An Art Show to celebration life

Here I am with my family who came out to support me

In March, I opened my first art show since going through treatments for breast cancer.  My doctors and I fought hard and we won this cancer. So I wanted to celebrate. Judith Hall was my mentor for my printmaking.  She passed away in January 2014 so I wanted to celebrate her life. The Show was titled "My Mentor and Me" It was a huge success. Thanks to everyone who came out to help us to celebrate.

Here are a couple of monotypes and etching that sold during the show.



Here is one of my small etching of the horse I shared my life with for many years ago. It is called Freedom because Pepsi and I found our freedom together.

This is a vertical piece sorry it won't turn around oh well. It is titled Chipping Away. It was to honor our Woodbine Great Backyard Count. The Chipping Sparrows help the children discover birds. 

This Black and White and Red all over.  It is a Downy woodpecker I watched at Harris Neck National Wildlife Refuge.

This is Windsails.  There are only a few left of this edition. 

Now it is time to get back to the studio.

Small Yard Bird Etchings

Here are a few of my small yard bird etchings. See what you think. This one is titled "Humming Along" It has an embossed border. It measures 6" x 8"These etchings are printed on 100% rag paper. I created the image on a zinc plate. Then I ink this zinc plate and wiping off the excess ink. Then the plate is put on my French tool press and pulled through.

Here is Spangles measuring 2 1/2" x 8"

and Cardinal Time measuring 4"x6"

Time to be Born 3"x4" &

Waiting for Mom, 2"x3'
American Redstart, image area 5"x7", You Rang image area , Common Yellowthroat COYE 5"x7"

Pine Warbler image 5"x7" Yellow-throated Warbler image 5"x7.





I hope you enjoy the images as much as I enjoyed creating them.

Sketching project continues

We have had a lot of duck right off Jekyll. Here is one of my sketches.

Yesterday I watched several Clapper Rails at the Jekyll Island Visitor Information Tower. Here a quick sketch.

Here is one more I worked on November 24.

Yellowthroat in the weeds

Sat down and did a little drawing today. This was a piece from the last studio session. Common Yellowthroats tend to blend into their surrounding. When I saw these plants I was intrigued by how wispy they were in the fields. There is always one or two Common Yellowthroats flitting around them in migration.

Great show inspires new art

I belong to a great group of creative artists. Last weekend our group, Georgia Coastal Artists, held our fall show at Glynn Art Association on St. Simons Island. It is a very quiet time of year but still a few people came to look and buy. Today, Ella Cart brought a painting to work on while sitting with her work. She invited me to get some paper and join her. Well, I looked in the van and found paper. What was I going to draw? I always have a sketch book so I took one of the sketches a Yellow-crowned Night-Heron. I started but I needed some native plants, so I walked around the building. Low and behold, there was beautiful fall red Virginia Creeper and palmetto. Here is what came out of the afternoon. Thanks Ella that was fun.

Art show November 12 & 13 on St. Simons Island Georgia

It is time to show off what I been working on lately. Drop by Glynn Art Association for our Georgia Coastal Artists Show and Sale. Glynn Art is in the village near the lighthouse on St. Simons Island, Georgia.