I am lichen this one

lichen on a rock today. so decorative, almost like a pattern on fabric.

love puddles love taking photos love playing in photo software love a monday off love Pandora radio love this photo I took today.

fun with my photos and photoshop elements and Perfect photo Suite 6. Addictive but legal.

Nice abstract look at reflections in our Lake California, down by the boat launch/clubhouse area.

sun in a puddle

weather in a puddle, sun and clouds with concrete. trying to see more abstractly and create an interesting photo. added warming filter in photoshop and cropped to 8x5", an atypical proportion.

Collage Landscape Postcards from Lake California

Postcards from Lake California, small treats made from art, scrap and recycled paper. Each about 4"x6" with torn and deckle edges, glued to 140# watercolor paper. Available in my Etsy Shop, $15
each. Handmade, unique, fun!

"Silvery Morning" acrylic landscape painting

Freestyle acrylic landscape from a photo taken in my front yard. The trees are painted with an iridescent silver paint that shimmers in the light. 10"x20" acrylic on stretched, wrapped sides, linen canvas.

Ready to hang sans frame. 185.00 usd. free shipping USA!

"Dark Days" acrylic abstract landscape

The sky has been choked with smoke all week; I tried to capture the feeling with this painting.

Acrylic on sabretooth multimedia paper, 22"x15".

"Smoke Coming Closer" acrylic landscape

My interpretation of the current California sky. Acrylic paint on sabertooth multimedia paper (blue), 1/2 sheet 22"x15" approx. A large piece for me.

21 Days Later Acrylic Painting on Paper

Our fires have been burning for 3 weeks now, the sky is strange, the landscape looks pale and feverish. I am finding acrylic to be expressive and spontaneous, and quickly painted this one tonite, looking out the back door. About 8x12" on bristol drawing paper.

Incidentally, I used a limited palette of hansa yellow med, quin red, bone black and titanium white. yellow+black=green!

yard sketch oil painting

what a treat to do a quick sketch of the backyard after work now that the sun stays up later. :)

oil paint on primed linen taped to a board. about 8x12".

Brushy Morning

An abstract landscape, oil on gallery wrapped stretched linen 10"x20". An imaginative look at our local California landscape.

Summer Day

one from a few months ago, using the Christiansen limited palette. A view of the Lake California campground. Oil on raymar panel, 10x12"

old manzanita

An intriguing clump of manzanita with just one branch living, wrapped around a couple of oaks.

9x12 oil on masonite

$125.00

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landscape approach 9

the joy of experimentation is the basis of this study in color and texture. i am so tired of "gottas" and "cant's" in my regular life, when i paint i want to paint freely.

oil on masonite, 9x12"

Lake California abstract landscape oil painting

12" square format, oil on gessoed panel. I painted this piece as the lake might have looked before all the houses were built.

This painting has been SOLD!