Flowers

A bouquet of summer flowers done in watercolor.

Gladiolus

Gladiolus comes from Latin and is the diminutive word for a sword.

Sunshine

The remains of a sunny day done in watercolor.

Bougainvillea

Red bougainvillea growing in front of a house done in watercolor.

Bougainvillea

Red bougainvillea growing over a sunny wall in watercolor.

Forest

A misty forest done in watercolor.

Trees

A study of trees.

Cuckoo

The cuckoo bird is a brood parasite. The cuckoo lays its eggs in the nests of other bird species. The cuckoo chick will push the other eggs and chicks out of the nest and monopolise the food provided by the nesting birds.

Sea

I used a three color wash in this painting. The sky was purple and blue. The sea was blue and green. And the hill were washed with green.

Sunset

I overworked this paper and the colors did not come out as I wanted.

Sea

I painted the clouds using the nijimi technique. Nijimi in Japanese means to bleed. The bleeding produces a lighter halo around the brush stroke.

Moon

Harvest Moon

Moon

An autumn moon with a mackerel sky

Chestnut

A color study of the Chestnut Tree.

Chestnut

The American Chestnut Tree was almost wiped out by a blight fungus imported from Asia. An new American Chestnut Tree has been created using genetic material from Asian Chestnut Trees. Efforts are being made to repopulate North America with the new fungus resistant tree.

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The "Thinker" pose.

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A different day of Life Class, but with a male model.

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Part of this page was taken up with hand studies.

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Two poses on one piece of 140 pound watercolor paper. This is posting number one hundred.

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Life drawing class has begun. This five minute sketch was made with an Itoya Doubleheader Calligraphy marking pen. The ink is water soluble so a waterbrush pen will liquefy the dark ink and spread it.

Summer

A summer view out over the water to a distant shore.

Moonlight

Summer flowers in the moonlight.

Trees

A simple forest painting of trees and critters.