Blue-Crowned Motmot Monotype

Best unadulterated print of mine, made during the 2nd San Anselmo Printmakers artwork day, was this blue-crowned motmot chine colle monotype.   The process included an Adobe Illustrator B&W drawing, of a motmot bird collaged into a photograph of ginger, taken in Maui, then printed on Kozo paper, then glued to 100% cotton rives bfk paper, then monoprinted with akua inks and liquid pigments using a polycarbonate plate.

Loon Button Garden

Version B with layered feather pattern.  Just playing with Photoshop.

Hearts and Birds

More pattern making, with the help from a few good books:  A Field Guide to Fabric Design by Kimberly Kight, published by C&T Publishing, Inc. over in Lafayette, CA, and Mastering the Art of Fabric Printing and Design by Laurie Wisbrun, published by Chronicle Books in SF.

New Conceptual Bird Portrait - Brown Pelican

Rough mock-up for the first in a new series of planned 36" x 36" oil on canvas portraits of birds with patterned backgrounds.

Maui Vacation Paintings

Top:  "Maui Cardinals in a Lemon Tree" 7x10 watercolor, ink, pastel & marker.  I've seen two of these cardinals in Hawaii but not yet the brown-headed variety

Middle:  "Maui Ginger" 7x10 watercolor & ink.  These alpinia speciosa (non edible ginger plants) were tucked away behind the banana trees in Eva and Brian Daniells yard

Bottom:  "Impressions of Maui" 7x10 watercolor & pencil.  This abstract is based primarily on the incredible hike part way down the crater in Haleakala National Park

Three Sea Gulls

"I want what he has," said Jonathan Seagull to his friend.

New oil painting 18" x 48"

Something New

Top: 
New oil on linen 18" x 48"  "Solana Beach Egret"

Bottom:
11" x 14" pencil sketch on 400 series Mixed Media paper
Homework assignment #1 done for Chester Arnold's drawing & composition class
"RoShamBo" (Rock, Paper, Scissors)

Funky, New T Shirt Designs

Hand painted on good quality cotton Ts.  Paint from Dharma Trading.  A little messy, maybe, but at least they are original.   They also go through the wash with no bleed or degradation.  In top pic, note Olympics on TV in background.  My new sport, painting, isn't quite as much exercise but just as much fun.

Flying Into the Rainbow

Another new 8x10 mixed media with Encaustics.  It's companion "Starry Night," is now hanging in Cole and Wilson's bedroom.

Balancing Bird

5x7 mixed media and encaustic

Button Bird and the Pink Roses

Digital composite 8x10

What's New

Night Heron:  oil on linen 18x48
Southern California Sunset oil on canvas 16x20
SundownRedo oil on linen 22x28

New Works

Five new small paintings (most 8x10):  Hand with $20 (egg tempura on marble dust), Cityscape (oil on photo on fabric on board); Row, Row, Row Your Boat (oil on photo on fabric on board); 3Women Running (oil on canvas board); 4 Blue Tits (oil on marble dust on board)

Blue Songbird

More birds and another paint over.  This time I painted over Pink Candy.

"Where are the children?"

Two crows discuss the change in nest contents.  Repainted oil on canvas 12" x 16" originally posted here.  For better or worse, I'm adding birds to a lot of older paintings. 

Four New Caledonia Lorikeets

New oil on canvas 16x20

Woodpecker

New 16x20 oil on stretched canvas.  This Pileated woodpecker is based on a fun photo found on the internet at http://cristinasarno.blogspot.com (link is here) set against a photo of trees I took around San Geronimo.  Although, on occasion, I have noticed acorn woodpeckers in my backyard , I haven't yet been graced with a Pileated woodpecker.  Some cool acorn woodpecker photos can be found at www.roysephotos.com (link is here)

Red Parrot

Frustration resolved?  After painting over "Two Eggs" with "Balloon Seeking Marble," I was still unhappy with the result so painted over the piece again with this "Red Parrot."  I like it enough to leave it alone now.

Birds On The Fence

Spoonbill is a Gregarious Bird

New oil painting on stretched linen 28"x22."  The Spoonbill is one of my favorite birds, although we don't have them in California that I know of.