Studio move...Earth, Fire, and Spirit Pottery

For the past 4 months my husband and I have been on a cross country move from Portland, Oregon all the way to Lexington, Virginia.  My sister Amber Poole of Earth, Fire, and Spirit Pottery has partnered up with Daniel Caruthers of Fire Trout Studio to create a ceramic super duo.  Stay tuned for new work and a complete show schedule.

The alphabet series is finished!

Working on publication...stay tuned.

AIG monsters.  they seem sweet enough...but what are their real intentions?

oil paintings, just quick little works...all in fun.  it's been a while since the oil paints have come out in the studio. creamy colorful deliciousness

through the tree tops

mixed media on watercolor paper.  ink,  watercolor, copic marker, and acrylic

practice practice practice

if you don't use it you loose it.  an old practice portrait (unfinished) done in crayola crayons...every artist's first favorite medium

winter tree skeletons

the skeletal nature of trees without their leaves.  their lines twisting and turning, back dropped by grey winter clouds, sunsets, and early morning lights.

firetrout.com...my other half.  the very talented daniel caruthers.

max nap

from the series based on sketches of people that fell asleep on the portland commuter trains.  secret sketching is a rush...sometimes people catch you in the act, and they get incredibly weirded out. understandable.  much easier to sketch people who are asleep.

if you were an animal...which would you be?

dad said i would be a river otter...little brother said a dung beetle. linoleum prints, subtractive drawing at it's best.

I've been this way

the "have been this way" series...some things change, and some stay the same.  sometimes the absence of color has an stronger impact.

sea turtle portraits

swimming with sea turtles...inspiring to say the least.

youth

"the surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently" -Nietzsche

the innocents of youth paintings...we were little girls once.

camping = painting

this little cottonwood beetle was crawling around the picnic table at our camp site.  he begged to be painted. i was obliged...in watercolor of course.

tiny tiles

these tiny tile paintings are little gems. they currently are in the form of fridge magnets, but wouldn't they be lovely necklaces? just the right size at one and a half inch by one and a half inch.  the paint brush used to create these little treasures is a hoot, it has about five hairs! the tiles are salvaged from the rebuilding center here in Portland, Or. leftovers sometimes make the perfect canvas

the alphabet series is nearly completed.  one painting left and two years of painting will be finished.  thinking of what will come next.   the abstract figurative drawings from 2005-6 are an intrigue, they seem to be begging to be pushed further. excited to see what i can come up with.