Fleck Pink

mixed media on canvas, 8" x 8"

Matte Orange

mixed media on canvas, 8" x 8"

Matte Brown

mixed media on canvas, 8" x 8"

Fiber Pink

For this painting I added acrylic paint to Golden Fiber Paste. It was not an easy medium to use. At least now I know what to expect when I used it.


mixed media on canvas, 8" x 8"

Mica Orange

mixed media on canvas, 8" x 8"

Garnet Brown

When I was browsing Golden gels at a local art store, I came across some that had garnet in them. I wasn’t sure how they’d look when they dried. So, I asked a saleswoman. She told me the garnet gels would look like “bloody buggers.” Well, since I was teaching art to teenagers at the time, I figured purchasing the garnet gels would be a big hit with them. And sure enough, they gave me evils grins once they saw my sample painting.


mixed media on canvas, 8" x 8"

Pumice Pink

Growing up as an artist, I always had my hands in paint. My family had a pumice stone for us to use to help clean our hands. It was great for pealing acrylic off my hands. Anyway, I was very familiar with the feel of pumice when I saw noticed that Golden had it in a gel. Naturally I had to purchase all three varieties.


mixed media on canvas, 8" x 8"

Bead Orange

This gel medium has little clear glass beads in it. When I started adding acrylic to it, I decided to go with a “Jurassic Park”-like effect.


mixed media on canvas, 8" x 8"

Oops/Cut

mixed media on paper, 11 1/2" x 15"

Inside/Outside

mixed media on paper, 11 1/2" x 15"

Morning/Evening

mixed media on paper, 11 1/2" x 15"

Dirt/Fog

mixed media on paper, 11 1/2" x 15"

Blue Eyebrows

watercolor on paper, 11" x 15"

Rose Eyebrows

watercolor on paper, 11" x 15"

Pink Eyebrows

watercolor on paper, 11" x 15"

Gold Eyebrows

watercolor on paper, 11" x 15"

Forgotten Art

When I was teaching art I often worked on art projects to show students what I was doing. Many of these “in progress” pieces came home, but with Hurricane Katrina and the flood, I forgotten about them. Recently I’ve been sorting through boxes and papers. Slowly I’m finding my incomplete works. Many of these are near completion or just have me stuck. Yes, I sometimes have to come back to piece to complete it.

Eyebrows Series

For the last several years I have looked at works by Takashi Murakami and wondered what I might do in that spirit. I was trying to think of image. Well, I decided to work with an eyebrow motif in symbolic form. Some years ago I was at a Supercuts and the hair stylist was all set to do trim my eyebrows. I got a little ticked that he was just about to cut them.

I’m not sure what I’ll do to finish them. Maybe they are finished. Anyway, I’ve been on the fence with these for three years now. Hopefully something will move me. They are now in a place where I am forced to see them.


acrylic on canvas, 4 canvses, 8" x 8"

Strata Series

Just before I turned forty, I went to Denver, Colorado for an art educators’ national convention. On one of the days there, I went on a city tour in the morning and then a mountain tour in the evening. It was on the mountain tour I had a chance to see where giant red rocks pushed through the ground. I also saw petrified dinosaur bones embedded in another area. Also, there was an area that used to be the sea floor - including fossils of sea creatures. When I came back from the trip, I became interested in a strata motif.


watercolor on paper, 8 pieces, 7 1/2" x 11"

Here I was turning forty. It seemed like a good symbolic way of representing the milestone. Anyway I did strata painting for our Contemporary Art Center. It was having a fundraiser in which each artist was given a postcard size piece of paper and asked to make it into an art postcard. I wish I had taken a picture of it. Anyway, that was the first one I made.

I did these larger strata paintings after that and got stuck. One of my students said they looked like wallpaper. That’s what put me into a rut. How do I get them away from them just being a dull repeating pattern. Anyway it’s been a good three years since I began these. I just have to finish them. Then the nest trick will be framing them.