Swimmers

oil on zinc plate, 6" x 9"

Another fish study on metal, my favorite type of surface.

Green Dog

oil on aluminum panel, 12" x 12"

Just playing with color here, and abstract shapes.  Somehow, a dog insisted on making an appearance.  There you go!

Garden of Earthly Delights

oil on panel, 16" x 12"

This painting was inspired by the work of Flora Yukhnovich, a British painter who pushes disrupted realism to a new level.  After reading about her and pouring over her pieces, I felt like playing with paint and pushing the boundaries of realism myself.  It was fun and freeing, and I plan to do more of it!

Sunset with Palm Tree

acrylic on canvas paper, 12" x 12"

Here's another palm tree study.

Blue Heron at Ellis Creek

 

oil on panel, 8" x 6"

Ellis Creek in Petaluma has long been a favorite source of landscape painting inspiration for me, with its great variety of terrain, including marshes, ponds, grasses and distant hills, not to mention avian wildlife in the form of herons, egrets, swans, stilts, and many other winged species.  It's an ever changing ecosystem there and I never get tired of it.

White-necked Heron

oil on canvas, 12" x 6"

Another bird painting, a favorite subject of mine.