Veterans' Day

Here is a relatively new painting, 12 x 12 acrylic on canvas. It started out as this drawing in white ink on black gesso:

then became this painting:

across green lake this morning

Today's 6 x 8 plein air oil sketch! The morning was lovely!

the factory behind freighthouse square

Here's this week's 6 x 8 oil sketch!

teresa in the studio

10-year-old portrait of my friend-the-longest, oil, 18 x 12

lake forest park

5 x 7 oil sketch: looking south across Bothell Way from the Commons at Third Place Books

fencepost study

yesterday's color study sketch, oil on hardboard, 8 x 8

under the bridge

5 x 7 oil sketch from last week in Tacoma

mossy roof

oil sketch from the deck of a boat on the Point Ruston waterway (Dock Street, Tacoma) last week! 12 x 16

rainbow street (detail)

oil on canvas, 48 x 46

industrial tower

today's 8 x 6 plein air oil sketch of a view from under a dramatic Tacoma bridge. This tower was tiny on the horizon but glowing in the sun!

higher and lighter

pastel in wet on paper. About 18 x 13 (has been on loan for awhile, I'd have to look up the measurements).

ton plaisir

pastel in wet on paper. Collection of Terry and John Walsh.

haunting heaven

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

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.

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.

like flame

pastel on paper, 30 x 40.

april

pastel on paper, 30 x 40

precipitation

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

distant fire

pastel on paper, 30 x 40.