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Abstract paintings celebrate the design and rhythms of the subject matter.
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Thoreau's Legacy - Thoreau's Legacy is a tribute to his thoughts and dreams on the protection of the wilderness. This painting is a composite of photographs taken while walking through Puerto Rico's lush rainforest.
Medium: watercolor
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Counterbalance - Counterbalance started with a solitary line on the paper. Next, the weight of color, texture and value had to be combined with the line to create balance throughout the painting.
Medium: watercolor
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Hats - Hats is a Giclée reproduction. Giclée is French for "the spraying of watercolor dyes onto watercolor paper". The original painting displayed at the Arts & Flowers Exhibition, de Saisset Museum, University of Santa Clara is in a private collection.
Medium: watercolor
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Palms - Palms started in a workshop where everyone had to put a brush mark onto everyone else's painting. From there you had to develop your own painting from this unusual start.
Medium: watercolor
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Borders - This is an illustration for a poem by Pat O'Neill about ivy on broken plates, a metaphor for broken promises.
Medium: watercolor
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Crazy Quilt - Crazy Quilt is a mixed media piece incorporating acrylic, watercolor and pastel. Layers of color and line move your eye around the painting.
Medium: acrylic, watercolor, pastel
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Hillside Images - Hillside Images is included in Bridging Time & Space, Essays on Layered Art and exhibited at the Louisiana Watercolor Society's International Exhibit. Rhythms of movement are seen in the early washes. An interplay of positive and negative shapes create the scene.
Medium: watercolor
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Beach Bums - Beach Bums originated from sketches made at the beach in Ocean City, N.J. This painting was selected by the National Watercolor Society to appear in their 1998 Annual Exhibition.
Medium: watercolor
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