Cosmic Tea Dragon

Title: Cosmic Tea Dragon
Size: 8x10
Medium: Acrylic
Genre: Fantasy

It's always wonderful when a new idea comes along. And this one is Cosmic. Accordingly, I have learned how to do splatter painting, so that the stars will look all right. What's the story? If you drink this tea, your mind will have the strength and firey resolve of a dragon, and the brilliance of a star!

Sunset

Title: Sunset
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 7x5 inches
Genre: Figurative

Started from live model, finished from photo.

Anna's Cats

Title: "Anna's Cats"
Medium: Acrylic on panel
Size: 5x7 inches
Genre: figurative

Started from live model, finished from photos. Her pensive expression gave me the idea of providing her with some company.

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Meow

Title: Meow
Medium: Acrylic on panel
Size: 10x8 inches
Genre: Animals

Fun cute fluffy kitty cat with iridescent gold background and iridescent border.

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Big Old Frog

Title: "Big Old Frog"
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
Size: 8x10 inches
Genre: Animals

A big old frog, just for fun!
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Who Will Win the Golden Key?

Title: Who Will Win the Golden Key?
Medium: Acrylic
Genre: Animals, Fantasy
Size: 5x7 inches

The fish thinks he's got a good chance to take the key...but here comes the octopus. Now, what?

Fish Temple Redux

Title: Fish Temple Redux
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Genre: Fantasy, Animals
Size: 8x10 inches

This is one I started three years ago, and finally finished. Decided it was too barren, so I added some corals and some extra fish. If you search this blog for "fish temple," you can see the original.

Backstage

Title: Backstage
Medium: Acrylic on panel
Genre: figure
Size: 7x5 inches

Started from live model, finished with photo. I wanted to get a sense of the tension of waiting backstage, while onstage and unseen, bright energy is flowing.

The Hatchling

Title: "The Hatchling"
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Genre: Figure, fantasy
Size: 8x10 inches

This is part of a series of the model in the same pose, holding something. In this one, she's embracing a young dragon, just hatched. Her hair, the dragon's tail, and the tree form a triad symbol. There are also triad symbols on her robe. The triad means different things in different cultures, such as mind, body, spirit; thought, feeling, emotion; creation, preservation, destruction; power, intellect, love. In my own thinking, a Dragon symbolizes creativity, power, and wisdom.

Owl Be There

Title: "Owl Be There"
Medium: Acrylic on canvas panel
Size: 7x5 inches
Genre: Animals

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Owl and moth in purple with iridescent pink and gold background. There are traces of calligraphy beneath the layers on the background. It says, "Owl be there."

Calligraphy Heart: Love Conquers All

Title: "Calligraphy Heart: Love Conquers All"
Medium: Acrylic on canvas panel
Size: 6x6 inches
Genre: Abstract

Written and overwritten in calligraphy are 3 words: the classic saying,  "Love Conquers All. " Some parts are legible, some are not. Tiny hearts, dots, and iridescent touches add to the fun.

Courage and Wisdom Caught Me Napping

Title: Courage and Wisdom Caught Me Napping
Medium: Acrylic on panel
Size: 5x7 inches
Genre: Magic Realism

This is an allegory about how it's easier to remain comfortably asleep instead of waking to face the challenges that courage and wisdom have to offer. It's a study for a larger painting.

Coded Message from Famous Artist

"Coded Message from Famous Artist"
5x7 inches, acrylic on panel

The figure is done from a live model. The background is an encrypted quote from a famous artist, with a red herring or two thrown in to make it a little harder to decipher. The code itself should be easy a good cryptologist to decipher. Feel free to try!

I've always loved secret codes. I used to make them up when I was a kid. Many years later as an adult I found out that my Dad was a code breaker in World War II. I guess it must have been in the air.

Sleeping Mermaid

Title: "Sleeping Mermaid"
Medium: Acrylic on panel
Size: 8x8 inches
Genre: Fantasy

Done from a live model at an art group session, and her dress just said "Mermaid!" to me, so I went with it.

Loch and Key

Title: Loch and Key
Size: 9x12 inches
Medium: Acrylic on panel
Genre: Fantasy

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A Mermaid with the key to the Loch. Her fishy friends are floating hearby.

Watermark is NOT on original painting, nor does it appear on prints or merchandise.

Fish Story

Title: "Fish Story"
Genre: Animals, Fantasy
Size: 5x7 inches
Medium: Acrylic on panel

The big fish is splaining something to the little fish. The octopus has heard it all before.

Hog Heaven

Title: "Hog Heaven"

Size: 5x7 inches
Medium: Acrylic on panel
Genre: Fantasy, animals

A fantasy involving a couple piggies.

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Terlingua Ruins

Title: "Terlingua Ruins" 
Genre: Landscape
Medium: Acrylic on panel
Size: 5x7 inches

Terlingua was originally an old mining town in west Texas, near the Big Bend. If you go there, you'll see that the ghost town ruins are mingled in with modern buildings and residences.

Desert Ruins

"Desert Ruins"
5x7 inches
Acrylic on panel
Genre: landscape

These ruins are on the Dorgas-Sublett hiking trail in Big Bend National Park, Texas, USA. In the background are the Chisos Mountains.

Big Bend Adobe Ruins -- and a Rabbit

Title: Big Bend Adobe Ruins

Medium: Acrylic on panel

Size: 6x6 inches

Genre: Landscape

Can't stop painting the Big Bend area, so I'm just going to continue. This is the Dorgan-Sublett trail, which is near the Santa Elena Canyon, and features 2 or 3 adobe ruins. The cliffs in the background are in Mexico, and in between runs the Rio Grande. The part where there is green grass in the way back is near the river bank.

Title: "Rabbit, Revered"

Medium: Acrylic on panel

Size: 7x5 inches

Genre: Fantasy, Magic Realism

Just a bit of fun with a bunny and an Ionic column. The bunny is really a ceramic figurine, and the column is one that I made out of clay, just for paintings such as this one.