Banana Flowers

I am in Miami visiting my best friend Krisse
She is gifted with a green thumb, among other praises for her hands. One of these days she will have a website to show her one to two feet tall fabulous porcelain sculptures. It drives me nuts, no! BANANAS, to know they are so hidden from sight. Krisse has more talent in her pinkie than I have in my whole being.
This drawing measures 9 x 12 inches
color pencil on heavy archival paper

Four Palms in pencil

My favorite thing about Florida is the palm trees and the weird lighting. This pencil and watercolor painting can be shipped to you for $85... it is a little piece of southern exposure. 12 x 9 inches on heavy archival paper.

Meditation drawing: Buddha

This is an exercise in being still.
Color pencil on paper 15 x 11 inches.

I am actually flying to Miami through the ice storm...

remember to breathe!

Flying Chair

My mind is racing ahead of my body. It is another snow day. All the schools are closed. I have been clearing my desk, and spent some time (between feeding the boys) looking over last years sales totals and expense numbers. It's a challenge, really, to keep upbeat. My resume is updated. I've filed for grants and submitted work to databases. A voice in the wind says I need to find another job. Maybe this little painting will sell? $100 or best offer.
Ink and paint on paper, 5 x 4.5 inches

Remains of the hearth

I read somewhere that visual artists are caught between an external world and their product- be it a painting/sculpture/production- which is an external product of the world. Artist's don't know, and perhaps they are searching, for who they are somewhere in the air between life and art.

This image gets to me because the sky is SO blue... like nothing traumatic has ever happened. The world just keeps on spinning and time passes. Flowers eventually grow on battlefields.

acrylic on canvas 9 x 12 inches.

House Up in Smoke

Where there is smoke- there is fire.

Started with a spilled cup of coffee...
Paper pencil and paint
12 x 9 inches

Chinese New Year- OX

Here are two meditations... color pencil/paper drawings, measuring 7 x 5 inches. 

January 26th marks the beginning of the Chinese year 4706, also called the year of the OX. The ox, one of the twelve-year-cycle names, is sturdy, dependable, solid and, believing he is always right, the ox rarely backs up. In Christianity he is the symbol for Luke, the apostle, and a signifies sacrifice. The Chinese new year is always celebrated on the second new moon after the winter solstice. I have included Ox Eye daisies in my designs as well as the chinese calligraphic symbol, Ji Chou, for the ox.

I am going to a Chinese new years party this afternoon and am eager to taste some dumplings! One of these drawings will be a gift for the household.
Happy New Years... may the symbol of the ox- in both it's strength and it's sacrificial persona- give us clarity.