The Lonely Spray Bottle

Pen & Ink and Watercolor 7x10.  Done for Illustration Friday's word "Lonely"

Circles and Squares

Recently in Seattle, 3-year-old Cole Taylor helped me draw a hotel with circles and squares.  That sketch inspired this 7x10 mixed media abstract.

Poppies

Oil on canvas 8x10 (with gold and ink)

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.

Starry Night

New 8x10 mixed media with Encaustics and embedded rhinestones.  Pictured here are Mono Lisa, Cherry Dog and their assorted friends.

Bald Eagle

Another new 8x10 mixed media painting

La Mariposa Hotel in Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica

#4 in my series of Encaustic mixed media paintings "Rooms with Views."  I'd love to go back to Costa Rica again and revisit one of my favorite travel destinations.

Lollipop Hill

Mixed media 8x10 revised with the addition of colored wax!

Shell Beach Motel in La Jolla, California

#3 in my mixed media with Encaustics series of Rooms with Views.  One of the best bargains in hotels used to be Shell Beach in La Jolla.  Situated near the cove, one could go snorkeling in the AM, then drive to the convention center in downtown San Diego for work at the comic convention, then drive back and watch the sunset in the PM.  My favorite room in 2002, when this sketch was done, was room 504.  Even then, the curtains were torn and there was mildew on the windows.  Unfortunately, since then the owners have let this prime location go completely to seed.  New reviews at tripadvisor.com rank the motel "terrible." 

Button World Domination

5x7 mixed media and Encaustics.

Attalos Hotel in Athens, Greece

#2 in my Encaustics series of mixed media paintings, "Rooms with Views."  The mini fridge and TV with my reflection was sketched in a room in Italy but the upper left view was sketched from the window of the Attalos Hotel in Athens on a hot, smoggy day in 2010.  All air conditioners were on high!.

The Attalos Hotel is in a great area of Athens if anyone is brave enough to go to Greece right now.

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. 

New Egg Tempera Paintings

Two new small 5x7 paintings on marble gesso on board. 
1.  Leaf Beetle (silver point, watercolor and pigment with egg yolk)
2.  False Idol (worshiping my brooch jewelry) - silver point, acrylic, watercolor, pigment and egg yolk and some glued on gold crosses I found in the driveway of Robson Harrington House in San Anselmo

Something Old and Something New

No, I'm not getting married (again).  I'm repainting old landscapes by changing background elements and/or adding birds.
"Crow in Marin," originally painted in 2009, got a partially new background (oil on canvas 20x24)
"Roman Arch, Pink Tree," originally painted in 2011, had a title change to "Roman Arch, Spanish Storks" when I added the birds in 2012.  (oil on linen 22x28)
"Yellow Road," originally painted in 2011, had a title change to "Wild Turkey," when I added the Guatamala ocellated turkey in 2012 (oil on linen 22x28)

Brick Wall

Digital Graffiti

Color Composition

A chair and light in the Indian Valley College art classroom.  Pastel, ink and oil on pastel board 8x10.

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)

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

In the City

Final 7x10 pen & ink and watercolor of a 4 part series.  City is loosely based on memories of Palm Beach, Florida

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)

Calla Lily

Silver point and egg tempera on marble dust on board 5x7.  New technique learned in Chester Arnold's art class.