When I walked out the greenhouse early one April day I was greeting by this lovely little creature hiding in the lettuce.  Of course I know immediately I had to paint him, but finding a name was hard.  I asked on face book and received several very good suggestions.  I wrote back to everyone trying to use most of the names that had been suggested.

If you listen carefully you can hear the head gardener, Clora Phil singing , “It's Not Easy Being Green”, while waiting for a fly to come by. As I say, “ time flies when you're having fun”, but Clora says, “times fun when you’re having flies “.

Acrylic on 8 x 10 canvas

                        Time's Fun When You're Having Flies

                   Toward Better Times

         A friend helped me name this during the covid pandemic.

                           16 x 20 acrylic on canvas.  

 

Sunny Day in Langley Village 1, 2 & 3

This is where the new Artworks Gallery is located on Whidbey Island in the town of Langley. 

All 16 x 20 acrylic on canvas. All are also available in giclee prints and cards.

 

 

 Tree Frog 2 , has been added to the series, 

Small Wonders, things found in my yard.  He is happily sitting on a pot on the back porch

 Conflagration

16 x 20 acrylic on canvas

Watching all the fires this summer,  so sad, so many acres ruined.  Between climate change and man they just continue to get worse. 

Color Exploding Bouquet

Last week my friend Barbara came over to social distance on my back porch.  OK to drink some wine, but she brought me this huge beautiful bouquet of alstroemeria from her garden.  The colors were just unbelievably vilush and vivid.  I knew it needed to be painted, but I wanted to express the explosion of color that i was seeing and knew it couldn't be just realistic,  So again I tried to combine the world of realizme with abstraction.

Color Exploding Bouquet.
acrylic on 16 x 20 canvas.

In the Jungle

Still bored and playing with an old stencil I found and some interesting tissue paper.  Where else would you find leaves like these?

In the Jungle
acrylic collage and stencil on 11 x 14 canvas