After a long break from intermittent blog posting (3 years roughly), I have reworked my site and am prepping for more activity here, on social media and YouTube. And, it’s all about my recent work with watercolors and the classes that I teach with non-majors. These non-majors are telling me the watercolor process is therapeutic …
New Travel Pieces
A couple of new watercolors from scenes in Sicily and Japan. House of the Rising Sun
Winter scenes
A couple of winter scenes of barns along highway 36 in Missouri. Along a familiar route: Watercolor Somewhere along highway 36: Watercolor
A Shadow of Former Glory
My first watercolor for 2019. An old farmhouse in the hills southwest of Delphos, Kansas. The photos below show the house 100 years or so ago and the sad state it is in now.
New Stuff
I haven't posted anything in a while. Been working on speeding up my work and I have become more and more interested in Plein Air painting, as is everyone. Nothing like jumping onto a trend. I'm looking at the long game. Something to do in retirement in a few years. I have seen some benefits …
Images from class
About nine years ago as I was settling in as chair for the art department, I realized I wasn't getting much done creatively. Other than a few freelance book cover designs, I was not producing at a level I wanted. My gouache technique was too time intensive for the time I had available. Fortunately, much …
Put a dog in it
I've used dogs as subject matter in many of my illustrations. It wasn't a deliberate decision, I just noticed that they were showing up frequently. Growing up in rural Kansas, on a farm, dogs were just natural companions. They kept things under control with all the wildlife that came out at night. We raised sheep …
Indian Lookout
There is a rock formation about five miles south of Delphos, Kansas that has been a local feature and tourist destination since the settlers arrived in the 1870's. Of course the Indians of the area knew about it and used it as a lookout over the valley. Hence the name. It is a relative high …
The demo birds
I am going to use the blog feature on this site as a means to include detail about my illustrations. I have already blogged two short posts about couple of recent pieces. This post is about the little watercolor birds you'll see on this site. They are the result of in-class watercolor demonstrations in my …
Lesotho landscape
This is a watercolor of the site where my daughter was posted in Lesotho, south Africa while in the Peace Corps. She was in a remote area and lived on the Tiping School compound where she taught high school math. This is looking north and the small buildings in the foreground are latrines and the …
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