haunting heaven

pastel in wet on paper, 30 x 40. My beloved old Wallingford neighborhood...

pink rat

jazz acrylic on paper, 24 x 36

thanksgiving day

Here is a little oil sketch from last fall, 6 x 8 on canvas/hardboard panel. I painted it in the parking lot of the hospital where I had spent so much time previously with my dad, and even more previously with my mom. Since it was a holiday parking was free.

treescape

oil on linen, 22 x 28.

zebra coat

This is a fractured image painting referencing one of my more elaborate fiber pieces. Heavy-weave patterned silk was first dyed in the shibori tradition, and then fashioned into the Zebra Coat. For this image I laid it out somewhat flat and placed objects of personal meaning to me across it; then crossed this pattern with garden swaths in the painted image. Watercolor, 36 x 54.

someone's heaven

The view from the dock accessing my studio in 1998; watercolor and pastel; commissioned, in private collection.

ballard sunday market

plein air oil sketch on gessoed masonite with acrylic underpainting, 9 x 12; August 2008.

glowing impalas

acrylic on paper, jazz animals series, 24 x 36. Collection of Pamela McDonald.

like flame

pastel on paper, 30 x 40.

my old studio

watercolor, 9" x 12".

peach feast

jazz acrylic on paper, 24 x 36

april

pastel on paper, 30 x 40

rooftops

watercolor on paper, private collection.

precipitation

The view from my studio dock door, plein air oil on canvas, 20 x 30

ruby slippers

Here's a relatively new jazz piece, acrylic on paper, 44.5 x 59.

from the dock

An older watercolor on paper, the view out my (then) North Lake Union studio front glass doors. About 9" x 9".

distant fire

pastel on paper, 30 x 40.

water vapors

This is the reservoir on Roosevelt! oil on canvas, 20 x 30. Collection of my dear friend Teresa Lawson.

mon plaisir

Pastel in wet on paper, 36 x 40. Collection of Patricia Emmons and Bill Curtis.

painted silk

This watercolor on paper, 18 x 26, references a shawl woven from torn silk I had previously dye-painted, some with images, some just with color. The crystal is my mother's; the ruby glass and china are mine. These objects of personal value surround the most perfect of all gifts -- sweet fruits.

yellow trees

Here is an older landscape from the east side, pastel on paper, 30 x 40.

red beads

Today's daily, 6 x 6, oil on panel.

blue bottle

Here is yesterday's little painting, 4 x 6, oil on panel. Still wet and full of sparkles from the flash, will have to reshoot it later!

summons

And now for something completely different: an older commissioned jazz piece, acrylic on paper, about 44" x 58".

sailboat

Watercolor, 22 x 15. Found this scene at the Center for Wooden Boats. Private collection.

who is with me in the woods?

Another pastel, this one a small sketch, painted in wet on paper.

intimate distance

This is the view from my old studio whose access was on a dock on north lake union, pastel on paper, 30 x 40. How lucky was I to be there?!

vivid

From jazz still life series, 24 x 24, acrylic on paper. Private collection.

detente

1997 watercolor on paper, 18 x 26. Collection of Martha Dawson.

san diego 1978

oil on canvas, 30 x 24; painted in 1996.

mother's crystal

Prismacolor, 8 x 10, 1995.