Small Not Tall Palm

A small palm tree near a small casa. Perfect for a sketch. It's 5x7" pen and ink with watercolour.

My wife and I are living in the Dominican with some friends for the next 6 months. We plan to learn Spanish and enjoy their culture. Went to a baseball game the other night, it was great fun but loud, the home team won. We also attend a local Pentecostal church when we can, its even louder. They say the Dominican is the second loudest country in the world.

Check out our new Dominican blog. It is called Mission Improbable and can be reached through Splash and Paint.

Calla's Together

Flowers for my other daughter Angela Hernandez who along with her husband Victor recently moved into their own apartment
They met and married in the Dominican 2 years ago. Victor seems like the perfect match for her, as a matter of fact they even have similar features. What's up with that!
These are Calla Lilies painted in watercolour.

Yellow Bearded Iris

A nice flower that also makes a nice painting. I added the bud from another picture and I think it compliments and makes the painting more interesting. This painting is a watercolour and is painted on Arches water colour board, a relatively new offering from Arches. It is watercolour paper with a type of matt board backing. The size is 16 by 20 and doesn't need to be stretched.

Iris: 8x 10

I've been working on changing, not so much the way I paint but what I paint.

My wife nagged me for years to paint flowers so to prove that I do listen from time to time here is an Iris on water colour paper using watercolour, acrylic gouache and gold and copper metal leaf. I'm fairly satisfied with this one.

The Richness of Nature

Something new and out of the ordinary. This watercolour is 5 x 7" and the background is gilded with metal that is made from a silver colour and a gold colour, it is not precious metal but silver-made of aluminum and a variety of gold coloured metals-although it doesn't show on this scan the metal also has blue and copper colours in it as well. It was painted on a piece 200# Fabriano watercolour paper. The metal is glued to the paper. And although I don't normally leave the pencil marks on a painting, I like the look of this one. One thing, it takes a lot of patience and care to work with this metal because it is extremely fragile.

Iris 2

Another attempt of mixed media watercolour, acrylic Gouache and Metal leaf. The drawing is somewhat exaggerated I'll probably redo it or one like it. It has possibilities.

Early Spring

A site that was crying to be painted. Painted with watercolour during a moderate winter, I thought it was a nice barn worth remembering. It's gone now, replaced by rows and rows and rows of new houses that all look the same. Most people who live there now will never know or imagine what was there before them. Well this is what you replaced but then nothing lasts forever and at some point the homes you live in will also be replaced.