Wood Storks at Tuscawilla Park

Watercolor on Arches framed 24" x 30"

Struttin'

Watercolor Batik on Ginwashi Rice Paper 10" x 14"

Virginia's Garden

Watercolor on Arches 140#, 12" x 18"

Catch Us If You Can

Watercolor on Arches 140# paper -Inside mat 13" x 17" - Framed 18" x 22"

Cock of the Walk

Watercolor on Arches 140# paper - Inside mat 10-1/2" x 13-1/2"- Framed 16" x 20"   

Sold

All About Color

Watercolor on Arches 140# paper - Inside mat 10-1/2" x 13-1/2" - Framed 16" x 20"   

SOLD

Early Morning Visitors

Watercolor on Arches 140# CP - Inside mat 10" x 14" - Framed 16" x 20"

Collection of Rafat and Rashid Ishaq

Sandhill Crane

Watercolor on Arches 140# paper - Inside mat 10" x 14"- Framed 16" x 20"

A flock of these majestic birds have made their home at Tuscawilla Park, one of Ocala's city parks near downtown. Their white plummage, accented with black is ststriking.

This colorful rooster rules the barnyard at the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings homestead.

Fibers in the rice paper add interesting texture to a batik painting. In the batik process, increasingly darker watercolor washes are alternated with the application of melted wax on the rice paper to preserve the lighter layers of color, eventually covering the entire painting. The final step the removal of the wax by ironing the piece between sheets of newsprint.

As far back as I can remember, my mother fed the birds that came to her garden.

The hollyhocks still grow in the garden and beside the house as they have for decades,

tiny pnk ladies that entertained the imagination of a little girl.

My friend and mentor, Jean, from the West Pasco Art Guild, shared photos taken of a garden pond in St. Petersburg that became the inspiration for this painting. I decided to apply gesso and unique materials to the paper to create a textured, semi-realistic background. I drew the shape of the crane sculpture and worked around it, preserving the white of the paper. Acrylic ink was used to suggest the goldfish, but the painting is primarily watercolor, and totally done with water-media.

This painting was inspired by a rooster that I photographed as he strutted around the yard of the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings home at Cross Creek.

This painting was inspired by a photo taken by Ray Jowers and used with his permission. The background is a wash followed with negative painting to carve out a suggestion of a tropical tree philodendron.

Early one morning as we read the newspaper in our den, this pair of cardinals appeared in the palm tree just outside the window. I captured them in a digital photo and painted the scene with a suggestion of our house in the background.

We often watched and photographed a pair of sandhill cranes as they fed  along the banks of the retention pond behind our home in New Port Richey. I painted this one striking a graceful pose as it preens its feathers.