July 23, 2008

• Art Lost and Found

  Dear C. Leo, I’m selling your art, and making some adjustments. I found it at the thriftstore in Cooliage, Arizona. 10 for 15! It has such a clean finish and heavy make, I could hardly believe my eyes. The only markings on the whole stacked set is a price [...]

May 27, 2008

• Airwavering

  I heard that if you slowed a cricket’s sound down, it sounds like a choir singing.  This is an amorphous cloud I was flying through the other day.  In a minute you can see the crickets down below.   Have a dreamy day!

May 2, 2008

• Cloaked Figure

  “Cloaked Figure,” 6 x 41/4″, mixed media on board, 2008, $ 65.

April 29, 2008

• Calla

  “Calla,” 15 1/2 x 18 1/2″, acrylic on canvas board, framed, 2008, $57.
  It began as a drawing of a woman lying with her legs propped up.  The vase of callalillies beside her mimic her shape.  The grace of movement in this painting is complimented by the multi-colored ornate frame, which I refinished to compliment this [...]

April 28, 2008

• Smile

  “Smile,” 15 1/2 x 18 1/2,” acrylic, sand, and pastel on canvas board, framed, 2008, $50.
  All the texture and movement to have a day. This one just smiles at you, and a pinch of this and a pinch of that to punch up the pigment.

April 24, 2008

• Sit and Breathe

  “Sit and Breathe,” 11 x 14,” charcoal and metallic paint on paper, 2007, $47.
  I did this drawing in preparation of a weeklong workshop in Taos, NM. It was a given by Stanislov Grof. He’s a pioneer in extensive research on non-ordinary states of consciousness. This drawing was done utilizing both hands [...]

• Earth Day 2008

  “Flower of life,”  14 x 16,”  mixed media acrylic, 2003-2006.  $147.
  Happy Earth Day!  I made this painting when pregnant with my daughter.  I was playing with the shapes of the flower of life, and recycling the cardboard of toilet paper rolls.  The tie-dyed fabric remnants of a skirt I made for my Aunt were perfect [...]

April 18, 2008

• On the menu

  “On the Menu,” 15 1/2 x 13 1/2″, oil on prepared paper, 1997, $55.

April 14, 2008

• Morning Star

  “Morning Star,” 9 1/2 x 8,” oil on canvas, 2008, $27.
  There’s something very serene about this painting. The colors quietly brighten a small space.

April 11, 2008

• Heemsteede

  “Heemsteede,” 8 x 10,” watercolor, 2000. $77.
  I lived in Heemsteede near Haarlem, about 20 minutes by train from Amsterdam. The people there are kind, economical, and progressive. I spent alot of time making paintings, seeing the sites, taking guitar lessons, and writing letters. My host families, and especially my host sister, [...]

April 10, 2008

• Holland

  “Holland,” 36 x 36,” oil and mixed media on canvas, 1998. $200.
  I was an exchange student for a year in The Netherlands. I reminisced about the trip in this painting. I had an olive green bike that took me wherever I wanted to go. The country is so full of color [...]

April 9, 2008

• Cheap Rothko

  “Cheap Rothko,” 8 x 10,” oil on canvas, framed, 2008.  $35.
  I just think that this plastic frame and the layered drag of this abstract go so well together, I’m not shy to compare to the great, but late Marc Rothko.  At least these colors are upbeat.

March 30, 2008

• Playground

  “girl in a bubble,” 18 x 23″ acrylic on paperboard, 2005.   $33.00
  Dava was playin on the playground, as we did almost every night in Austin. I sketched her in the blur of the plexiglass bubble.

March 27, 2008

• Pensive Persephone

  “Pensive Persephone,” 19 1/2 x 25 1/” acrylic on paper 1995.
  Here’s an oldie, but a goodie. I made this in the Netherlands when I was 17. She kept me company in my years of angst.

March 26, 2008

• yin yang dragons

  8 x 10,” acrylic on gallery wrapped canvas, 2008. $107
  Yin Yang Dragons. This was an action painting until Jay said that he saw Dragons in it. I then saw them, and illustrated what I saw. Then I used the fact that I had done so in a peace offering. So, he [...]

March 24, 2008

• Polke

  “Polke,” 8 x 10,” oil on canvas, 2004. $99
  Sigmar Polke is one of my very favorite artists. This reminds me both of his work, and of a particular dot image of Madonna and Child in an Ear, by Salvador Dali. I was quite the busy worker bee while painting this image, a [...]

March 21, 2008

• Op to my Tree

  “Op to my Tree,” 26 x 30,” oil and wax medium on canvas.  1998.  $250.
  Here’s an encaustic oil painting in the transparency series.  I had an op-art pic-nic dress and a shade tree.  My sister carries this around with her wherever she moves.  Thanks for never letting it melt, Molly.  Who doesn’t appreciate a good [...]

March 19, 2008

• Car-nation

  “Carnation,” 36 x 48,” oil on canvas, 2007. Sold.
  One of my favorites of the layered series. I smell the smoke drifting with the scent of the flowers in a moving vehicle on a rainy street. The hand of the driver holding a pull-tab aluminum can throught the curve of the steering wheel. [...]

March 18, 2008

• Scrattered City

  “Scrattered City,” 36 x 48,” oil and enamel on canvas, 1997. $700.
  This painting evokes memories from a colorfully lit china town, and the jumble of mixed languages. I used oil paint for the composition, then added the enamel squares. Later, I used this process for two paintings that sold on a museum tour [...]

March 17, 2008

• China Tiger Coffee Cloud

  “China Tiger Coffee Cloud,” 20 x 16,” mixed media on canvas, 2008. $77.00
  There are people dancing at a ball in the sky. A Royal tiger is poised above the tree tops. Coffee grounds swarm above like bees. This is a way fun action painting, that one could actually use as a [...]