Yerba Mansa

This is a botanical study of a plant that grows here in Santa Fe. I found it at the Santa Fe Botanical Garden growing wild in the shade of some trees.

Falling to Earth

This is attempt no. 2 in which I collaged a stamp print I had made previously entitled "Falling to Earth" to the encaustic, which reminds me of how I felt last night when I participated in my first ever bachelorette party. The bachelorette party is a whole culture unto itself.

Orange You Glad I Like Nudes?

I crack myself up! This little nude took all of two minutes to paint. Usually I paint the model with just water on my brush. It's a little hard to see what I'm doing, but the idea is to get the silhouette. Then, I drop in color where the shadows are. Sometimes they look really great, like this one!

Frottage and Nude Together

Frottage is a rubbing over something with texture to make a print. In this case, the something was a paper lace doily that I put under a piece of watercolor paper and rubbed with a gold metallic wax crayon. Then I painted the blue nude.

Triangular Composition

This is a quick oil study that I did in preparation for abstracting it further.  I liked the muted colors and decided that it didn't need to be more abstract.

Crying

Today I put my youngest on the plane to spend a semester in Rome.  She said that I wouldn't cry when she left.  Here is an illustration of what I really mean about how much I will miss La Madeleine for the next four months. 

Oh the joy of pinons!

This is a joyful pinon outside my window in Santa Fe.  I guess I was the joyful one and it was basking in my attention.

Wish I was in Florida

Straight from the high desert to the swamps of Florida, where I wish I was this weekend.  I just painted this flamingo from a photograph.