8×10 oil on panel, plein air
“To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.” -Aldo Leopold
My husband spends his time in town pouring over maps looking for these blank spaces. Our family has many trail miles, fresh rasberry stained clothes, blisters, paintings, and fantastic memories to show for all his hard work.
8×10 oil on panel
Beautiful sunrise, Abiquiu Lake
8×10 oil on panel plein air
“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your element in each moment.” — Henry David Thoreau
16×20 oil on panel
16×16 oil on panel
“In someone’s darkest hour your simple act of kindness may imitate the sunrise, and to sad eyes you become their only source of light.”–Richelle E. Goodrich
16″x 20″ oil on panel
“I have spent weeks in the desert, forgetting to look at the moon, he says, as a married man may spend days never looking into the face of his wife. These are not sins of omission but signs of pre-occuopation.”
–Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
7″x5″ pastel on sanded paper
“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”
-Buddha
7″x5″ pastel on sanded paper
“Night and day the river flows. If time is the mind of space, the River is the soul of the desert. Brave boatmen come, they go, they die, the voyage flows on forever. We are all canyoneers. We are all passengers on this little mossy ship, this delicate dory sailing round the sun that humans call the earth. Joy, shipmates, joy.” — (Edward Abbey, The Hidden Canyon — A River Journey)
7″x5″ pastel on paper
“…you are my rainbow to keep. My eyes will always be watching you; never will I lose sight of you.”
–Vesna Bailey
I snapped this shot of a friend and her daughter, as they lounged on a blanket passing the hours of a very long race our husbands were running. It is a lousy photo, but I love the energy between their faces, so I did a little colorful study of that precious mother-daughter moment.
10″x8″ pastel on sanded paper
Pamona is a master watercolor artist, teacher, and friend. We all agree watercolors are the toughest medium, so I leave that heavy lifting to her. I have captured her here in pastel, from a photo taken by Jodi Wert.
