Permission for myself to play...

 Make art for fun
make it for yourself
with no preconception
with no expectation
 just have fun!     L. Roark
                                                                    

Cactus bloom

 
Cactus bloom     Watercolor pencil

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Happy Sunday morning

 
Abstract, mixed media on paper.   "Sunday Morning"

Abstract, mixed media on paper.  "Forward,, Backward" diptych

Mixed Media on paper

Mixed Media on paper "LOVE" diptych

Abstraction

 
Abstract on paper

Beautiful May Morning

 
A beautiful May Morning on the horizon

Floral sketches

2 18x24 charcoal floral sketches

A pear

A quick simple pear sketch demo

3 Pears

3 Pears

Apples by the window

Apples by the window

Purple waves

“Purple Waves” Mixed Media on paper

The Visit

 
"The Visit"  Mixed media on paper.

Full bloom to welcome the new year...

  

Photo of Amaryllis in full bloom at our front walkway

 

Pen & Ink drawings on paper.

 

Street Dancer

Colored Pencil on vellum paper

Rainbow at sunrise

 
Rainbow at sunrise.  Photography.

Florida sunset

 

Sunset on a stormy day in Florida

 

Art Quote: Edgar Degas

"There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic."   Edgar Degas

I came across this quote by Degas and remembering my painting "A day on the beach"... thinking back when I was working on that painting, it was not going well, I was at a loss, and in frustration I quickly slapped some paints on the canvas trying to 'rescue' the painting. I was about to give up trying... I took a few steps back and then I saw it... there was nothing else I wanted to add to it... done!  A sense of relief and delight!        "success from panic"...?

Our first Iris bloom of 2022 
Spring is just around the corner!

Regarding a blank canvas

"I don't go into the studio with the idea of 'saying' something.  What I do is face the blank canvas and put a few arbitrary marks on it that start me on some sort of dialogue."

Richard Diebenkorn

 

 
Blooms from our garden this year

Water's Edge

Acrylic on canvas

Deep End

Acrylic on canvas

"Three Delights" Linocut

It was fun and relaxing working on this old block again yesterday, just a little further to go before it is finished.  I am looking forward to more linoleum cut and continue doing more printmaking.

Beautiful music

 "Meditation Quena I am"   "The Last of the Mohigans" 

and more music by   Alexandro Querevalu

A day on the beach

Acrylic on canvas
 

"Intermittent"

 

"The Race II"

"The Race"