A Rose by any Other Name ... #12 of 31 best 2018 photos.

Neighborhood red rose in San Anselmo. 

Life is Beautiful

at every stage - especially if you are a rose!

April Rose

Rose at 5AM, after going to sleep at 4AM, to shoot the foggy San Francisco skyline at dawn from Sausalito. But my favorite pic of the day was taken when I got home to sunshine and shot a snake-like rose bud weaving its sensuous path through the leaves of the front yard lemon tree.

Valentine Rose Magnolia Crab

Romance can be a mixed blessing!  Beauty and crabbiness mixed, with photography and pen & ink illustration.

Two Rose Woodcuts

My first home cut & printed woodcuts!  Mixed media Rose and Rose II were printed on the Lindstrom Machine Works etching press inherited from my father.  Lindstrom Machine Works presses were manufactured in San Francisco at 231 First St. but the company is long gone.  Woodcuts measure 4x6 inches.  Prints are made with Gamblin oil-based inks printed on Reves BFK paper torn approx. 7 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches.

Taking a Break From Nursing To do Some Art

Playing with hot wax!  Top to Bottom:
Three 11 1/4 x 15 mixed media monoprints with hot wax, ink, gouache and pastel
Bottom two 6x8 clayboard encaustic map art with ink

Little Flower Paintings

Three Pansies (oil on handmade paper on board 5x7), Black Rose (scratched oil on board 5x7), Tropaeolum Tuberosum (oil on photo on fabric on board 8x10)