Recent piece inspired by found objects. I found a pair of steampunk-looking sunglasses in the road on a recent walk. I put them on Cal the Skull and he chomped one of my ruined brushes. Jake thought an artist beret would be cool, so I added my wool hat and a book that was a reject from the library sale (too torn up). The little squishy toy heart is a drug company giveaway.
11″ x 14″ acrylic on board
The old apple tree in our yard sheds every year, and every year we fail to use the apples. All the local rabbits, raccoons and birds help themselves. A few posed for pictures before I chucked them in the compost.
8″ x 10″ acrylic on canvas panel
A really early piece, with a different plastic skull and some old books, and an old dusty purex bottle that stole the show. I threw in a couple of fall alder leaves to make a sort of classic Memento Mori.
9″ x 11.7″ acrylic on panel
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A high-chroma assemblage of my best beachcombed stuff. Abalone, fishing floats, driftwood and some oyster shells, and a prized Japanese glass float. It’s all on my cool ’80s beach towel.
11″ x 14″ acrylic on panel
Along the Methow River we found this old skull, caught in the rocks. In an earlier, easier time I would have dragged this incredibly interesting, decomposing thing home and made a sculpture out of it, but I’m older and wiser now. I took a bunch of photos and left it there for the coyotes.
12″ x 16″ acrylic on canvas panel
The best of my glass pictures from last summer. A coke in a juice glass that was almost gone. Also, Mexican Coca-Cola isn’t twist-top–you need an old-fashioned bottle opener to enjoy it. This painting was exhibited in the Edmonds Arts Festival in 2021, and is framed as shown.
11″ x 14″ acrylic on panel
Oil pastels are a lot of fun. Old-school milk bottle with a dead lichen-covered twig from our ancient apple tree.
8″ x 11″ oil pastel on paper
On an old blue tablecloth, objects of curioslty. I stacked some old books, a scrounged bear skull, an old postcard and a feather to sort of create an old sciency-naturalist vibe. Then some marbles snuck in. I haven’t lost all of them.
12″ x 16″ acrylic on canvas board
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