Ghost with a Rose

"Ghost with a Rose" 10x8 inches, acrylic on panel
A graceful ghost dancing through a cemetary for a Halloween theme.

Ghost with Kingfisher and Orbs

Title: "Ghost with Kingfisher and Orbs"
Size: 6x4 inches
Medium: acrylic on wood
Genre: Fantasy

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This one is limited palette, with thalo blue, vermillion, cadmium red, black, white, and a tiny tiny touch of yellow ochre.  Photo credit for kingfisher: Russ Bridges. The figure is from one of my lifedrawings. And the orbs, well, they just show up on their own. Artist signature is on her belt.

Sea Shanty

"Sea Shanty"

Size: 24x30

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Genre: Fantasy

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Rapunzel underwater

sang as mermaids do.

A shining seahorse drew her 

from her shanty of a tower,

and when the pair took flight,

morphed into a stately knight,

because she asked him to.

This one combines a trip to the Terlingua Ghost Town with of my love of underwater scenes. Terlingua is in the Big Bend area of Texas, and parts of that desert landscape were once under sea many eons ago. The Ghost Town has many fascinating adobe houses in various states of decomposition-- one of which particularly caught my eye and ended up in this painting. Also shown are the desert mountains in the background. The dark areas in this painting will form a vague shape similar to the state of Texas if you squint your eyes and use your imagination.

What do desert and ocean have in common? Perhaps it is that they are teeming with life forms not usually seen unless you go looking for them, and that there is a sense of vast expanse experienced in both environments.

I started this painting back in 2014 and only now came back to finish it-- life had intervened; there was caregiving for a beloved family member, the Hospice time, and the aftermath of tying up all the loose ends that people leave behind. 

Terlingua Joe

"Terlingua Joe"

Size: 6x6 inches

Medium: acrylic on panel

Genre: Figure

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Recently, Austin actor Greg Holt modeled for our figure session, wearing his cowboy outfit. Just for fun, I put him in the Terlingua Ghost Town, which we visited on a recent trip to Big Bend National Park out in west Texas. The ghost town is mixed in with modern buildings, which gives the place an eerie yet funky and charming feeling. The old ruins were originally a mining town for mercury mines.

I'm having a great time exploring new concepts and ideas in painting.  I plan to do more West Texas themes.

Halloween Ghosts

"Ectoplasmic Touch"
Size: 7x5 inches
Medium: Acrylic
Support: Stretched canvas
Genre: Fantasy
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An old theme, revisited. A few years ago I did an ACEO of this one, below. I'm not sure if trying to repeat the past is such a good idea; still there are things about the newer version that I like. In the end, it comes down to getting out the old sketchbook and coming up with a good initial design, which certainly could reinterpret past elements in a new way.




Here's the older version:

"A tangle of ectoplasm" ink and watercolor ACEO. Sold.