 Watercolor: Noyo Headlands, Fort Bragg, CA - 20" x 14"
I visited the Mendocino coast on a beautiful mid-July day. This is the rugged Noyo Headland as it juts out into the mighty Pacific. The Noyo Headland is also the site of an airstrip developed by the Union Lumber Company and in service from 1949 to 2002 when the mill shut down. 220818. Watercolor. 20" x 14". In a private collection, DJ Wilson.
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 Watercolor: Seaside Creek Beach, Mendocino Coast - 20" x 14"
On a June 2022 trip to Fort Bragg, I was fascinated by the many shapes as various headlands and points of land thrust into the Pacific, along with the splash and foam of the restless sea. This is Seaside Creek Beach, north of Fort Bragg. If you look closely, you can see a lone family enjoying the day. Watercolor. 20" x 14".
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 Watercolor: Russian Gulch Cove at Flood Tide - 14" x 21"
Russian Gulch State Park is just a mile or two north of the town of Mendocino along the North California coast. I was fascinated by the outcropping that becomes a small island at high tide. At its crest are a few leggy examples of Mendocino Shore Pine. The forested slopes that rise from the shore have a mixture of Coast Redwood, Douglas-fir, and others. When I photographed it in July 2022, the tide was out, but using artistic license, a brought in a flood tide which pushes the beach under the bridge and makes the outcropping an island. 221208. Watercolor, 21" x 14".
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 Watercolor: Rocky Coast near Point Arena - 14" x 10"
On July 20, 2022 I enjoyed a spectacular drive on Highway 1 from Fort Bragg south to Bodega Bay, stopping for photos along the way. This is a point of land and beach just a few miles south of Point Arena, Mendocino County, California. 221208. Watercolor, 14" x 10".
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 Watercolor: John Alden and Priscilla Mullins - 2 - 6 x 6.5"
My children and I are related to two "Mayflower" passengers through my mother's side of the family -- John Alden and Priscilla Mullins.
This pair of paintings is after C.W. Georges, an otherwise unknown artist. They were published in 1906 by a lithograph company in New York, Ullman Manufacturing Co., as both prints and post cards. 221224. Watercolor, 2 paintings, each 6.0 x 6.5 inches.
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 Watercolor: Dilapidated Wharf on Tomales Bay - 14" x 10"
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In mid-December 2022 my son Dan and I took a photo day at Point Reyes National Park. This dilapidated wharf at the south end of Tomales Bay no longer reaches open water, but is surrounded reeds. The flying Great Egrets are common along the Bay. 230115. Watercolor on rough paper, 14" x 10".
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 Watercolor: Mouth of Keys Creek at Tomales Bay - 14" x 10"
Keys Creek empties into the north end of Tomales Bay. This is a view looking east across the narrow bay from the north end of the Point Reyes Peninsula. 230128. Watercolor on rough Arches paper. 14" x 10".
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 Watercolor: The Sower (after Millet) - 10" x 14"
'The Sower' (1850) by Jean-Francois Millet has inspired artists like van Gogh and Tissot. Here's my attempt at a possible bookcover for my study Parables of Jesus for Disciples (2023). 230124. Watercolor and ink on hot press paper, 10" x 14".
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 Watercolor: Monterey Cypress on California's North Coast - 14" x 21"
Monterey Cypress (Cupressus macrocarpa) is native to the area around Pacific Grove. But a century or more ago people began to plant it along the north coast in Sonoma and Mendocino Counties. These tall trees was a theme of Bay Area artist Arthur Mathews (1860-1945). This is my attempt at the genre. The background is the north coast beyond the Westport Headlands (north of Fort Bragg). 230123. Watercolor, 14" x 21".
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 Watercolor: Rocks at Noyo Headlands, Fort Bragg - 10" x 10"
Last weekend Jean and I were in Placerville for our anniversary. There I visited the Volution Gallery and saw some of the beautiful work of Rebecca Roehr. That inspired me to abstract this view of the rocks using bold colors and bold lines. It's a scene looking WSW along the Noyo Headlands near Fort Bragg, California. I kind of like it. :-) 230106. Watercolor and ink, 10" x 10".
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 Watercolor: 10 Mile Beach and Point Reyes - 21" x 9"
In mid-December 2022, my son Dan and I took the Pierce Point Road to the north end of Point Reyes Peninsula. Near the summit is a wonderful panoramic view of the lonely 10 Mile Beach stretching out into the mists toward the tip of Point Reyes. Exhibited in the WASH ‘Awash with Color’ Member Exhibition at the Sacramento Fine Arts Center, March 28-April 15, 2023. 230209. Watercolor, 21" x 9".
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 Watercolor - Dusk over the Pacific - 20" x 14"
I love the leggy, wonky shapes of these Monterey Cypress trees (Cupressus macrocarpa}. Native to the Monterey-Carmel area of California, in the early 1900s they were planted along the North Coast from San Francisco to Fort Bragg and north. This painting reflects a row of trees at the edge of a golf course. Won Honorable Mention in the WASH ‘Awash with Color’ Member Exhibition at the Sacramento Fine Arts Center, March 28-April 15, 2023. 230315. Watercolor on 300 lb. cold press paper, 20" x 14". In the artist's personal collection.
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 Watercolor: Blue Dicks and a Poppy - 10" x 14"
On Friday, Jean and I went walking along the Miners' Ravine Trail in Roseville, enjoying the bubbling creek and fields of wildflowers. I was especially struck by a couple of solitary California Poppies (Eschscholzia californica) in a robust field of Blue Dicks (Dipterostemon capitatus) or Wild Hyacinth. I couldn't resist the opportunity to celebrate spring's coming with my interpretation of the color and variety. 230326. Watercolor on hot press paper, 10" x 14".
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 Watercolor: Grape Hyacinth - 10" x 14"
In early April, tiny Grape Hyacinth (Muscari sp.) was growing along the walkway to Annie's house. In my painting they are much larger than life -- and beautiful! I am experiment with painting plants against a white background. 230412. Watercolor and ink, 10" x 14".
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 Watercolor: Bleeding Heart - 20 x 14 in
While Jean and I were walking at Green Acres Nursery this spring, I saw such wonderful curves and color in Bleeding Heart (Dicentra sp.). It has long been a favorite garden perennial. It was exhibited in the juried WASH Open Show "Go with the Flow" (August 15-September 10, 2023). 230508. Watercolor, 20" x 14".
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 Watercolor: St. Columba, Apostle to Scotland, 14" x 20"
I've been lately about how much I owe to St. Columba (521-597 AD), an Irish abbot who became the apostle to Scotland, winning the wild Picts to Christ -- my ancestors. Columba brought 12 monks with him to Scotland about 563 AD, founding a monastery at Iona, from which missions went all over northern Scotland. 230517. Watercolor and ink, 14" x 20".
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 Watercolor: Purple and White Iris, 10" x 14"
The record winter and spring rains resulted in the largest number of iris blossoms in our yard in memory. This purple and off-white blossom was particular beautiful. 230518. Watercolor, 10" x 14".
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 Watercolor: FFA Hoop Holder, 20" x 14"
In late April we took our granddaughters to Future Farmers of America (FFA) day at Del Oro High School. One of the activities was imagining that a hula hoop was a lariat to be thrown over (fake) steer horns. The young woman here had brought animals to be displayed. I added the horse and fence in the background to add ambience. 230525. Watercolor, 14" x 20".
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 Watercolor: Seven Poppies, 14" x 10"
The record winter and spring rains this year brought and abundance of poppies. These seven blossoms seemed to fit nicely together. Watercolor, 14" x 10".
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 Watercolor: Half Bucket of Tulips, 10" x 14"
I was looking for something colorful to paint to express my Springtime spirit and came across a bucket of colorful tulips. I cut it in half for the sake of composition enjoyed modeling each of the blossoms. 230523. Watercolor, 10" x 14".
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 Watercolor: Winter Bare Oak - 14" x 10"
This past winter I've admired a grand Valley Oak at the curve on Horseshoe Bar Road, near where it intersects with Laird Road. In the summer, all leafed out, it is wonderful. But in the winter without a leaf in sight, you can see all the contorted structure of great branches, smaller branches, branchlets, and twigs. That's what I tried to capture here. 230602. Ink and watercolor on hot press #140 paper.
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 Watercolor: Jesus' Parables for Disciples bookcover
This week I receive the first copies from the printer of my new book Jesus' Parables for Disciples (JesusWalk Publications, 2023), 321 pages. I painted the cover after Jean-François Millet's 'The Sower' (1850). Vincent Van Gogh also used this painting for inspiration for his "Sower'. 230620. Book cover size: 7.5" x 9.25" paperback.
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 Watercolor: Ruth's Rose - 20" x 14"
On Memorial Day 2023 we were invited to a wonderful family gathering at Tina and Jackie's home in Nevada City. Outside the northwest corner of the patio was a 10 to 12-foot rosebush, crowned by a sunlit-shining rose that I sought to memorialize here. It was exhibited in the juried WASH Open Show "Go with the Flow" (August 15-September 10, 2023) and won the coveted Dorothy Steed Award. 230621. Watercolor, 20" x 14".
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 Watercolor: Eye of Wisdom, 10" x 10"
When I looked into the eyes of a friend recently, I was struck by how they looked aged and wise. They reminded me of the eyes of the 100-year-old fictional character Rose in the Titanic movie, who narrated the movie and looked at the camera with wise, wrinkled, 100-year-old eyes. 230626. Watercolor, 10" x 10".
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