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Daisy in Vase

12″ x 16″ Original Watercolor on handmade paper

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My daughter made this vase and she loves Daisies, so I placed it on my back porch and painted it. Rich with meaning.

 

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Nile Overlook

12″ x 16″ Original Watercolor on handmade paper SOLD

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I snapped this photograph at Murchison Falls in Uganda overlooking the Nile River. The scene captured so much emotion and symbolism.

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Through Byron’s Eyes

12″ x 16″ Original Watercolor on handmade paper

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“There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.” —Lord Byron

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Naked Joy

Barren_and Naked_watercolor

12″ x 16″ Original Watercolor on handmade paper

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“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

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Longing

Extraordinary_Longing_Water

16″ x 20″ Original Watercolor on handmade paper

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“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

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The Rape Of The Church

Church_Rape16″ x 20″ Original Watercolor on handmade paper

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“Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches” —St. Thomas Aquinas

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Modesty

16″ x 20″ Original Watercolor on handmade paper

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“Modesty; the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.“ —Oliver Herford

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Beach Beauty

16″ x 20″ Original Watercolor on handmade paper

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“My life is like a stroll on the beach…as near to the edge as I can go.” —Thoreau

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Fashion Shoot

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)

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“The difference between style and fashion is quality.” —Giorgio Armani

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A Moment to Behold

 12″ x 16″ Original Watercolor on handmade paper Not For Sale

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“There are minutes and there are moments. Minutes are for waiting in line. Moments are for beauty.” —Randy Elrod

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Repose

18″ x 24″ Original Watercolor on handmade paper

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“The sensual city of Florence, Italy inspires artists yet today.” —Randy Elrod

 

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Flyin’

18″ x 24″ Original Watercolor on handmade paper SOLD

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A tribute to the most exacting of fisherman.

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Nude In Abstract


16″ x 20″ Original Watercolor on handmade paper

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“The nude is condemned to never being naked” – John Berger

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Secrets

18″ x 24″ Original Watercolor on handmade paper

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“We dance round in a ring and suppose, while the secret sits in the middle and knows” —Robert Frost

 

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Guilty Pleasures

12″ x 16″ Original Watercolor on handmade paper

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“It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution” —Oscar Wilde

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An Apple A Day

12″ x 16″ Original Watercolor on handmade paper SOLD

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“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

 

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Stop The Stoning of Sakineh

12″ x 16″ Original Watercolor on handmade paper

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This painting was created to do my small part in advocating for Sakineh in Iran.

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Discus Thrower

18″ x 22″ Original Watercolor on handmade paper

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“Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.” —Michelangelo

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Lady in Red

12″ x 16″ Original Watercolor on handmade paper

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“Beauty provides a sensual and spiritual threshold from cold darkness and despair to warm sunlight and delight.” —Randy Elrod

 

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Another Time

12″ x 16″ Original Watercolor on handmade paper

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“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

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Beauty

12″ x 16″ Original Watercolor on handmade paper

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“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

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