Rain, Fire, Dog, Owl

This 10"x 14" painting has some of my familiar elements. The rain is represented by ink that has dripped and flowed. There is a fire in the background and an owl picking up a dog. Is the owl trying to save the dog or is he going to take the dog and eat it? Do you care? That's the dramatic tension.

Bird Watchers (1 and 2)

Both of these paintings (12"x36", ink and watercolor on paper) continue with my semi-obsession with people on cell phones. In both these painting a woman is proudly displaying a cell phone picture she took of a bird in the the tree. Something that I have tried to do in these paintings and on other occasions, is paint the cell phone signal....in case you are wondering what those curved blue lines are.

Watering His Iris

This small painting(5"x8") , Watering His Iris, is one of many paintings I've been working on where someone is on their cell phone. I'm sure that some day in the not too distant future I will have a show where every painting has a cellular phone in it.

Two Young Owls

Here is a small painting (6"x9") built around the image of two owls in a hollow part of a tree. The tree is painted with loose, broad brush-strokes. Everything else in the painting is more finely executed. The dog seems to sense there is something in the tree. Is this cute scene about to erupt into a bloodbath as the domestic animal tries to attack the young owls? Or will they all get along and go off together to the factory (that's what's in the background) to tour the assembly line from a glassed in observation deck?

Rabbit in the Snow

For this painting, I was trying to adapt the traditional Chinese ink painting technique of painting a snowy scene. Snow is the absence of ink or color in traditional Chinese landscape painting. It was fun to suggest a landscape with just a dozen or so quick brushstrokes.

Rabbit in the

Paintings for the Lewis & Clark Multicultural Symposium

Urban Garden (above) is one of the paintings that will be featured at the Lewis and Clark college Art Exhibit Nov. 11-13. The art Exhibit is part of the Ray Warren Multicultural Symposium. If you look closely at the garden, there is a rabbit, two fighting dogs, a goose, and some loving pidgeons mixed in with the humans and vegetation.