Sometimes time away from a project is just what is needed

I photographed this Beverly Street scene years ago. Drew this poster essentially in 2020? but it needed something I could not name or identify. Perhaps our recent visit to the Met and seeing a Stuart Davis helped this get to where it needed to be? A bit bolder with color, less literal, a bit sunnier, a bit funner?

We planted dozens of trees this year

with the drought it is yet to be seen how many make it though plenty of the natives (locust especially) look to be thriving.

This photo shows random autumn beauties, the fruits of dogwood, magnolia, pecan, persimmon and some sort of olive, the branch with the tiny blue gray berries

Thank you Alexandria

And all the folks who work so hard to make Art on the Avenue the blast that it is, year after year. And make it a wonderful community. As usual, I am ready to move there - maybe an apartment in nearby Crystal City?

Art on the Avenue

This fun street fair in Alexandria, VA is tomorrow! In fact we came back from South America for this so the weather better be nice! See you soon!

Back in the USA

Think we’ve still got the stars over the Andes twinkling on our eyes. The last few days of travel are catching up to me, will get back to everyone tomorrow or the next day? And wow Virginia is a beautiful place to come home to. We say that every time, I know, but wow lovely.

Travel time

Orders can be filled until July 9. After that date orders will be taken but may not be filled until late September. Have a great summer.

Virginia river valley

This view from Shenandoah River State Park, where we vacationed a few years ago, is hard to beat

another drawing

Watercolor and pencil, small (5x7”?). Made this several years ago.

Renovation

As an artist, I am a landscape painter and a designer. And drawer. Not a figurative artist, not decorative. My posters are usually in one of these categories and also usually both. The Humpback Rocks poster has changed four times over the years from originally a design/commercial art style to this one which is a landscape painting done as a poster.

Drawing in the Old Masters style

Part of an artist’s education. I did this quite a while ago, cannot remember when.

Bright!

Maybe because it is spring and the bright yellow daffodils are blooming, or maybe because we are just returned from Mexico, dunno, but this one happened real quick and real bright

More appreciation for other artists, illustrators, designers -

They are consistently excellent, even breathtaking

Celebrating Bowie

On this anniversary of his death (so gloriously explored in his last music/artwork ‘Black Star’) so many of us celebrate the omnivorous wildly creative David Bowie. He made life so much more glamorous, weird, wondrous, flaming.

The Public Domain Review: a Solar System quilt from around 1870s

Humans are glorious. Check out this trove of wonder and inspiration, copyright-free

Sharing the work of other artists, this time the brilliant Rebecca Solnit

Find her here and read all her words

ie humans are amazing and unbeatable when we work together purposefully and for each other