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.

Preliminary sketch and underpainting

Working on an oil portrait of Tap Dance and Peanut which is 9"x12" on canvas. This is only a rough start, and the painting will go through many changes before it is finished. It will take months to completely dry. There is a lot ot tweaking to be done (ears, eyes, etc.), as well as top color overlay and outline adjustments.