Pretty in purples and pinks

I love painting water.  It makes everything in my mind feel surreal.  Maybe it is the mirror image or the color. I do not know.  This is a water color painting on canvas.  I did not use the pencils because of the need to be more free with the colors.  Hope you like it.

Fall Flowers

I saw these flowers originally at  Mary Free Bed.  I really liked the arrangement.  So I painted it.  Again this is more of a fall looking painting.  Hope you like it.  It is a watercolor pencil painting on canvas.

Fall Flowers

This is some type of fall flower I painted from a picture a friend of mine took.  I really liked the colors and how it turned out.  I hope you enjoyed it.  Again, it is a water color on canvas picture.  The original picture was taken by, Emily Hansen.

Water Color Water Lilly

This water color water Lilly is a 16" x 20".  It looks pretty translucent to me.  I used no water color pencils on this work.  I did the technical work with a brush rather than the pencil.  Don't know if I like this or not.  Oh well you be the judge.  It feels strange not being in  Art Prize this year.  I like not having the stress but still am struggling a little with my inability to participate because of the stress.  Well I guess it is the way it is.

Changing Colors

Fall is on its way.  I am not real thrilled about this but I do like the colors.  This is a watercolor painting on canvas.  I like the red and orange leaves.  Hope you like this picture too.

David Warsen, Navy Seal

This is a watercolor painting of a young man who died in Afghanistan a couple of weeks ago in a helicopter crash. His name is David Warsen.  His funeral was yesterday.  I had decided to paint this picture for his parents a a momentum of my appreciation for their ultimate sacrifice.  I brought it to the funeral and left it with one of the ushers.  I hope they received it.  What a nice looking young man who gave his life so that we can live the way we do.  I hope my random act if kindness makes a difference.

Baseball Fan's

I have been going to our local Whitecaps games with my grandson lately.  We have had a great time so I decided to paint a few of the guys pictures.  This is Nick Avila a right handed picture for the Whitecaps.   He is number 20.  In the photo I got of him he has mustache and little goatee.  He pitched the night I took the picture but I did not have a real good shot of him.  The next time I saw him it was cut off.  Oh well this will have to do.  He looks like his cousin, C. Alex Avila the catcher of the Detroit Tigers.  I happened to talk to him at a game and he was asking about the pictures I had given to some of the other players.  He was so nice I decided to paint one of him.  He is a year older than his cousin.  He was very nice to talk to.

   This is a picture of Ernie Young the manager of the Whitecaps.  Every time I have photo-graft him he has a very stern face.  Ernie has been coaching the White Caps for two years now.  The Whitecaps are a farm team for the Detroit Tigers.  I have truly enjoyed to games this year.  Both of these watercolor paintings will be given to the people they represent,