Colorati

Chianti
Rosa

Arancione

Azzuro

Pia Reilly, a Swedish watercolorist that has lived in Petersburg for 20+ years and I are having a two person show at Seaport Gallery starting on November 23rd. It is called "Colorati" which means color in Italian because both of us use lots of color in our art. I did two series of paintings. The first are dog heads using amplified color. They are 24" by 24" squares.

Morning

This is my entry into the women's invitational Collage show held at the Clausen Memorial Museum during the month of November. It is titled 'Morning' and is made of fabric from Melissa Carraway's scraps pile with a background of acrylic paint.

Georgia O'Keeffe Skirts

Last spring I was privileged to be asked to help fabric artist, Susan Christensen, create skirts for our local dance troupe, the Steppin Out Dancers. The theme was Georgia O'Keeffe flowers so we used her palette to create skirts by painting dye on cotton. These are a couple of examples.

Lined goes to the Clausen Memorial Museum

I made some revisions of the painting "Lined" that I entered into the "Life Lines" show in 2006 and offered it to the Clausen Memorial Museum to be purchased with their Art Acquisition Fund provided by the Rasmuson Foundation. It was accepted and will be a part of the museum's permanent collection.

Their link is http://www.rasmuson.org/

This is what I wrote in the application: I painted “Lined” soon after a tour of Italy that concentrated on Renaissance painting. I was moved by the Italian masters’ use of the human form to portray emotion and tell stories. This is a Petersburg story of hard work and harvest. While the weight of the fish may be heavy, it also represents prosperity. The painting crosses time lines because the subject is obviously a Madonna type in green overalls and orange rubber gloves. I tried to blur the edges of reality with the symbolic fish and hard lined areas. My design also left the negative space fairly simple to try and keep the viewer concentrated on the woman’s face.

Fish on Parade

Our local mental health not-for-profit asked 14 Petersburg artists to decorate fiber glass salmon casts so they could put them out for auction as a fund raiser. After having spent a few days in Las Vegas I was in an Elvis state of mind, so I thought that the King and a King salmon could be a combined concept. I created "The King" with a little paper mache, some metalic cloth and some rhine stones...and of couse a little paint.

He now resides at Lee's Clothing on Main Street...but will probably spend some time at the Beachcomber Inn during the summer.

Ole

This is a painting of a neighbor's dog that I did as a surprise because he so kindly made me beautiful jewelery out of rocks I collected during my explorations. Ole is so smart he learned how to open the front door. My friends quickly taught him to close it as well after he enters...who needs a doggie door.

Summer Cruising

I've been out on my floating home exploring Southeast Alaska. Despite the time demands of fly fishing, kayaking and salmon mooching, I managed to paint a few paintings. We saw

lots of bears so it is not surprising I painted a couple.

And right before I left, I went to the mainland and found some tern nests at the base of a glacier. I was inspired to paint an Arctic tern.