Yellow Taxi

The yellow taxi and colorful city street were the focus.  This was also an experiment with reflections, lost and found edges and a narrow, vertical format.

Deer Visitors

This painting began as an abstract design with sumi ink on damp crinkled masa paper.   The hills and mountains emerged as colors were added.  The deer just seemed to fit in at the end.  This is another painting based on memories of Yosemite.  20" x 27"

Foliage and Flora

This painting, done using the Crinkle Technique, was based on memories of Yosemite Falls.  Our family has gone to Yosemite at least once or twice a year over the past 25 years or so.  From many different viewpoints in the Valley the majestic Falls can be seen through the foliage.  18-1/2" x 20".

Mount Diablo in January

The Jade Fon Plein Air Painters usually paint near my home in Walnut Creek in January.  This painting was done then and is now on exhibit at the Valley Art Gallery.  10" by 14"

Northgate Valley Below Mt. Diablo

13.5" by 21.5"  This is a beautiful place, with its gentle rolling hills below such a majestic mountain. Many people rode by on horseback the day our painting group was there in March.

Asleep

This is a portrait of my youngest granddaughter.  10" x 14" 

Warm Thoughts

My granddaughter had been a flower girl in her cousin's wedding and sat down to rest outside in the chilly air when her Dad came and wrapped his coat around her.  10" x 16.5"

Francesca

This is a portrait of my Italian language teacher at Acalanes.  14" x 10".  I think it captures her lively personality.  I also think I should have made my signature much much smaller.

Cliff House at Point Sutro, San Francisco

This is a plein air painting of the famous Cliff House in San Francisco.  Just a few steps to the right (and not pictured) lie the ruins of the Sutro Baths, an extravagant public bathhouse which opened in 1896; and a few steps beyond the ruins, nature has placed a huge rock--just perfect for a plein air painter.  9"x 13"