People's Choice Award Winner at Georgetown Library WWG show!

 

Turtle Rock is the winner of the People's Choice Award at the Georgetown Library Waterloo Watercolor Group show! This small and intimate painting is on Arches 140 paper and was based on a photograph that I took this spring at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. 
 This turtle lounges on a rock in the entry pond area and seems to enjoy seeing all the wildflower lovers come and go. I originally did a pastel of this same photo which is posted on April 13, 2013. 

Paintings at new ACC Elgin Campus!

 

This selection of my watercolors are hanging at the new Elgin ACC Campus on Hwy 290 in Elgin, Texas!
It is a beautiful campus and facility! ACC has asked Elgin artists to hang their work in the public areas of the new campus. Go by and check them out! Also my Elgin artist friend, Elizabeth Sullivan has her fabulous watercolors hanging there as well.

Variety of little watercolors

 

Here is a little collection of watercolors that I have worked on in the past year, just haven't posted them. Two different crows, a set of pigs, a lively pen & ink & watercolor rooster, and sunflowers.

Dusk in Red River

 

This watercolor on Arches 140 paper captures the beautiful dusk of late afternoon in Red River, NM. We visited this past February and this was the scene behind our condo. We looked out over Red River and the mountain loomed up behind it. The gorgeous dusky light and light snow gave the scene a purple haze.

Landscape - Alaska Inspired!

 

Watercolor on Arches 140 paper. After viewing photographs that Kathy Summers took on her trip to Alaska, I was inspired to paint this dramatic landscape. The dusky, rich colors and high drama that Kathy captured in her photos are reflected in this painting.

Unfinished Owl

 

Watercolor on Arches 140 paper. Work in progress.This is from a photograph that I took at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center this spring. This nesting owl is raising a set of  owlets on this ledge for the second year in a row! Rough hill country stone ledge and a cactus  growing right there on the ledge which offers some cover for the owl. 

Unfinished Capitol Skyline

 

Watercolor on Arches 140 paper. This is still a work in progress of an interesting sky and the capitol building in Austin - and I will add other downtown silhouettes most probably.