'Caesar's Creek'

Quote of the day: "That best portion of a good man's life, his little nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love." William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

Original/Signed Painting

Watercolor on Paper

12" x 16"

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'Frosted Autumn Leaves'

Quote of the day: "And remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand." Emily Kimbrough, 1899-1989, American writer

Original/Signed Piece
Mixed Media on Deep Cradle Canvas (Sides Painted)
12" x 12"

'Gourd'

Quote of the day: "We cannot prevent the black birds of evil from flying over our heads, but we can prevent them from building their nests in our hair." Chinese Proverb

Original/Signed Piece

Mixed Media Collage

4" x 6" on matte board

'Another Glass of Wine'

Collage series continued...

Quote of the day: "Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love." Lao Tzu, c. 600 BC, Chinese philosopher

Original/Signed Piece

Mixed Media Collage on Paper

9" x 12"

'Garden Song'

Collage series continued...

Quote of the day: "One is nearer God's Heart in a garden than anywhere else on earth." Dorothy Frances Gurney, 1858-1932, English Poet

Original/Signed Piece

Mixed Media Collage

4" x 6"

'A Trip To Emerald Coast'

This piece was displayed at the Viva Gallery in Sherman Oaks, California for the Collage Artists of America's 2006 Open Exhibition. I won an honorable mention. This art piece currently hangs in my parent's home.

http://www.vivagallery.org/exhibits/CAA_2006JuriedOpen/index.html

Quote of the day: "The purpose of life is to matter - to count, to stand for something, to have it make some difference that we lived at all." Leo Rosten, 1908-1997, Polish-born American writer and humorist

Original/Signed Piece

Mixed Media Collage

12" x 14" (Framed)

'King Me'

This piece was displayed in National Collage Society's Art Dialogue Gallery in Buffalo, New York for the 2007 postcard exhibition.

Quote of the day: "There is a great man, who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great." G.K Chesterton, 1874-1936, English novelist and critic

Original/Signed Piece

Mixed Media Collage

4" x 6"

Bloomingdales Spree

More in my collage series. This piece hangs in my sisters home.

Quote of the day: "He who knows the light, and at the same time keeps the shade, will be the whole world's model." Lao Tsze (c. 604-531 BC)

Original/Signed Piece

Mixed Media Collage (Framed)

24" x 30"

'R&R'

Another in my collage series.

Quote of the day: "Wait, thou child of hope, for time shall teach thee all things." Martin Tupper (1810-1889)

Original/Signed Piece

Mixed Media Collage on Paper

9" x 12"

'Halloween Invitation'

Quote of the day: "The optimist is wrong as often as the pessimist. But he has a lot more fun." Anonymous

Original/Signed Piece

Collage on Paper

5" x 7"

Mackenzie, Hunter & Seth Mason's Halloween Creations

We were so bored while waiting for the electricity to come back on, so we went to the library and checked out a bunch of Halloween books which gave the kids inspiration for their attached drawings. They all wrote poems too. Hunter got the gold star for his poem which was short, but very creative.

Witches watch the time

Ghosts roast their toast

Pumpkins are punks

Mummies hum Hmmmmm

BOO!

Quote of the day: "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." Pablo Picasso

Picasso Inspired - Fruit Bowl

Quote of the day: "To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it - who can say this is not greatness? William Makepeace Thackeray, 1811-1863, English writer

Original/Signed Painting

Acrylic on Canvas - Sides Painted

12" x 16" x 1"

Domino Effect

This piece was displayed in the National Collage Society's 9th Annual Postcard Exhibit at Cuyahoga Valley's Art Center.

Quote of the day: "The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another 'I' is beginning." George Sand (Amandine Dupin), 1804-1876, French novelist

Original/Signed Piece

Mixed Media Collage

4" x 6" on 8" x 10" Matte Board

'Mrs. Jones'

This piece was displayed at the Butler Institute of Art's National Collage Society's 21st Annual Exhibit.

Quote of the day: "We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden." Johann Von Goethe

Original/Signed Piece

Mixed Media Collage

9" x 12"

'Wink'

This piece was displayed in the Beaux & Eros II Exhibition at the Peninsula Museum of Art in Belmont, California.

Quote of the day: "Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful as hope. Without hope man is only half alive." Charles Sawyer, 1887-1979, American lawyer

Original/Signed/Framed Piece

Mixed Media

8" x 10"

'Fly Away Dream'

There is an element to children's art that surpasses that of adults, due to its purity and inability to be manipulated into something untrue. This piece I created reminds me of a dream I once had when life was hard and I just wanted to fly away in a cloud of balloons to someplace pleasant.

Quote of the day: "Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination." Voltaire, 1694-1778, French philosopher, historian and writer

Original/Signed Piece (Mixed Media)

Acrylic on Canvas Panel

8" x 8"

'Mexican Sunflower'

This painting represents Autumn at the end of this beautiful summer.

Quote of the day: "If I had two loaves of bread, I would sell one and buy hyacinths. For they would feed my soul." Author unknown

Original/Signed Painting

Acrylic on Deep Cradle Canvas

5" x 5"

'Sunshine'

I don't want summer to come to an end. I will miss the beautiful flowers.

Quote of the day: "What a delight it is when, of morning, I get up and go out to find in full bloom a flower that yesterday was not there." Tachibana Akemi - 1812-1868 - Japanese poet

Original/Signed Painting

Acrylic on Deep Cradle Museum Quality Canvas

5" x 5"

'Gazania'

I love flowers. They brighten my day.

Quote of the day: "Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come." Chinese Proverb

Original/Signed Painting

Acrylic on Deep Cradle Canvas

5" x 5"

'Wild Flowers of Late Summer'

While vacationing I noticed some wild flowers here and there. I thought I would paint an abstract view of these pretty, tall, pink ones.

Original/Signed Painting

Acrylic on Deep Cradle Museum Quality Canvas

5" x 5"

Quote of the day: "O gift of God! a perfect day, whereon shall no man work but play, whereon it is enough for me not to be doing but to be." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807-1882 American poet and writer

'Wildflowers in Pitcher on Quilted Tablecloth'

We arrived home from vacation today. It was wonderful! The weather was great and we all had fun! I am posting my painting for the day along with a few photos I took of our wonderful getaway. Since August is the daily painters tribute to our beautiful earth month, I snapped some nature photos that I plan on painting later on.

Original/Signed Painting

Watercolor on Cold Pressed Paper

5" x 7"

Quote of the Day: "There is but one cause of human failure, and that is man's lack of faith in his true self." William James (1842-1910)

'Punk Girl'

We leave for vacation tomorrow so I have been running around all day and evening getting things done. I didn't have time to paint tonight, so I am posting one of my mixed media collages I am very fond of. This is one of a series of abstract 'people' creations.

Quote of the day: "The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind." William Blake (1757-1827)

Original/Signed Piece

Mixed media on paper

9" x 12"

'Blue Room'

This is my favorite of my 'Room' series so far. I really enjoy these creations. I'm thinking of painting every room in the house and framing them all together. We'll see.

Quote of the day: "Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning." Gloria Steinem

Original/Signed Painting

Acrylic on Canvas Panel

6" x 6"

'Pink Room'

Quote of the day: "Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation." Jack Nicklaus

Original/Signed Painting

Acrylic on Canvas Panel

6" x 6"

'Green Room'

Quote of the day - "Imagination is more important than knowledge." Albert Einstein 1879-1955

Original/Signed Painting

Acrylic on Canvas Panel

6" X 6"

'Bottles on Cobblestone'

Quote of the day: "There's no point dwelling on what might or could have been. You just have to go forward." Jack Nicholson - American Actor

Original/Signed Painting
Acrylic on Deep Cradle Canvas (Sides Painted)
5" x 7"

'Rasberry Chip Ice Cream with Blackberries and Mint'

Quote of the day: "There is not enough darkness in the world to extinguish the light of one small candle." - Spanish proverb

Original/Signed Painting

Acrylic on Deep Cradle Canvas

5" x 5"

'Goodbye to the Sea'

The end of vacation is always hard, especially when saying goodbye to the beautiful, blue ocean.

Quote of the day: "There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, there is a rapture on the lonely shore, there is society, where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar. I love not Man the less, but Nature more." Lord Byron, 1788-1824 - English poet

Original/Signed Painting

Acrylic on Deep Cradle Canvas

5" x 7"

'Steamed Asparagus'

Original/Signed Painting

Acrylic on deep cradle canvas

5" x 7"

'Peppers'

Original/Signed Painting

Pastel on Paper

9.5" X 12"

'Shattered'

I'm very excited to announce that my collage was accepted into the Ohio Collage Society's 2nd Annual exhibition at the Mansfield Art Center in Ohio beginning Sunday, September 21 through Saturday, October 25. This piece was constructed of various cut triangular pieces of paper.

Original Piece

Collage on Canvas (Framed)

29" x 53.5"

'Garden Urn'

Original/Signed Painting

Watercolor on Paper

5.5" x 8.5"

'Daffodils in Daylight'

Since August is 'respect our earth' month, I felt this piece appropriate.

Original/Signed Painting

Waterolor and Pastel on Paper

11" x 14"

'Breakfast Blend'

Original/Signed Painting
Acrylic on Canvas
5" x 7"

'Irises at Night'

Original/Signed Piece

Pastel on Paper

11" x 14"

'Elegant Waves'

This piece was displayed in the Art of Music Exhibition at the Mills Pond House Gallery in St. James New York. I used several different media including watercolor, acrylic, sheet music and various papers.

Original/Signed Piece

Mixed Media on Deep Cradle Canvas

12" x 24"

'Autumn Midst'

Original/Signed Painting

Mixed Media (Watercolor and Pastel)

11" x 14"

'Fireflowers'

These potted flowers were painted in pastel.

Original/Signed Painting
Pastel on Paper
11" x 14"