Flower Paintings
pageSipping Tulips oil on canvas, 12″x24″
Sipping Tulips oil on canvas, 12″x24″
Drawings are on 140 lb watercolor paper and are drawn with archival Indian ink pens. I draw almost every morning when relaxing with my morning coffee. My drawings are usually finished works in themselves, stimulating my thoughts and ideas but not usually sketches for paintings. They are design challenges – since they are done in ink without prior sketching, the imagery flows rather spontaneously without premeditation. Once the ink line is drawn there is no going back to erase a … Read More
My ceramics are hand built from slabs. These pieces were created by pressing wet clay slabs into a rubbery hand carving. Each piece is additionally hand worked and unique in its detail. The bowls were pressed with different carvings on the top and bottom while the clay slab was flat. The bowl is then placed on a plaster hump, worked some more and allowed to dry. I press my carved designs for the vases into clay slabs before … Read More