Artwork

Delightlfull Different. Curiously Compeling.

Mixed Media

Photo of ladybug with a plastic discard that looks like a bug

“Ladybug” - 4x6 in., mixed media, ©2018 All Rights Reserved - An orange squashed plastic “bug”was found in a parking lot and was included with the framed ladybug. This work was part of a series of 4x6 inch artwork shown at the Pajaro Valley Arts Council Exhibition.

“Fly with Many Eyes” - 4x6 in., mixed media, ©2018 All Rights Reserved - A small photo of a fly on a lilac flower set against crimped brown paper. At the top and bottom are a row of eyes symbolic of the vision a fly has.

Artwork with a gray background and a broken glass with red paint.

Baskets

Colorful hand wovern mini-basket with black flat beads

Books

Ceramics

The slab method was used when creating these various animals.

Sink Prints

Sinks, dirty with left over tempera paint, were the basis of Sink Prints. Large sheets of paper were placed on top and a “print” would be made. After it dried, various images “appeared” which were then enhanced with pastels.

Tempera paint and pastel drawing of a lion's head

“Docile King”

Tempera paint and pastel drawing of a horse's head

“Challenge”

“Unicorn”

Gouache and Watercolor

“Renaissance Lady in Blue” gouache, jewels, fur - ©1972 All Rights Reserved - Artwork was painted using gouache and included gemstones and fur. It depicted the dress of the upper class during the early Renaissance.

“Renaissance Lady in Pink” gouache, jewels, fur - ©1972 All Rights Reserved - Artwork was painted using gouache and included gemstones and fur. It depicted the dress of the upper class during the early Renaissance.

“Watercolor Doll” is a painting of a doll, with a Christmas Snowflake headdress, that was sitting on a child's rocking chair.

Drawings

“Escaping Virtual Reality”

A pencil drawing of a moth found in New Mexico. The bottom half of the drawing is “pixelated” depicting of how “virtual reality” and “reality” are blending into our perceived daily “reality”. The question now is: “Is what we see on the internet, is it real or created by algorithms?”

Below is a close-up of the above artwork, showing the detail of the drawing techniques.

Painting

“The Cottage”

16 x 20 inches, Oil Paint - ©2004 All Rights Reserved -An oil painting of Marie Antoinette's cottage located at Versailles, France. She would pretend to be a peasant girl and would live in this cottage and work in the garden.

Plein Air

Collage

“Me”

Assemblage

“My New Home Environment”

Time and Tide Bell #200Fish Rock Cook Fish

A Rock Cook fish looks in disbelief oat its polluted environment.

The fish looks in disbelief at the two plastic bottles and small metal toy truck and one plastic cap that have been tossed haphazardly, by humans, into the ocean, not thinking of what this is doing to the ocean's environment. This particular combination of items is to show the debris that are rapidly become common place in the Earth's oceans.

A Rock Cook (also known as 'small mouth wrasse') is a colourful small-sized fish found living among seaweed beds located throughout the ocean waters of Britain and Ireland as well as in the eastern Atlantic from Norway to Portugal and Greenland. It eats various crustaceans and is considered a 'cleaner fish' since it removes ectoparasites from other fish. It is ironic that this fish is a 'cleaner fish', taking care of other fish, yet must live in a polluted ocean, due to the thoughtless humans with whom it shares its environment..