7″x5″ pastel on sanded paper  

  
10″x8″ pastel on sanded paper
“The days you work are the best days.”

-Georgia O’Keeffe

  
10″x8″ oil, song, and cottonwood blossom on panel

I painted this plein air.  Just inside the window where I was seated, was the Ghost Ranch choral performing a wonderful concert, masterfully arranged by David Poole.  My painting was filled with beautiful music and interesting history about the land.

  
7″x5″ pastel on sanded paper.  Plein air, Ghost Ranch, chimney rock

“SPLENDOR of ended day, floating and filling me! 

Hour prophetic–hour resuming the past! 

Inflating my throat–you, divine average! 

You, Earth and Life, till the last ray gleams, I sing. ”

-Walt Witman

SPLENDOR of ended day, floating and filling me! Hour prophetic–hour resuming the past! 

Inflating my throat–you, divine average! 

You, Earth and Life, till the last ray gleams, I sing. 

-Walt Witman

 
7″x5″ pastel on sanded paper

 “The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud…be a blessing to somebody.”

-Maya Angelou

 
10″x8″ pastel on sanded paper

“All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.”
J. R. R. Tolkien

 7″x5″ pastel on sanded paper

 “Sunset is still my favorite color, and rainbow is second.”

-Mattie Stepanek

 
7″x5″ pastel on sanded paper

“I’m having a magenta day. Not just red, but magenta!”

-Stephen King, Needful Things

  
“The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.”

-Saadi