Homage to Frank

Homage to Frank

I have this stained glass panel at my studio, on the door.  I bought it at the Frank Lloyd Wright home, studio and book store in Oak Park, Illinois back when we lived in Chicago.  

It's a panel replica of a series of panels in one of his dining room window designs.  I did this in acrylic paint and oil pastel pencil stick.  It's on 12 x 12 x 2 stretched canvas kinda sketchy and the lines aren't straight, but it's what I wanted to do.  It's fun doing what you want to do.  Boy, that red really pops!  

I'm going to submit it to our Parklane Gallery "around the block" show coming up in October when I get back from Kansas.

It's always an adventure...

Kansas Cotton

Kansas Cotton

When I was a kid the sheer size and majesty of the clouds over the prairie made me just stop in my tracks sometimes.  I wanted to capture that feeling of how absolutely enormous the clouds could be.  I painted this from that memory.  Somewhere north of Salina, Kansas.   The green is the rich, spring color of the winter wheat coming up.

This 12 x 12 will be at the 'Around the Block' show this October at Parklane Gallery.

It's always an adventure...

Sarlat Market

Sarlat Market

This is another view and study of life at the market in Sarlat, France.  Trying to capture the sense of being there and walking into the painting.  The sun was extraordinarily bright that day and I wanted to get a sense of it.  I'm not that tall, I was standing on a step.

It's always an adventure...