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Watercolor: Jean the Gardener (10.5" x 10.5")
From a June 2012 photo of Jean in her garden, wearing her characteristic well-worn straw hat. She loves planting and harvesting tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, and squash, plus fruit of all varieties. Finished Dec 2013. Watercolor on 140# Arches hot press paper, 10.5" x 10.5". Not for sale.
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Watercolor: Evangeline, Christmas 2014 - 10.5" x 14.5"
This is a portrait of Evangeline at Christmas, a few days before she began to crawl in earnest. At the time she was about 5-1/2 months. I gave this to Jean on Mother's Day. Watercolor, 10.5" x 14". In a private collection: J. Wilson.
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Watercolor: Bluegrass Banjo - 14" x 14"
There's so much energy in a bluegrass band. Here's a member of the Jumpsteady Boys plucking a banjo at the Father's Day California Bluegrass Festival at Grass Valley Fairgrounds on June 19, 2015. Watercolor, 14" x 14". This painting was juried into the "Go with the Flow" 2015 WASH Open Show at the Sacramento Fine Arts Center, Sept 1-26, 2015.
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Watercolor: Bluegrass Fiddler - 10.5" x 14.5"
Here's a member of the Jumpsteady Boys demonstrating a song at the Father's Day California Bluegrass Festival at the Grass Valley Fairgrounds, June 19, 2015. Watercolor, 10.5" x 14.5".
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Watercolor: Bluegrass Autoharp - "14 x 14"
This was inspired by Judie Pagter who sang with her bluegrass autoharp at the California Bluegrass Festival in Grass Valley, June 19, 2015. Pagter is a trooper who has sung mountain music all her life and has written many songs. She's also active with music in her Methodist church back in Virginia. Watercolor, 14.5" x 14.5"
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Watercolor: Bluegrass Long-Necked Banjo - 20" x 14"
I saw this character playing a long-necked banjo at the Father's Day California Bluegrass Festival at the Nevada City Fairgrounds, June 19, 2015. He is Carl Pagter, a founder of the California Bluegrass Association. He sang with his former wife, Judie Pagter on the Pioneers Stage. He came with his funky leather top hat. I placed him with an Appalachian mountain background. Watercolor, 20" x 14".
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Watercolor: Angels Weep with Us, 20" x 14"
This is my interpretation of the often-replicated "Angel of Grief" (1894) gravestone sculpture in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome by William Wetmore Story. The gravestone, of course, is grey, but I wanted to capture the life of the angel in my painting. The monument is at the grave of the sculptor's long-time wife, Emelyn Story, who died in 1895 in Rome at the age of 74; he died later the same year. Watercolor, 20" x 14". In a private collection: J. Wilson.
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Watercolor: February Sun - 14.5" x 14.5"
While Jean and I were on our anniversary trip to Pt. Reyes in February 2016, we saw this guy, Greg, a traveler from place to place, who had his shirt off and was sunning himself, sitting crosslegged on a table in the small park in Pt. Reyes Station, CA during the noon hour. Beautiful body, but a cigarette? Watercolor, 14.5" x 14.5".
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