Reeds Water Land Sky
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This is a work with quiet comfortable forms and colors. However,
there is a quiet but sizzling contrast between the dull yellow and the
violet sides of the land. And the sky is boiling.
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Evening Fantasy
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Here I show romantic richness in the rather bright but dark
colors of a moon lit night.
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Imagined Impression
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This is a calm plane with subtle harmonies of pattern and color.
Grays create a stability from which other colors and values emerge.
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Colorful Pond
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I did an oil painting from a pond at Quail Gardens. This
is a second approach to the same subject done from memory. It's
very active in pattern and color. There are many flickering lights and
brush strokes. It walks a line between confusion and order, but I think
I maintained a high energy order.
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Stone Arch
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This is from memory of many natural stone arches I've seen
in the Southwest. I was able to keep fresh stokes, and well ordered
form. I am particularly excited by the nerve and strength of putting
the yellow line down the inside of the arch.
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Playful Gorge
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Here is a relatively simple painting. Yet, its simplicity makes
it strong and direct. It is particularly effective in the large
giclee, printed version.
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Filtered Light
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This painting is drawn from my memory of the diffuse light that filters into
a narrow canyon. It is an abstract impression concerned mostly with
atmosphere and color patterns.
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Sparkling Contrast
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The sparkling contrast between a tree caught in sunlight and a dark red mesa
was in my mind, as I developed the rich color of this image.
Then I dealt more fancifully with the patterns of the foreground.
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Lightning Storm
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Rich dim light and zigzag lines, it looks like a storm. I am fascinated
by the energy of this image, these moving strokes and colors. I didn't
cover-up the actions of my hand.
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California Coastline
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Those long banks of clouds hang over the California Coast. I used my
memory of them to set up a complementary color scheme for this moody image.
The city forms below became abstractions allowing me to play with patterns
and colors.
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Storybook Land
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A little storybook land came from my memory of painting on site at the San
Diego Wild Animal Park. I enjoyed the patterns of cuts through the
land from erosion or just from my imagination.
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Late Light
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At dusk or dawn the angled light colors and shapes the land and sky. These
forms setup my memory of this kind of landscape. I don't know if it's
on Earth or somewhere else.
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Transitions
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This is a dreamy painting, from memory, which suggests transitions from the
more solid forms of the foreground through sands, waters and billowy pinks
to the pink and blue ethers at the top. I had fun playing with subtleties
of natural rhythms and exposed calligraphy.
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River Scene
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River scenes, light, direct brushwork and rocks were in my mind, but also
cross patterns and value transitions. It's a wonder it became so unified
and clearly stated.
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Platform In the Desert
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I remembered a strange platform in a watershed just above Sedona. But
it's the rhythms of the desert patches and plants in a simple direct painting
that interested me most.
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Light Color Line
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Experimenting with some new computer painting tools led to this conjunction
of glowing light, color, and line. Though the tools were new the sky,
water, land and building forms are eternal.
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Strong Color Tight Composition
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This painting shows strong, active color and gesture with tight knitting
of its forms and composition.
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Desert Scribbles
Patches
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Here I've restated the desert landscape in terms of scribbles and patches
of color. I'm playing with the reality I see outside and the
reality I make with my mind, hands and paint.
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Maybe from the Seashore
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This reminds me of sand dunes and other patterns along a seashore, but its
reality is centered more in its own abstraction than exact forms taken from
nature.
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Blossoming
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I was thinking of space growing outward from the center of a ring in a landscape
setting. It turned out like a blossom.
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Dark Sky Bright Land
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As the sun gets low in the sky the land opposite it is illuminated. Then
I became involved in abstractions of patterns and colors in the land.
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Golden Light
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This is another painting inspired by the golden light of the sun, simple
direct colors and thick lines of purple.
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Delicate Plane
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A simple flat plane of land, playing with the patterns of growing things
and atmosphere.
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Rocky Hills
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This painting is from thoughts of hills in red rock country, subtle changes
in mounds, rocks, color and brushwork.
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