These two watercolor paintings of flowers were created in 1997. The artworks utilize soft pink backgrounds, and deeper rich colors for the flowers and green leaves and stems. Numerous shades of red, orange, yellow, and green were used to create shadows, midtones, and highlights on the flower petals and leaves. This technique also gives the stems and leaves shape and form in the space. The use of watercolor as the medium for the flower paintings also gives them a softer look than crisp acrylics or oils.

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These seashell paintings were created with watercolor in 1996. Each artwork was created with a variety of colors and washes. The first painting utilizes a muted background and textured watercolor on the shells. The second seashell painting incorporates the white of the paper for highlights and the background. The third piece of watercolor art uses alternating vibrant and muted colors, textures, and other techniques to form 3 unique seashells with a sunlit background. Allowing the watercolor to flow freely around the paper adds unique and interesting shapes and patterns to each artwork.

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These 2 motorcycle drawings and paintings were created in 2007 with a mix of watercolor, markers, paint pens, crayon, colored pencils, and acrylic paint. A silver paint pen was used to create the chrome, but the reflective qualities of the art could not be accurately reproduced in digital format. Equal attention to color and line was given to both the motorcycles and their backgrounds, in order to increase the intensity of each drawing.

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The recent posts on the Art Blog about skull drawings and paintings have been more frequent. Here is another skull drawing with high contrast and very few marks. The image is more suggestive of form, using large blocks of black color to define the shape of the skull.

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This an acrylic painting of a skull with red, green, blue, and black paint. The skull drawing came first, and then the background, both of which are done in a slightly impressionistic style. The paint seemingly swirls around the face of the skull.

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