Balancing Bird

5x7 mixed media and encaustic

I'm in Love

with wax!  #1 of several new Encaustic & mixed media paintings on the theme "Rooms with Views."  This 8x10 is of the view from my room in the Hotel San Donato in Bologna years ago with a made up balcony and little me dreaming of the future when I would travel to Italy for business.

Time Travel

Transporting my younger self into a swimming pool in Ibiza to combat the heat in California

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

Mixed Media Collage Vignettes

These new mixed media collages are composed of scans of real objects, watercolor and oil. paintings, digital paintings, etc. printed on Epson Velvet Fine Art paper glued on marble gesso-covered boards, some treated with various acrylic gels for texture, then painted with egg tempera, pigment and oil paints.
1.  "Menage a Trois" 5x7 (paper prints from a section of "9 Parrots in Orange Tree" 2007 oil painting)
2.  "Cadillac Cat and Rat" 8x10 (paper print of Cadillac digital painting combined with J.L. Autrey's cat watercolor and rat china painted tile)
3.  "Lollipop Hill" 8x10 (paper print of flowers is from a section of "Garden," 2011 oil painting)
4.  "Sea Food" 8x10 (paper print of surfers in Solana Beach is from "Sundown," 2012 oil painting), one apple was painted by Matt Taylor, another by Amber Autrey Wilson Taylor.
5.  "Underground Love" 8x10 (paper print is of scanned geraniums, ribbons and other real objects)

People, Places and Things

And finally, a few new oil paintings:
1.  "Sundown," oil on linen 22x28.  This family exploration painting follows the series begun with "Laura," then "Girl at the Window" (updated version below), and "The Witching Hour."
2.  "Eyes in the Skies," oil on linen 16x20.  The first in a planned new series of clouds.
3.  "Chester Arnold Painting," oil on marble gesso on board 8x10.  Painting of my famous art teacher who posed for his art class at Indian Valley College while he painted.