Zentangle

ink on paper, 2.5" x 3.5"

Merge

acrylic on paper, 18.875" x 27"

Cycle

watercolor on paper, 18" x 26.875"

Fuse

color pencil on paper, 20.25" x 27"

Tread

gouache on paper, 18.75" x 26.75"

Turn

watercolor on paper, 18.75" x 27"

Recent Viewers

One of the ubiquitous clichés in social media is the “recent viewers/
recent readers” widget. The mosaics of faces, icons, drawings and photos have fascinated me. And so I decided to make a fictitious one. Some images were fun and some were dark. Creating a community of made up images proved daunting.

At the reception for a group show, this drawing was the most popular of my six pieces. Each time I’ve displayed my drawing, it has fascinated onlookers. During a recent conversation about the work, a non-artist was impressed.


color pencil on paper, 18.875" x 25.875"

Just Add Circles

The title “Just Add Circles” is my reaction to a recent online design trend that includes groupings of concentric circles as a pattern. Anyway, I played with circles inside circles, but I made it my own. Also, I drew vertical lines to break up my shapes as a positive/negative space game – if you will. I rendered the piece with graphite on Reeves BFK paper. It is a rag paper that can take a lot of abuse.


graphite on paper, 19.875" x 25.875"

Crop Addiction

A couple of years ago a friend on Facebook invited me to try a game called Farm Town. In short order I was addicted to the game. I also became hooked on a very similar game, FarmVille. Anyway, here is my gouache abstract painting celebrating both games. I can’t escape grids.


gouache on paper, 19.375" x 15.875"

Corners

graphite on paper, 17.625" x 25.125

Tools

color pencil on paper, 17.625" x 25.125

Keys

watercolor pencil on paper, 14.5" x 19.5"

Change

watercolor on paper, 11.75" x 14.625"

Drops

Here’s the first of five pieces I completed for an art show June 1st - 13th at the Louisiana State Archives in Baton Rouge, LA. It is gouache painting. I haven’t done that many with this cousin-medium to watercolor. With such a short deadline for this show, I stuck with ideas that could be generated very quickly.


gouache on paper, 11.75" x 14.625"

Artroom

mixed media, 11" x 15"

Bananas Fly

This was the fourth painting in this series of banana grid paintings. The colors came from a set of Atelier acrylic paints I was handed at the National Art Education Association National Convention in Minneapolis.


acrylic on canvas, 16" x 20"

Bananas Flip

This is the second of the banana paintings. With this one I decided to use variations of pink since it is a color that is normally associated with femininity in contrast the masculine banana.


acrylic on canvas, 16" x 20"

Bananas Fall

This is the first of a group of paintings using a banana shape and a grid. I cut out cardboard banana shape that I traced. As I went, I flipped and rotated it on the page. It started with my fury with a few students and with the impending Iraq War back in 2003. I painted acrylic on watercolor paper and then added florescent oil pastels on top.


mixed media on paper, 11.5" x 35"

MMII

This particular grid follows the change of my color palette in 2002. There were certain color combinations that stuck with each quarter. I worked a dot shape into this one. The piece continues my process of drawing harsh lines but then fuzzing them out.


color pencil on paper, 17.25" x 23"

Grid Study

In 2001, this drawing preceded the grid drawings and paintings that followed since. I never did do anything more than play with filling the squares to indicate different degrees of gray. Anyway, I'll have to play with some more graph paper. It was a fun way to work.


graphite on graph paper, 8 1/2" x 11"