H Street Dancer 1

Acrylic. 16 x20. Based on a photograph by SRietzke.  First in a series of pieces from H Street Festival.

Moo Pillow

Machine appliqued and quilted pillow.  2011. Originally started as one of nine quilt squares for a baby quilt.  Too much work for me!  Now I remember why I don't sew very often.

H Street Drummer

Dry pastel on colored paper. 9/19/11.
Based on a photograph by Steve Rietzke.

Mother's Hand

Graphite on paper, 2011.  

Based on an original photograph.

Semper Fi

Oil on canvas, 2011.

Still life based on original photograph of my father's hat, gloves, and saber on my grandfather's flag.

Honor Drum

Oil on deerskin rawhide stretched on birch drum hoop.

Drum - 2006

Portrait -2011

In memory of Jonas Shawboose.

Letta

Acrylic on canvas

2011

Portrait of Letta Shawboose

Computer alterred watercolors

I started with a scan of an original watercolr, then played with the hue using Arcsoft Photoimression 6.  Great fun!  I printed the images on watercolor paper.  Voila! Giclee copies of a watercolor in 6 different hues!

   

 

Water droplets on Rose Hips

Prismacolor colored pencil drawing, 11" x 14", completed 2/9/2011





original digital photo from my backyard, no filters - natural stars



computer enhanced photo - color saturation, brightness, contrast adjusted

Red Dinghy

Watercolor (8.5 x 11") of a red dinghy, completed January 19, 2011.  After a photograph on Flickr.  I really like this one.

Cranes in Flight

Small (5" x 5") watercolor of cranes in flight completed in Jan, 2011.  After a magazine photo.

Wildflowers of PJ Hoffmaster 1, 2, 3

Small watercolors (approx. 5"x7") of wildflowers from my photographs taken at PJ Hoffmaster State Park in Muskegon, MI.  Completed January, 2011.  My original intention was to crop them to 4 x 6 and enter them in the Muskegon Museum of Art "Postcard Gallery" show and sale, but cropping them is a lot harder than I expected it would be; it feels a bit like cutting away part of my own flesh.