bracken reflection
ALT: watercolor based on a photo of ferns reflected in still lake water. the painting is very loose and sketchy, and I don’t think the actual reflections came off clearly, so I put in an extra dragonfly to make up for it.
blue bird of harpiness
ALT: crayon and ink. a purple winged critter with some resemblance to a pterodactyl possibly threatens a couple of small golden quadrupeds, one of which is hiding behind some green plant thing. gold spots dot the field, and also dot the sky.
night beats
ALT: water soluble crayon, abstract. Crescent moon shape on a blue ground. superimposed are a series of black curved lines descending, like ribs or claws, and a series of red sticks not quite matching up to the pointed ends of the curves. I spent the evening at a concert by EMEFE, a NYC band featuring a boss horn section and many playfully interlaced rhythms.
remember yesterday’s art? well here it is again with a lot more stuff on it.
July ATCs, finished.
ALT: mixed media. a grid of 9 rectangles. on a ground of soft curves of color there are masses of calligraphic black ink imaginary writing, and on top of that, the alphabet is painted in bold acrylic colors, outlined in black ink.
July ATCs – wip
I have plans for more layering on this ground before the cards get cut up.
ALT: a grid of 9 rectangles 2.5″ x 3.5″ with some leftover space. watercolor, abstract. loosely colored circles and curves, sprinkled with some numbers and letters. all shapes traced around templates and french curves. I’m just playing.
June ATCs.
I’m a month behind on my Artist Trading Cards, so here is my first of two efforts to catch back up.
Stretching out vacation in my mind.
ALT: watercolor page, with a grid of 9 rectangles drawn in pencil, and 3 rows of lake, shore, and distant mountains painted in. I’ll be cutting this into 9 cards to send out to friends in my ATC group; hopefully each rectangle will have something at least pleasantly evocative in it.
atop rattlesnake
I think I must paint this tree every year, or at least take a photo. I like the way watercolors do what they want, and I can’t spend a lot of time worrying about it. (surely more serious artists have a lot more control of the medium, but I enjoy its spontaneity)
ALT: watercolor depicting a tree on a rocky ground, with a mountain range in the background (old New England mountains, not the jagged forbidding kind) if you look closely there’s a person standing by the tree, almost transparent.
Annual picture of Red Hill as seen from my cabin’s dock.
I’m back from vacation. Didn’t do much art, but here are three little postcard-sized watercolors that I managed to produce. It was really lovely, and we’ll see how well I can move back into my regular routines!
pretty good sailing weather this week (I prefer to kayak)
little lake islands as seen from a kayak
looking for lake
ALT: water soluble graphite and crayon, abstract landscape. mostly horizontal drifting lines across the page; blue below, as if rippled water, and orange above as if sunset in a periwinkle sky, with purple hills between.
collage #7 for 2026.
I expect this will be the last one for this round; i have tidied up my work bench and put away all the little scraps of pictures.
These collages assemble themselves from scraps and leftovers from the Feb (or March) collage party. lots of art magazines and National Geographicses. some of the bits here have been kicking around for years, some are scraps from collages made by other artists in my studio this year. I choose and place by visual intuition, no grand idea, yet often a mood emerges.
ALT: magazine picture collage. the background is the interior of an old and rubble-filled church (Turkish, if I remember correctly). there’s a man walking through it. he is surrounded by bits from a painting found in an art magazine, that have a flooded house and two people reaching upward, in this context, from windows of the church. There are also some bits from a Bosch painting, and a couple of odd creatures from National Geographics, including a man having a stare-down with an emperor penguin across the rubble.
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