Old San Antonio Road

Acrylic

11 x 14 on Stretched Canvas

Painted with palette knife.

This fellow was there to greet us when we were visiting Brice Canyon.

I took his picture with the intent of painting his portrait.  I call him

The Embassador

16 x 20 wrapped canvas Acrylic

Brush and Knife

 

Matilija Poppy

I've been so enjoying painting with acrylics.  I had tried before but was never satisfied either with the process or the finished project.  This time however, I first started using them in a very free and undefined way, intuitively, just slapping on paint and seeing what happened.

In this painting I used more of a purposeful approach.  I knew before I began, what I wanted to paint and I had a photo that I had taken a few years ago.   I kept reminding
myself not to get to fussy and to stay loose.  I very pleased with the outcome.

11 x 14  on wrapped canvas.

I seem to be on a roll right now and I'm just going to go with it.  Really enjoying working with acrylics at this time.  I've tried them before but wasn't satisfied with what I did.  I think that my new approach is working for me.  Just attack the canvas and see where it goes.
Floral #I  Acrylic on paper, size 16x20.

Some recent new paintings after being gone for a while.
I've been experimenting with acrylics in what I call "intuitive" style, which simply means I have no plan when I start laying paint on the canvas and wait until the painting "speaks" to me and tell me what it wants to be.

                                    Primeval Forest 8 x 10 acrylic

                                    City Scape 18 x 24, Acrylic on wrapped canvas

Old Pump House

A few years ago as my DH and I were riding around some country roads near our home I spotted this old pump house.  It was listing quite badly and I thought I should record for a future painting.  These are disappearing quickly in our area and this one is gone now, knocked down by a severe winter storm.  Glad I stopped and shot it.

                                    Watercolor on Fabriano Paper  11 x 14

Grapes

                                     11 x 14 Arches Paper #140  Transparent WC's

This was a fun painting to do.  Took me 10 hrs. of painting time, over 5 days.
I'm going to keep this one for a while and may make some prints of it for sale.

The Rope Swing

                                    Watercolor 9 x 12
This is a place where I love to go and sit.  It's in a Bay Forest boardering a lush meadow.  The smell of the bay is heddy and sometimes the wild turkeys pass through.

A Lonley Place

                                    Watercolor  9 x 12

Mt. Shasta

                                    14 x 20 Rough Watercolor Paper

Floats

Done from my own photo taken in Olema, CA.

Callenish Stones, Outer Hebrides, Scotland

Watercolor 11 x 15 on Paper