UP UP AND AWAY

1. A little fun with water color from one of my sketch books.

Paintings for Sale.

 Several of many 6" x 18" Water Color Paintings I have for sale. $50 -$100. Please share.

SOMEWHERE IN MY MIND

Winter Sketches form a Shut In.

Being snowed in can start to make a person go a little stir crazy. Fortunately I seem to do some of my best work when I'm just a little bit off. Over the last two weeks as the snow has grown deeper and my mood a bit darker I've some how managed to come up with all kinds of ideas. Here are three recent pages from my sketch book. Done in ink and then enhanced with a little water color.

Fall Sketch2010

A two page sketch from the sketchbook I take with me everywhere.

Road Trip

Tea Party

I original set out to create a Tea Party cartoon and then decided that I really wasn't in the mood to keep picking on people. Despite the fact that the movement bothers me I felt like I was starting to fall into a downward spiral of pettiness so once I started working on this I thought I'd see if I could come up with a picture that might fit a childrens book. Although the color of the table cloth bugs me a bit I thought I'd post it and see what kind of feed back I could get.

Painted Desert

I lived in the South Western United States for about twenty years and grew to love everything about it. When you grow up in the North East and are surrounded by trees and lakes and have to live through four unique seasons you find it hard to believe that a desert could be any thing other than a dry barren waste land. Nature has a funny way of surprising you. The shear beauty and open space is enough to inspire even the least creative among us to take up a brush and start painting or to write music and poetry. This is a painting inspired by a dream of a place I think I drove through years ago. It seems so long ago I may have imagined the place but then again what is reality?

Somewhere In My Imagination

I try to go for a walk in the woods every day before I start working and almost always I come home with more ideas than I will be able to complete. Here's one I've been working on in between teaching and all my other projects.

Paintings from My Sketch Book

Fly Over

I haven't been able to break in to the world of illustrating childrens books yet and hopefully work like this and several other pieces I'm working on will catch someones eye and the floodgates will open.