Today's "artwork"

No candy for us - just a Halloween centerpiece tonight.

These are the kinds of paintings I do when I am at the Gallery and business is slow. They are watercolors on cotton paper, about six inches square. I left the best one there - maybe it will sell...and help pay for parking.

Play date ponies

This painting is sold.

Experimenting with different paper and brushes means many surprises.

Morning turn out

On a crisp October day...

A quick morning sketch before heading over to the barn to watch a lesson and pat a horse.

October colors

Today a friend came over to paint with me. We both experimented with greens in particular.

Another fall motif

Radishes painted in watercolor and sumi onto Chinese silk. 6"x8".

Sumi on rice paper

Crows are all around these days - looking for trash to eat. They keep the street clean...

Chinese Lantern plant painting

It is hard to paint for a show, but I am making an effort today to do a painting for the Puget Sound Sumi Artists group which will have a show in November in a library gallery. They have rejected my work in the past as being "too western", but I will try anyway to participate. It is kind of tricky changing from painting in oils on canvas to painting in sumi and watercolor on rice paper. The challenge teaches me to understand the many differences in these mediums.
Image size is 17"x12" (unframed).

Another autumn motif

Two versions of the honesty plant, also known as the money or dollar plant. 5"x7" watercolor.

Cool nights ripen the grapes on the arbor

watercolor on rag paper.
This painting was sold at the Seattle Beaujolais Auction fundraiser.

Lanterns in watercolor

The finished oil painting of Tapdance & Peanut

This painting is sold.