The newest figure which is in four parts, base, legs, body and wand with birds in flight has my art nouveau glaze mulberry color in her dress

Stoneware Wreath

Some adjustments to my favorite art nouveau glaze have added some color variations in this wreath like piece, extruded and decorated for use as a flower vase or candle holder.

Really Really RED

Watercolor can be very strong and intense as is this poured piece which required a red mat as well. I like suggestive abstractions rather than non-anything abstracts because it tips off the viewer to my idea. With no suggestion, viewers tend to try to find something which may be frustrating . Titles help, as with Klee's paintings, which took me some time and study to understand.
All painting is abstract more or less.
Since showing Big Hump Fire at Blue Whole Art Gallery, questions as to how the paint created the intensity and texture have been asked. The 140 lb Arches paper was tipped to center which caused darker paint in the middle and lighter at the edges. At the top the tree form was saved , note the run off line of paint. The moon shape was slightly enhanced and the shag tree poured with the dregs of darker paint I used dry pigment ( dried up w/c tubes) of alizarin and crimson lake with some fine grit undissolved.
There was a fire on the east side of Olympic National Park called the Big Hump Fire which seemed to fit

New Pottery

There are 24 birds on the round vase and 16 on the twisted vase

Opening at Blue Whole

The show was well recieved especially by the gallery artists who appreciated the different method and the flyer explaning the process .The watercolor "Remembering Georgia " let the faithful know I had not abandoned realistic work nor watercolor.
The use of leaves, roses and birds to enhance bowls and vases added to the dragon fly sprigging which had been popular.

Sailing Sailing

This oil monotype has many layers, textures and oil pastel to present a semi-abstract paiinting.

Orange Delight

Oil paint is more unpredictable than watercolor to me , probably because I have worked mostly in watercolor. Orange over bule should be more gray but the thickness of the orange or its opacity , provided this monotype with vibrant color.

Constellations

Glazed color with the depth of many layers of paint and the shifting of the plate enrich this suggestion of the sky at night .

Oil Monotypes

My oil monotypes where produced on an Ettan Press using plexiglass bevel edge plates with oil paint. The plate is coated with a thin skin of color which is transferred in the reverse to the paper. Additional layers of color , texture and design create a depth of glazing, achieving a painting unique to this process. Although these originals are called mono(one)prints, there may be a ghost print made if enough oil paint is left from the first run.

Masking with templates, plant material, brayer marks , wiping out ,over painting ,oil pastel,and using varied sizes of plates make this process thoughtful, creative and challenging.

Monotypes have that magic of surprise when they are pulled from the plate each time added elements change the color and design.

Featured Artist Show at Blue Whole

My Featured Artist Show for August at Blue Whole is all oil monotype except for one watercolor, Remembering Georgia.

Oil monotypes to be posted

Small Sculptured Continers

After painting the Blue Poppy watercolor,working with clay to sculpt blue poppy petals with the center stamens amd pistils as lids. These are small, not much larger than the actual flower.
This lead to a waterlily pad, rose petal and several other flower sculptures.

Kalaloch Beach

I like to try to capture the movement, weather and atmosphere of a place. I found this composition especially interesting, full of triangles and directional lines which expressed Kalaloch's long beach with the wind pushing the clouds.

This is one of my favorite watercolors partly for the place but also for the pleasure I find in "revisiting "it by painting the scene as nature arranges and rearranges land and sea.. Capturing the feelings of the place is a challenge to which watercolor is well suited.

Glazed Gestural Sculpture

Drapery clay figure 9 inches tall

Stoneware Art

The "Fire Head Ladies" vases are 11 and 9 inches tall with the art nouveau glaze over underglaze and stains mixed with the glaze.

Clicking the picture to enlarge for a better view.

Gestural Sculpture

Gestural sculpture stoneware similar to Catch the Wind are a challenge in clay. Patience is the most important ingredient when draping clay, has to have just the right amount of time to stiffen so it will stand up without cracking or losing its form.

Draped clay sculpture creates just one original.

These have been bisque fired , ready to glaze with my art nouveau glaze like Catch the Wind.

Blue Poppies

Blue Poppies also called Himalayan

Poppies like shady cool places but I have never been able winter them over. Rare even in there native Tibet, I saw these at Butchart Gardens near Victoria across the waters in Canada.

Catch the Wind

Catch the Wind is an abstract gestural clay drapery figure with my art nouveau glaze 12 inches tall.

Blue Glacier

Blue Glacier from High Divide
Late summer when the snow has finally gone from high divide, the view of Mount Olympus after walking the 17miles or so from the Hoh River Visitors center is a wonderful reward.
Defining ridges, valleys , cliffs and path ways to the mountain is an intense study of this spectacular place. I especially enjoy leaving the white paper for the snow patches which define the contour of the land.
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Minus Tide at Kalaloch

Crabs are sometimes stranded in the tide pools of a minus tide. Razor clams are common on this beach but the season is very limited and there are usually crowds of diggers.

It was a pleasure to be there in the quiet

early morning listening to the sea. The limited light accentuates the value relationships in an almost monochromatic scene with darks and lighs of blue and burnt sienna.

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Pussy Cats have joined the Owls

The method used to build the owls works well for cats also, they have lots of personality.

Owls

These Owls are made on the wheel and shaped by pinching the "ears" and cutting away the eyes and a hole in the back . Carving and adding clay to indicate feathers,nose and feet give each one personality.They can be used to hold flowers or pencils or just indicate that the owner is a wise old soul:)

Sea Weed Why Paint That

The previous watercolor has an abstract design which guides the viewer's eye due to its circular nature. As the ocean creates a vortex with the movement of the waves it leaves the sea weed high and dry as the tide declines and picks up the sea weed again on the returning high tide, moving it to a new arrangement and location
The painting was a nature arrangement with subtle artistic changes to express shape, color and the effect of light and shadow. Why- because it had not been seen in other work, it had a lot of interesting shadows in a shallow depth, memories of walks on the beach and it challenged the high key brightness of a rare sunny day on the Olympic Peninsula .