10″x8″ pastel on sanded paper
Kauai
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” -Rabindranath Tagore
Snorkeler’s Cove
10″x8″ pastel on sanded paper
Play this sound track: “Look mom, an eel!, a school of so many fish” Now roll the surf in the background. It was a beautiful morning.
Plein air – Kauai
Sunshine Flower
I painted this as an 8″x10″, but I like it better square. Pastel on sanded paper
“Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.” -Hans Christian Andersen
✔️sunshine
✔️ freedom
✔️ a little flower
Ironwood Afternoon
10″x8″ pastel on sanded paper
Poipu Beach, Kauai, Hawaii – plein air
As my family fought the waves, I enjoyed the shade of this beautiful Ironwood tree.
Red Laughter
10″x8″ pastel on sanded paper
“Earth Laughs in Flowers” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Salt Pond
10″x8″ pastel on sanded paper. Plein air
Salt Pond Beach – Kauai, Hawaii
Launch on Every Wave
14″x11″ pastel on sanded paper
“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.” -Henry David Thoreau
Sunshine Valley
10″x8″ pastel on sanded paper
I have left the intimidating mountains of Colorado, and am delighting in the more familiar mountains of NM, the light is incomparable.
New Mexican Mud
“To a farmer dirt is not a waste, it is wealth.” – Amit Kalantri
To me, these mud buildings are one of the most beautiful things in the world.
Occasion for Hope
10″x8″ pastel on sanded paper”The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.” -John Buchan
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