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 .

Sea Weed

Full sheet 300 lb Arches w/c paper. Still Life of sea weed arranged by an out going tide left on a sunny sand beach made an interesting abstract pattern of line color and shape.

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My Art Class Notes

Framing made simple. For the practical watercolorists, framing in the same metal chop frames presents paintings in a consistent manner which avoids readjusting the eye due to a variety of frames. It also allows the practical reuse of frames, easier storage and the cost benefits the purchaser who is paying mainly for the art not the expensive frame.
The value of art should be greater than the value of framing.

Blog or Website

I'm trying to decide if a website benefitst artists. At this point I have a site with Yahoo at $110.00 a year but I think it is more of an ego display which costs my art income additiional expenses. Soooo...Bloggers what do you think?

Leaf Designs

New Pottery

Looking Back

It was wonderful to see the butterflies last year, I would not visit now due to the drug problems .