New Stuff

These are some of my seasonal art pieces.  

acrylic, paper and wildflowers

Playing Around

These new pieces are not part of my seasonal art experiments, but evolved from messing around with my sister during summer vacation

scuffed-up photograph with water colour

 mixed media collage

DragonFly

water colour and acrylic with bark

Seasonal Art

My favorite restaurants have menus based on local seasonal food.  So I thought why not experiment in local seasonal art.  I have been collecting leaves, bark, wild flowers and dead insects to as inspirational mediums.

Birch Leaves:  I do not know what the cause is, but the result looks like delicate lace.

Cicadas:  Every morning I find the remains from the night's cicada molting around the base of trees.  I have also found a few still attached to the trees.

Before a Thunderstorm

After a Thunderstorm

Today's Inspiration

What do you see at your local garden shop?

digital image, no enhancement

A Stray Thunderstorm

Trees

Watercolour and Ink on Bristol paper

Petrified

The Petrified Forest is amazing (especially if you are into rocks like I am).  The colours and patterns of the wood are beautiful.

Below is one of the pictures I took.

The top picture is not enhanced.  The bottom picture is enhanced.

The enhanced picture represents the images from my memory.  It was so colourful; that is what I remember most.

Escape

This is my submission to the Heine Brothers Coffee burlap sac contest.

The coffee beans have escaped.

Update:

I did not win the contest, but Escape (along with the other burlap sac artwork) is on display through June at the Gardner Lane Heine Brothers.  Stop by to see all the great work.

Cactus Eye

What a cactus sees through its hundred year old arms.

Koi Pond

A different view of things can open a world of imagination.

Seeds