'FIGURE 36'   Nude Study

In this study with a live model, I was looking for her gesture and the quality of energy that she exudes. Even though she is relaxed, her legs looked as if they could spring to action. Like a tiger at rest. I used a technique of wiping out the lights from a wet layer of yellow ochre and then adding darker values and highlights back in.

Oil on board

11" X 14"

$200. until Jan 11 (after that contact artist for info)

'YELLOW PEAR'                                                                                       The pear and its reflection on the kitchen counter  caught my eye and so I spent the  morning with my paints and tried to re-create the sense of color and light.

5" X 7"

Oil on board

$100.

'MEHER'                               Meher Baba                             The word Meher means compassion. This painting was created for a fundraiser to benefit a rural free clinic in a remote area of India. The clinic was established by Dr. Goher, a close disciple of Meher Baba. She devoted her life to Meher Baba both as his personal physician and through her work attending to the medical needs of the very poor villagers who came to the clinic. Although Dr. Goher has passed on, her clinic continues to serve in the loving way she established it, and relies on donations. Small donations go a very long way.

http://www.meherfund.org

14" X 18"

sold

"MEHERANA ROAD' Landscape  Cathey's Valley, California

This was painted on location last spring in the late afternoon. When the sun is low the colors on the ridge across the road become a riot of oranges and reds. 

Oil on board, unframed

11" X 14"

$500. until Jan 15

'RED HILLS' Carquinez strait landscape

I was experimenting with inventing a composition using thicker paint, lots of color and working some with a palette knife. This was done during a workshop with Jerrold Turner- a wonderful painter and generous teacher.

9 "X 12"

Oil on linen covered hardboard

$150.

ROCKS AND OCEAN

The Pacific Coast near Asilomar

I saw this view of the ocean from a sea-weedy bluff just south of Asilomar. The composition looks like a Chinese brush painting... I used to own some and looked at them at lot- so they influenced the way I saw this scene.

9" X 12"

Oil on linen covered board

$200.

CLOUDS & WATER

This is the small quick painting I did after 'MAUVE CLOUDS'. The fog was rolling in over the horizon by then.

Oil on hardboard

5" X 7"

$100.