Wander and Paint

Making the Invisible Visible: Blissfully Serene

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Making the Invisible Visible: Blissfully Serene

Guatemala, Antigua- An interpretation of luscious Latin American colors.  Discovering ways to make the invisible visible has almost become an obsession -especially when I travel. It's always tempting to try to unveil the magic hidden in the world.  Some magical things, however, resist any sort of poking. Color washes in a lot of my watercolors illustrate this effect. I never know what I'm going to get until the very end of a painting session. In the case of Antigua in Blue, I was lucky, and I guess discerning enough, to leave the  painting alone at the rest time. Prints of...

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Destination Diaries: Garden of Good and Evil - Bourbon Street, New Orleans, USA

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Destination Diaries: Garden of Good and Evil - Bourbon Street, New Orleans, USA

The second piece in the New Orleans series, "sees me walking down the alleys and corridors of Bourbon Street. On such a journey, one is bound to stumble upon vistas that feed overactive imaginations...

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Everyday Life #6 Fermented Radish

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Everyday Life #6  Fermented Radish

[...]Between research, ideation, material and final rendering, the entire creative process took seven active hours to complete over two days....

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Carthagena Blues

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Carthagena Blues

[...] When I travel, instead of trying to hit all the tourist places and looking at the big picture, I end up ditching the crowds...

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Rainy Day Arrival in Tokyo Art Journal Page

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Rainy Day Arrival in Tokyo Art Journal Page

A visual stroll during the night I arrived in Japan. It rained softly and then like cats and dogs. Cold temps chilled me to the bone...

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