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Studio & Workshop
I make watercolor and acrylic paintings, stained glass, woodworking projects, model railroads, and photography, with my hands, my imagination, and sometimes the story behind it.
Making and writing have always helped me understand the world and myself. It all posts mixed together, as I finish it, but you can click a tag to see just one kind of project.
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06-19-24 6:59 pm #art#painting#watercolor#study
The Grays
Leftover Payne's Grey watercolor turned into a study of shades and shapes.
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06-18-24 9:38 pm #art#painting#watercolor#study
Winding Down with Watercolor
A twenty minute watercolor sketch before bed using leftover paint.
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06-16-24 10:58 pm #art#painting#watercolor#finished
Five Stars
An unplanned watercolor sketch of dancing stars that turned out better than expected.
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08-24-22 10:13 pm #art#painting#watercolor#finished ▦
Vermilion Series
Twelve monochrome watercolor pieces painted with one tube of vermilion paint.
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06-14-22 4:57 pm #art#painting#acrylic#finished ▦
Frangible Red
A painting born from my cancer and my brother's death. On how fragile, how frangible, life really is.
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01-25-20 11:18 pm #art#painting#watercolor#color chart#study ▦
Be Colorful with Limited Palette
A limited palette study using just six watercolors, mixing each one against the others.
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09-01-19 5:45 pm #art#painting#watercolor#finished ▦
The Urban
Oddly enough, I rode my bike to Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens to get away from the city. Yet somehow I ended up painting the urban in my sketchbook anyway.
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08-05-18 9:20 pm #art#painting#acrylic#wip
Relationship
An abstract still sitting on the easel waiting for the courage to finish it.
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11-24-17 5:47 pm #art#painting#watercolor#study#color chart
Watercolor Color Chart, 2017
Hoped to spend Black Friday outside, not shopping. Got sick instead, so I painted a watercolor color chart, easy and mindless.
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06-30-12 6:00 pm #art#painting#acrylic#abstract#mixed media#polymer clay#finished ▦
Subconscious at Work II
A smaller piece made in one evening between chemo treatments to show my mom the process.
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06-06-10 11:38 pm #art#painting#acrylic#finished ▦
Elder's Eye
A surreal painting inspired by a Giant Pacific octopus at the Seattle Aquarium in 2010.
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04-06-08 7:20 pm #art#painting#acrylic#study#finished
Wave Study
A study of a cresting wave painted in acrylic, practice for brushwork before the next piece begins.
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12-31-07 8:05 pm #art#painting#acrylic#abstract#mixed media#polymer clay#finished ▦
Subconscious at Work I
An experimental piece made without any conscious plan, using acrylic paste and polymer clay balls on wire mesh.
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04-29-07 7:34 pm #art#painting#acrylic#abstract#finished
Textured Background II
Another desktop wallpaper texture, painted straight in amber instead of shifted digitally like the first one.
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04-29-07 7:03 pm #art#painting#acrylic#abstract#finished
Hanging of the Fire
A ten minute painting made on a dare an orange sun hanging over the sea by thin threads.
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05-07-06 10:30 am #art#painting#acrylic#abstract#finished ▦
Textured Background
A textured background made from acrylic water and cloth later shifted digitally into other colors.
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12-13-05 10:19 pm #art#painting#acrylic#abstract#finished
Still Purple
A still moment watching Jolynn read, and a single purple sphere frozen in place against a quiet green background.
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08-21-05 5:52 pm #art#sketching#study
Self-Portrait Sketches
I sketched these self-portraits based on how I felt during 2005. I've been thinking about doing another set someday.
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05-01-00 10:23 pm #art#pastel#finished
Indifference
A soft pastel painting sparked by a friend's "same difference" comment about ice cream versus frozen yogurt.
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12-17-91 10:45 pm #art#painting#tempra#finished
The Plumbing
I painted this as a joke gift for my dad. He was always the one dealing with plumbing problems, so I figured he could use his own personal painting of pipes to hang on the wall.
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01-14-86 10:00 pm #art#painting#oil#finished ▦
Lighthouse in the Storm
My second attempt at painting in oil, a day after Snowy Creek. A lighthouse standing against crashing waves, with the beam cutting through the haze above.
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01-13-86 3:00 pm #art#painting#oil#finished
Snowy Creek
My first time working in oil. Snowy Creek, a winter woods with a stream running through the snow between bare trees.
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