Paintings > 2020 Watercolors

Sun Starved Forsythia
watercolor on paper
10 x 11" ( 26 x 28 cm)
2020
April Squall
watercolor on paper
10 x 11" ( 26 x 28 cm)
2020
April Thaw
watercolor on paper
10 x 11" ( 26 x 28 cm)
2020
Bending Pine
watercolor on paper
10 x 11" ( 26 x 28 cm)
2020
Cat Cumulus
watercolor on paper
10 x 11" ( 26 x 28 cm)
2020
Detail - Cat Cumulus
watercolor on paper
10 x 11" ( 26 x 28 cm)
2020
Pinecone Gold
watercolor on paper
10 x 11" ( 26 x 28 cm)
2020
Shadow Walkers
watercolor on paper
10 x 11" ( 26 x 28 cm)
2020
Boulder Wave
watercolor on paper
10 x 11" ( 26 x 28 cm)
2020
Thin Ice
watercolor on paper
10 x 11" ( 26 x 28 cm)
2020
Thus Sprach Thunder Squirrel
watercolor on paper
10 x 11" ( 26 x 28 cm)
2020
Cherry Blossom
watercolor on paper
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2020
Ultra Violet
watercolor on paper
10 x 11" ( 26 x 28 cm)
2020
The Lightning Bugs of '72
watercolor on paper
10 x 11" ( 26 x 28 cm)
2020
The Hills Are Restless
watercolor on paper
10 x 11" ( 26 x 28 cm)0 x 11" ( 26 x 28 cm)
2020
Dolphin Grass
watercolor on paper
10 x 11" ( 26 x 28 cm)
2020
Dolphin Grass
watercolor on paper
10 x 11" ( 26 x 28 cm)
2020
Backwoods Donnybrook
watercolor on paper
10 x 11" ( 26 x 28 cm)
2020
Naked Chestnut No.1
watercolor on paper
10 x 11" ( 26 x 28 cm)
2020
March Breath
watercolor on paper
10 x 11" ( 26 x 28 cm)
2020
Naked Chestnut No.2
watercolor on paper
10 x 11" ( 26 x 28 cm)
2020
Slothy Love
watercolor on paper
10 x 11" ( 26 x 28 cm)
2020
Tiger Hiver
watercolor on paper
10 x 11" ( 26 x 28 cm)
2020
Blue Hoot
watercolor on paper
10 x 11" ( 26 x 28 cm)
2020
Appalachian Pin-Ball
watercolor on paper
10 x 11" ( 26 x 28 cm)
2020
2020
Waikiki Wet Dream
watercolor on paper
10 x 11" ( 26 x 28 cm)
2020
Coppertone Kingpin
watercolor on paper
10 x 11" ( 26 x 28 cm)
2020

Appalachian Lockdown - Watercolors Vol. I

I’ve been making watercolors since I first traveled to Siberia as a student in 1994. That trip changed my life, and sent me home with my first serious body of work. I’m continuously drawn back to the watercolors because of their spontaneity, immediacy, and fragility. When the Coronavirus pandemic began to seriously sink in I found my concentration in the studio shortening and veering off track. I decided to carve out a part of each day to paint watercolors outside. Because watercolors are so delicate, and the margin between good and horrible so thin, I’m forced to be extremely present in the moment. Being stationery and painting in the middle of the woods for a couple hours each day has almost been a kind of elixir. It’s also spring here in the Appalachian mountains of Pennsylvania, and the thaw and rebirth of the forest and all the creatures within it has injected a much needed dose of color and life. These paintings are improvisations on the landscape around me, but also what is brimming within.