Standing on Two Legs

SOLD to a collector from Laramie, WY

This was a marvelous art deco Texaco station in Rock River, WY. After I-80 diverted most traffic away from Highways 287 & 30, many of these businesses closed. 2 of the large pillars had been knocked down, and the place was boarded up. The building was sold to a fellow who thought he could take out all the internal supports & make a large shopping mart. Needless to say, the Wyoming winds blew the building down. This was a 20x28" pastel.

Orange Glow

SOLD to a collector from Laramie, WY

This large 22x28" pastel features an observed sky with a stylized foreground with slightly exaggerated the colors.

Roadside Burn

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I enjoy the opportunity to record tendrils of shadows as they dance across the plains. Here, I got the added opportunity to record a recent burn adjacent to the highway. This 22x28" pastel is matted and framed, so overall it measures close to 30x40".

Wyoming Cumulus

SOLD to a collector from Gillette, WY

In Wyoming I really hate to have paintings called landscapes. I would rather consider many as SKYscapes. The funny thing about this large pastel was that everyone kept asking me if I ever "did" antelope. Finally, in desperation. I sharpened a few NuPastels to a point & with a few quick lines added a few antelope. I did not want to switch my subject from sky to animal. Afterwards, I could point to these tiny bits of color & say, "See, I "do" antelope."

New Additions

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This small house is located under the viaduct in Laramie and down the street from a lumber mill. All the windows are at different levels, and the entire house is made up of a sundry assortment of lumber, as if the occupant brought home a stick of wood every night and expanded his home each day. Although painted white, the owner had used several shades of white, hence the different colored additions as well.

Fruit Demo

This was a 9x12" watercolor I did as a class demo showing how pigment could be removed with a damp brush, a bit of a challenge when you paint while walking around a classroom.

Sundown Near Chugwater

Sold to the University of Wyoming Departemtn of Engineering

This acrylic painting is 16"x72". I am finding it almost impossible to document. My husband was buying an old car & I was enjoying seeing some new country. The time of day was just perfect for this composition!

Sundown Near Chugwater (detail)

SOLD to the University of Wyoming Department of Engineering
This is the left 1/3 of a 6 foot wide panoramic painting I just finished in acrylics. Elongated shadows in the late afternoon near the town of Chugwater, Wyoming made this a dramatic landscape. I have always liked the hills and plains much more than the forested areas.

Storm Warning, landscape

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This 22x28" pastel was done from a photo I took while driving toward Laramie a few summer's ago. I loved this cloud as it came rolling into view.

Inside Out, cityscape

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This unusual building had the address above a wall with a doorway which led into a back yard. Neither house on either side of this "doorway" had an address, so I decided to do this watercolor to commemorate the event.

Wyoming Floral Landscape

SOLD to a customer from Laramie, WY

I did this on site along side a secondary highway in Wyoming. By sitting low to the ground, I could raise the forground foliage and incorporate it into the scene behind. 5x7" acrylic.

Wyoming Stock Pond

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This fenceline catching tumbleweeds at sundown bordered a stock pond very near the Wyoming & Montana Border. I liked the way the upper & lower halves of the image are so different...one in its natural state, the other half manipulated by man.

Wyoming In Spring

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I live at 7200 ft and our springs come in with a vengeance, bringing our snowstorms & water. This is spring as I know it. This 5x7" acrylic was painted on site from the INSIDE of my car, sparing me from the blustery weather.

Wyoming Fenceline

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This 5x7" acrylic was done on site just east of Laramie. As usual, the fence didn't seem to be keeping anything in nor preventing anything from getting out.

The Sky Below

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This 5x7" acrylic was done on site. We call these "prairie puddles". I caught the reflection of the sky above in the puddle below.

Munton Windows

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This small watercolor is only 3x3" in a 5x5" gold frame. I did it on site when I discovered these munton windows which had been totally covered in paint. Had it not been for the broken panes I never would have noticed the windows.

Painting in Progress

This painting is at the underpainting stage. I am just about to add midtones & then highlights. The painting measures 16"x72". I found this scene up near Chugwater Wyoming very late last fall & have just now gotten around to trying it in the studio.

Road to Nowhere

SOLD to a collector from Laramie, WY

This road extends 53 miles before you get to the original homestead near Laramie Peak in Wyoming. Pastel, 22x28" on sandpaper, gold frame approx 30x40".

Soon to be Sauce

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This acrylic was done as an in-class demo showing how the local newspaper could be transferred onto wet paint and how colored glazings could redirect the composition.

Reverberation

SOLD to a collector in Voorhees, New Jersey
This brilliantly colored 9x12" watercolor was created by dropping pigment in a wet page, allowing to dry, and then painting within the drops & runs.

Sunlit

This small watercolor started out as a spatter painting and loose yellow-green wash.

Handsome One

This is my version of the mask I did for the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) fundraiser in Fort Collins, CO.

White 'Fro

SOLD to a collector from Laramie, Wyoming

The interesting thing I found about this drawing was that the man was neither black nor his hair & beard white.

Red

SOLD to a collector from Laramie, Wyoming,

Once in a while you become seduced by color. This isn't a particularly successful drawing, but I had a good time trying to resolve it.

Tri Sunset

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This is a small triptych composed of 3 one-foot canvases Produced with a large brush, there is little to no detail.

Oasis

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This "two seater" is located amongst abandoned motel cabins in Bosler, Wyoming. I recorded it with my pastels before it disppears along with the rest of the town.

Love's Theater, Hanna Wyoming

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This southwest style theater was along Highway 30 in the days when bands would perform live acts. The movies were accompanied by a piano. The building was razed by the UPRR due to potential liability concerns.

Radials & Radii

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I found the naturally recurring circular motifs within this scene fascinating. These were kiln pieces from an old cement plant which had been delivered to our junkyard. The tires, barrels, shadows, and circular variations within the kiln pieces made an intersting oil. 18x24" in dark brown wooden frame.

Wind's Victory

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I made an acrylic "sketch" of the prevailing wind dominating a fenceline and it started to remind me of a checkered racing flag. I might develop this idea more to fruition in the furure.

Brush

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This 9x12" watercolor was an in-class demonstration of various ideas in watercolor techniques. I liked it enough to include it here.

Watercolor Jujubes

SOLD to a collector from Fargo, North Dakota
This small watercolor started out as a yellow wash with green & orange dropped upon it. These color shapes gave me inspiration to complete the work. 6X9" muted yellow mat and 16x20" gold metallic frame.

Winter Serenity

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Bright sunshine on an icy cold & slightly windy Wyoming day. Did this pastel in my studio, avoiding the seb-zero chill factor.

Boom!

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9x12" acrylic using transferred letters from our local paper, the Boomerang, as inspiration. This is matted in white & displayed in a 16x20" gold metal frame.

Fruit Basket

SOLD to a collector in Laramie Wyoming

I decided to take 2 small paintings & incorporate them together in a collage. This was a fun & light-hearted piece of art to compose.

45 Degrees

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Spring of the year in Wyoming's Sybille Canyon, I did a few acrylic sketches of cool shade & warm sunlight on the hillside. 9x12" acrylic with beige mat & 16x20" oak frame

Sage Subdivisions

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I was in Saratoga, WY and saw a golf course on one side of the road and sagebrush on the other. When I returned to the studio, I could not help but paint something relating to these unusual divisions of color I had just seen that day.

Eviter II

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I could not resist drawing this ebony beauty from Kenya. She is ethnically stunning. I put her in a wonderful primitive frame with museum glass.

Am I Blue?

SOLD to a customer from Laramie, WY
This woman's wrap becomes part of a panorama I viewed from the top of the Bighorn Mountains in northern Wyoming. I enjoyed creating this portrait in blue. This 30 x 40" painting is framed in a black enameled wooden frame.

Cloudburst

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Thought I would try just a bit of abstraction for a change. This reminds me of woven tapestries and overlapping landscapes. 30x40" unframed acrylic on canvas

Guru

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This was the first pastel I did in Mike Beeman's portrait workshop. I had a terrific time & learned a lot. I have never really drawn people before. Sometimes I feel I ride in on a horse of a totally different color, but to each his own.

White Thunderhead

SOLD to a collector from Laramie Wyoming

Fantastic Western skyscape! After a perfectly miserable day of car troubles I was rewarded by this scene. Pastel on sandpaper, my favorite base upon which to work.

Green Derby

SOLD to a collector from Laramie Wyoming

This was a commission I did for the people that ran this restaurant in Casper, Wyoming during the 1970's

Grizzled

SOLD to a collector from Gering Nebraska
Pastel portrait done during a workshop held by Mike Beeman in Cheyenne, WY.