Mississippi Walkway
gouache, 5×4, 300 gsm cold press watercolor paper
painted en plein air, May 2024
Nature Journaling Class Bundle
Register by June 5th for all four classes and receive a $25 discount.
Register here.
While it is easy to focus on making pretty pictures, we will focus on bringing curiosity to our experience of nature. No drawing or painting skills are required, simply a desire and interest to learn.
Materials: Please bring a notebook (unlined sketchbook), pencil, eraser, and camp chair. Water, sunscreen, hat, and bug spray are also suggested, along with good walking shoes and weather appropriate clothing.
Optional: Binoculars, colored pencils/watercolor/gouache paints, waterproof ink pen (Micron or Uniball are good options).
I will have extra watercolor sets, colored pencils and markers available for use.
Nature Journaling – Trees
Enjoy the beautiful fall color and learn to draw and understand the differences between trees.
Saturday, September 21st, 9 am -11:30 am
Forest History Center, Grand Rapids, MN
While it is easy to focus on making pretty pictures, we will focus on bringing curiosity to our experience of nature. No drawing or painting skills are required, simply a desire and interest to learn.
Materials: Please bring a notebook (unlined sketchbook), pencil, eraser, and camp chair. Water, sunscreen, hat, and bug spray are also suggested, along with good walking shoes and weather appropriate clothing.
Optional: Binoculars, colored pencils/watercolor/gouache paints, waterproof ink pen (Micron or Uniball are good options).
I will have extra watercolor sets, colored pencils and markers available for use.
Our Christmas Tree Print
This Limited Edition Archival Giclée is printed on smooth 100% acid free cotton rag, natural white, heavyweight fine art paper. As an archival, museum quality paper, this print has a light fastness rating of 100+ years under normal indoor lighting conditions.
Size: 11 x14
Quince Print
This Archival Giclée is printed on smooth 100% acid free cotton rag, natural white, heavyweight fine art paper.
Size: 8×10 with a half inch white border
You Sing to My Spirit Archival Print – Cascade Falls
Just as the sky began to lighten, I wound my way up the Thompson Canyon, and bounced over the well worn highway to the Wild Basin turnoff in Rocky Mountain National Park. Meeting other painters, we started up the trail with our 30 pound packs. About a mile in, the trail became steep and covered in snow. We carried on, and the reward was well worth the effort when we reached the tumbling Cascade Waterfalls.
As I painted, I thought of John Denver’s song, Calypso. The phrase, “You Sing to My Spirit” played through my mind as I painted next to the cascade of water. This larger painting was created based on the plein air study.
This Limited Edition Archival Giclée is printed on smooth 100% acid free cotton rag, natural white, heavyweight fine art paper. As an archival, museum quality paper, this print has a light fastness rating of 100+ years under normal indoor lighting conditions.
The print is shipped in a protective clear envelope with acid-free foam core, ready to present as a gift or frame.
Each print is numbered and signed by the artist.
Size: 9×12 with a half inch white border
Limited to 250 prints.
Larger sizes available upon request.
The Courtyard Archival Print
For over 2500 years, the Etruscans have inhabited the hilltop town of Bagnoreggio. Once a haven from marauders, the residents now fight against time and nature. The volcanic tuff upon which the village was built tumbles down the hillside and disappears on the wind. Year after year, they rebuild and repair. And, the flowers continue to bloom. Someday, they too will disappear.
This Limited Edition Archival Giclée is printed on smooth 100% acid free cotton rag, natural white, heavyweight fine art paper. As an archival, museum quality paper, this print has a light fastness rating of 100+ years under normal indoor lighting conditions.
The print is shipped in a protective clear envelope with acid-free foam core, ready to present as a gift or frame.
Each print is numbered and signed by the artist.
Civita di Bagnoreggio, Italy
Size: 7 1/8×10 with a half inch white border
Limited to 250 prints.
original painting, egg tempera, 7 1/8×10
Hibiscus Archival Print
In the Victorian era, the hibiscus flower represented delicate beauty. In Hawaii, the hibiscus is often worn behind the ear as a sign of a woman’s marital status and as a symbol of hospitality. In Egypt, the flower was used as a medicinal calming tea. As I painted this flower over four months, I was reminded of Buddha’s Flower Sermon in which words are not required to understand its meaning.
For me, the story represents that the world and all of beauty exists in the one flower and that nothing is permanent. And, that painting this flower contains all the lessons of painting within this one painting.
This Limited Edition Archival Giclée is printed on smooth 100% acid free cotton rag, natural white, heavyweight fine art paper. As an archival, museum quality paper, this print has a light fastness rating of 100+ years under normal indoor lighting conditions.
The print is shipped in a protective clear envelope with acid-free foam core, ready to present as a gift or frame.
Each print is numbered and signed by the artist.
Size: 6×6 plus a half inch white border
Limited to 250 prints.
original painting, egg tempera, 6×6
Peonies Archival Print
This Limited Edition Archival Giclée is printed on smooth 100% acid free cotton rag, natural white, heavyweight fine art paper. As an archival, museum quality paper, this print has a light fastness rating of 100+ years under normal indoor lighting conditions.
Each print is numbered and signed by the artist.
Size: 12 x 10.5 inches with a one inch white border
Additional sizes available upon request.
Lilacs Archival Print
This Limited Edition Archival Giclée is printed on smooth 100% acid free cotton rag, natural white, heavyweight fine art paper. As an archival, museum quality paper, this print has a light fastness rating of 100+ years under normal indoor lighting conditions.
Each print is numbered and signed by the artist.
Size: 10 x13 with a one inch white border
Additional sizes available upon request.
Rabbitbush
While doing some plein air painting on a brisk January day, I came across this gigantic rabbitbush. It still had several of its colorful blooms. Startled by the sheer size of the bush and enthralled by the sky and frozen pond, I knew this would be my next painting.
I hoped to convey the drama of Colorado’s winter sky. Will the storm blow in or move on? I also wanted to create a sense of texture and the feeling of windswept space. By creating such a large bush, I hoped to instill a feeling of the size and magnitude. How old is this bush? What has it seen? How long will it remain?
16×20, pastel
framed
Old Friend
Along my favorite hiking trails, I look forward to seeing particular trees. I’m drawn to their shapes, the curvature of their limbs, the shade they offer, or the feeling they invoke. Over time, I feel like I know them, and that they know me. I’ve had my eye on this particular bend in the trail. I like the way the tree leans over, toward the bridge and the rock, greeting those that pass. Just as people are unique in their character, so are trees. As I painted this tree’s portrait, I felt like I was painting an ‘Old Friend’.
pastel, 12×15
en plein air
framed