Guard Ye Dreams Away Thy Sleepless Night

"Elvis couldn't leave the hotel except under heavy guard.
It was incredible how they went wild over him."
- Minnie Pearl

To The Briney Depths Ye Go

"Our ships were British oak, And hearts of oak our men."
- Samuel James Arnold

Fall Into Blue Sink Deep Lay Cold Softly

“Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon,
and the deeper it sinks into, the mind.”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Oh Belly Of Light Scream Forth Radiance

Here are a couple of quick gouache sketches.....
experimenting with a bit of light and color.

On Stillness We Stand Waiting In Silence

“How much of human life is lost in waiting.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow
because it was important to them:
there ought to be as many for love.”
- Margaret Atwood

Thy Coals Will Pass Ye Lonely In Flame

"Arson, after all, is an artificial crime...
A large number of houses deserve to be burnt."
- H. G. Wells

Chase Thee Not Unto Death Ye Swooneth

“I'm tired of chasing people.”
- Robert F. Kennedy

Fire Oh Burn The Evening Cometh Red

12.5" x 7.125" Acrylic on Illustration Board

“When I admire the wonder of a sunset or the beauty of the moon,my soul expands in worship of the Creator”
- Mahatma Gandhi

Stand Firm Golden With Vigor In Silence

This last weekend I was invited to the "Last Gasp", which is one last outdoor hooray before we are plunged into winter, and what seems like perpetual darkness. I was able to work up a quick sketch before the festivities began.

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“Space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind union of the two will preserve an independent reality”
- Albert Einstein

Though Space Silent Ye Move In Blackness

"If man survives for as long as the least successful of the dinosaurs—those creatures whom we often deride as nature's failures—then we may be certain of this: for all but a vanishingly brief instant near the dawn of history, the word 'ship' will mean— 'spaceship."
- Arthur C. Clarke

Away, Away Ye Blast At Last To Thee I Stay

“For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.”
- Lao Tzu

On Dreams Ye Pass In Blue Ye Sail To

"And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again."
- Thomas Moore

At Thy Base Ye Will Flow And Fall To Ruin

Take that, and that, and here's one for that too!

Slither Thy Silent With Sound No Light

Thinking a bit about Tarzan last night, and playing around with some new brushes. Now, where is that Numa.....I smell his stench.

Vigors Of Flame Crest Ye Thy Restless Basin

20" x 28" Watercolor/Gouache/Pastel/Acrylic on Rives BFK

Here is a new watercolor painting that I expanded from a smaller plein air sketch this summer on my hiking trip into the Scotchman Wilderness area. I will be entering this painting into the upcoming 42nd Yellowstone Art Musuem Annual Auction.

Plein Air Nightmare Gone Rocky

Oil on Rock

This afternoon I gathered up my paints, and headed out into wild blue yonder on this beautiful September day. I set up by the stream and was ready to paint......except I had forgot my panels! This is what is known as a plein air painter's nightmare. At this point I was much too far away to drive back and get them, so instead of letting myself get be overcome by anger, hate, malice, ill content and the like.....I improvised, with rocks.

Scotchman Peak Plein Air Paintout - Fall 09

Bull River
6" x 8" Oil on Masonite
SOLD

Johnson Marshes
8" x 10" Oil on Masonite
$350

Bull River Valley

11" x 14" Oil on Masonite
$425

River Road
6" x 8" Oil on Masonite
$285

Ross Creek Cedars
8" x 10" Oil on Rives BFK
$350

Ross Creek Pillars

9" x 12" Oil on Rives BFK
$375

Scotchman Valley
9" x 12" Oil on Rives BFK
SOLD

This weekend myself and around 20 other artists participated in the Scotchman Peak Fall Plein Air Paintout. The show was hosted at the Outskirts Gallery in Hope Idaho. Proceeds from the sales go to help benefit the Scotchman Peak wilderness area.

Weave Thy Forest Green In Tangled Blues

“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.”
- Robert Louis Stevenson