A painting I completed. Let me know what you think when you see it? How does it make you feel?

“Night Owl” is a 5×7 entry for “Gems of the Shuswap” at the Salmon Arm Art Gallery beginning on August 4th. Painting so small has been an interesting challenge. It has inspired a whole new direction of creativity using various mediums.

I think it’s valuable in any creative endeavor, writing, painting, music etc to challenge […]

The Dragon Dance is one of a series of acrylic paintings. Dragonflies are zipping about their business among the reeds and grasses. The wings are collaged. 

Pudge is a bear who enjoys raiding the garden of my daughter and son-in-law. The apples, high up in the tree, are his favorite. He can be found day or night comfortably munching, paying little or no attention to the resident humans. 

The turtles of McGuire Lake claim their spots on a few logs floating among the lilies. I’ve seen as many as twenty-five on one log, all facing the same direction. When a large turtle climbs aboard, the log shifts and all the turtles compensate in unison to balance their perch. This painting is acrylic.

The light bounced off these tulips on an incredible spring day. Colored pencil