Some favorite paintings from the last year

"A Mother-Daughter Moment"

11x14" oil pastel on paper

"A Long, Hot Line"

5x7" oil pastel on paper

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"A Calm harbour"

5x7" oil pastel on paper

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"Pink Hat"

8x10" oil pastel on paper

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"Rose Bower"

8x9" oil pastel on paper

"The Aviator"

16x20" oil pastel on paper

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"Strolling thru Moreton"

8x10" oil pastel on paper

"Playtime"

8x10" oil paint on canvas

"Fountain Dancers"

10x20" oil paint on canvas

Introduction

This site is a way to share my paintings and my artistic journey.

I work predominantly in Oil Pastels, which is a largely unknown medium for painting. Oil Pastels are sticks of creamy, vibrant color. I had been working with oil paint in tubes for the last few years. No matter how hard I tried, I could not get the rich colors that I craved with oil paint. The harder I tried, the faster I seemed to mix colors into mud!

I have been working in Oil Pastels for almost a year. And have been doing so much more painting because I am so much happier with the outcome.

Last month I submitted three paintings to the First Annual Oil Pastel Society Show. The Oil Pastel Society, an international artist organization, put this show together. The show, containing 88 paintings from around the world, displays the great versatility of the oil pastel medium.

I was awarded an Honorable Mention for my entry entitled “Gazing out to Sea”.

The online art exhibit can be viewed at http://oilpastelsociety.com/2005Show/Beginnings2005.htm

The majority of my artwork is in Oil Pastels. However, I have started experimenting with both digital painting and digital manipulation.

Digital painting is painting on the computer using the screen as a blank canvas and the mouse as your brush.

"Woman at Beach" is a digital painting.

Digital manipulation alters and distorts a photograph to create the final image.

I see both of these digital ways of creating art as major art forms in the future. They are not replacements for traditional forms of paint and pencil. But I do see them taking a place along side of the traditional art media.