by Randy
on May 18, 2010
in Emotion, Nature

12″ x 16″ Original Watercolor on handmade paper
My daughter made this vase and she loves Daisies, so I placed it on my back porch and painted it. Rich with meaning.
by Randy
on May 18, 2010
in Emotion, Nature, People, Travel

12″ x 16″ Original Watercolor on handmade paper SOLD
I snapped this photograph at Murchison Falls in Uganda overlooking the Nile River. The scene captured so much emotion and symbolism.
by Randy
on April 16, 2010
in Emotion, Food & Drink, People

12″ x 16″ Original Watercolor on handmade paper
“There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.” —Lord Byron
by Randy
on April 9, 2010
in Emotion, Nudes

12″ x 16″ Original Watercolor on handmade paper
“You know, it’s just like being a peddler. You want two breasts? Well, here you are — two breasts. We must see to it that the man looking at the picture has at hand everything he needs to paint a nude. If you really give him everything he needs — and the best — he’ll put everything where it belongs, with his own eyes. Each person will make for himself the kind of nude he wants, with the nude that I will have made for him.” —Pablo Picasso
by Randy
on November 13, 2009
in Emotion, Nudes, People

16″ x 20″ Original Watercolor on handmade paper
“When dreaming, I’m guided through another world, time and time again. At sunrise I fight to stay asleep, ’cause I don’t want to leave the comfort of this place, ’cause there’s a hunger, a longing to escape, from the life I live when I’m awake.” —Creed
by Randy
on November 13, 2009
in Emotion, Nudes
16″ x 20″ Original Watercolor on handmade paper
“Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches” —St. Thomas Aquinas
by Randy
on November 13, 2009
in Emotion, Nudes, People
16″ x 20″ Original Watercolor on handmade paper
“Modesty; the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.“ —Oliver Herford
by Randy
on November 13, 2009
in Emotion, Nudes, People, Travel

16″ x 20″ Original Watercolor on handmade paper
“My life is like a stroll on the beach…as near to the edge as I can go.” —Thoreau
by Randy
on November 11, 2009
in Emotion, People
12″ x 16″ Original Watercolor on handmade paper Private Collection – O’More College of Design (Painted when I was artist-in-residence for O’More College of Design in 2010)
“The difference between style and fashion is quality.” —Giorgio Armani
by Randy
on November 10, 2009
in Emotion, People
12″ x 16″ Original Watercolor on handmade paper Not For Sale
“There are minutes and there are moments. Minutes are for waiting in line. Moments are for beauty.” —Randy Elrod
by Randy
on November 10, 2009
in Emotion, People, Travel
18″ x 24″ Original Watercolor on handmade paper
“The sensual city of Florence, Italy inspires artists yet today.” —Randy Elrod
by Randy
on November 10, 2009
in Emotion, Nature, People

18″ x 24″ Original Watercolor on handmade paper SOLD
A tribute to the most exacting of fisherman.
by Randy
on November 10, 2009
in Emotion, Nudes, People

16″ x 20″ Original Watercolor on handmade paper
“The nude is condemned to never being naked” – John Berger
by Randy
on November 10, 2009
in Emotion, People

18″ x 24″ Original Watercolor on handmade paper
“We dance round in a ring and suppose, while the secret sits in the middle and knows” —Robert Frost
by Randy
on November 10, 2009
in Emotion, Nudes
12″ x 16″ Original Watercolor on handmade paper
“It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution” —Oscar Wilde
by Randy
on November 10, 2009
in Emotion, Nudes, People

12″ x 16″ Original Watercolor on handmade paper SOLD
“I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. And The Gates of this Chapel were shut, And ‘Thou Shalt Not’ writ over the door…And Priests in black gowns were walking their rounds, And binding with briars my joys & desires.” —William Blake
by Randy
on May 18, 2009
in Emotion, Nudes, People, Travel

18″ x 22″ Original Watercolor on handmade paper
“Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.” —Michelangelo
by Randy
on May 18, 2009
in Emotion, People

12″ x 16″ Original Watercolor on handmade paper
“Beauty provides a sensual and spiritual threshold from cold darkness and despair to warm sunlight and delight.” —Randy Elrod
by Randy
on May 18, 2009
in Emotion, People

12″ x 16″ Original Watercolor on handmade paper
“The timeless in you is aware of life’s timelessness; and knows that yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream.” —Kahlil Gibran
by Randy
on May 18, 2009
in Emotion, People

12″ x 16″ Original Watercolor on handmade paper
“A work of art must not be something that leaves the viewer unmoved….something passed by with a casual glance. It has to make the viewer react, feel strongly, start creating too….if only in the imagination.” —Gustav Klimt