Sunflowers

I always seem to gravitate toward the bright colors and this time it's sunflowers. This painting is 18"x24"x1 1/2" gallery wrap, acrylic on canvas.

Three Poppies

This little painting is done in oils and is on a 1 1/2 inch gallery wrap canvas.

Fish

I really really enjoy just scumbling in colors onto a canvas and just looking to see what it will become. This one started off all muted camo colors at first. I am drawn more to bright colors, if you hadn't noticed already, so I added a few brights! I swear to all that is holy, I did not try to make another fish! It just happened again! Well, what could I do but just go with it? I also skimmed in some iridescent copper and some blues and greens to set the fish and seaweed back some into the painting.

Coral Reef in Tandem

This painting is rather large at 30"x30"x1 1/2" gallery wrap. I started this one just by scumbling in some primary colors onto the canvas. I turned the canvas on it's various sides to see what would appear. My friend Michele Lee and I looked and waited to see what God wanted this painting to become. Well, I soon lost my light at the studio to paint by but not before we saw these wonderful little fish swimming out and through the coral reefs. The other sides revealed other options as well but the coral reef and all it's beautiful colors just called to me. I brought it to my home studio and there I began to pull out the basic elements that you now see. Coral Reef in Tandem was born!

Emerging Cockatoo

I was at the downtown studio the other day and just began scumbling in some color on a canvas. I stood back and saw this bird looking back at me! Okay, it's a sulfur crested cockatoo at that! As with the Emerging Koala, I just pulled the image that I saw, out. Just a few strokes of the brush. I brought it home and finished it off by painting in a branch, then I added some heavy gel medium and paint, lightly skimmed over the surface. If you were to tilt the canvas toward you, you would see painted on the 1 1/2" wrap end, the sulfur crest of the bird.

Starfish

spent some time with a friend painting one day, she on an abstract and me on this starfish. I suppose I was feeling a little "Beachey".
This starfish has just come ashore and has the water still lapping gently at some of it"s feet/arms/hmmm, I guess you know what I mean! The remarkable color of this particular specimen is true. God really did make this one green.

Sunlit Poppies II- SOLD