I've got a few dozen bird houses available for purchase. In addition to full size homes, I also have tiny versions that are perfect for fairy gardens or hostess gifts. Each is a work of art in itself. The media varies from mixed media collage to original paintings. Some (like the green house in the center, above) are wrapped in acrylic pours on canvas. I really love using the bird houses as my substrate. Many are test studies as I play with various media and color combos. I

Sea Turtle Triptych I love diptychs and triptychs, although I'd never completed one in a large-scale format. This is my first attempt... I still have a few tweaks to go on it. Typical of my process, once I finish I'll set it aside as one might set aside a glass of wine to breathe. When I'm immersed in a project I go through love/hate phases, and at the end I observe for a while to identify any adjustments that need to be made. I once had an art teacher who explained that som

Avocets Afire 16"X8" on stretched gallery-wrapped canvas. In-progress photo of a work recently accepted for the Grays Harbor Shorebird...

[24"x20" Mixed Media Collage] Yet another that I recently finished after my nursing home hiatus. This sea turtle makes use of collage...

Octopus Cacaphony (20"x24 mixed media collage) I've been finishing projects I had started before my nursing home stay. This one uses...

Who does not love light houses? They're the stuff of lore going back to ancient times, coastal phalli protecting seamen. We have one just...

I sort of took a week off after the Art Splash studio tour. I hadn't planned on making any art this week, but made I did, finishing a...

This week I moved from an octopus series to a sea turtle series. Who can look at new hatchlings scrambling from their nests to meet the...

Just started a mixed media torn paper collage and acrylic painting of Henry David, a Virginia cat who went to The Bridge recently. His...

I'm finishing the last of my current octopus series this week. This is another behemoth: 36"x24" mixed media on stretched canvas. In...

I have not done a self-portrait since college, when my professor, Fr Sullivan, was unimpressed with my first attempt. He was right; it...

I go through periods during which I consume more art by fellow artists than I produce myself. I LOVE ART! It's been a few years...

How can you resist leafing through a mid-century Monkey Wards catalog? Its pages were used for the background of this action-packed image...