. Arrived at 5:30 am leave for Rome at 6:30. Charolette, NC was inetesting. Went to the Harvey B. Gantt Center saw Art of the New Deal African American Artists in the WPA. Also a great park with books and poetry themed sculptures, sheets of brass throughout the park with poems! (Pictures to come next week!)

For the last several years, I have spent focused time in the studio on images of water: waterfalls, rain (gee, how come?) and water movement. Into these images kept creeping structures. They were mostly architecture of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. These images were from out trip in 2000 to Portugal and Spain. I thought it was funny but I’m an artist and funny things show up. These seemed slightly out of place but I just kept them. I know from past experience that the work will make sense later.  Now, they seem prophetic as Dennis & I get ready for our trip to Italy and our month long art residency in Venice, the vulnerable city on water.

I have added a couple of the prints here.

                     Pond Reflections, oil monotype, 9 in x 12 in

                     Underwater, watercolor monotype, 14.5 in x 16.5 in

New cloud paintings

These are part of a group of paintings I have in the works: dura-lar attached canvas.12" x 24"

Morning light

Early Morning Storm Brew

Morning

Marcy Baker Monotype workshop

Here are Dennis and my prints from Marcy's two day workshop at Sitka. Dennis on the left, mine on the right.

Closeups of Dennis'

Closeups of Mine:

 

Paintings

This is another painting in the 2013  group.

Steamboat Falls, 36 x 58", Acrylic on canvas.

This canvas is not quite done...it just might be  one of those pieces I just keep changing.
This is it's latest stage.
Colliding, 32 x 52", Acrylic on canvas.

Drawings

These are some of the pastel drawings that have been done with or as beginnings for the paintings in this series.

University Falls, Tillamook Forest, Oregon
25.5 x 20"

Munson Falls, Tillamook County, Oregon
25.2 x10"

Niagara Falls, Tillamook County, Oregon
25.5 x 10"

Cascading, 25.5 x 10"

Wailuanuimi Falls, Maui, Hawaii
25.5 x 10"

Waterfall Paintings

I have been working on a group of drawings and paintings that have started from waterfalls I have been visiting. Some I visited for the first time, as long a go as 2003. I have often done drawings from these photos. But after visiting some wonderful falls in Maui in December I found myself starting a series of work. I have included two of the paintings here:

 Cascading, 2013. 60 x 32", Acrylic on canvas.


















Niagara Falls, 2013. 60 x 30", Acrylic on canvas.