Art Book Joint Effort Maura and Wil Bosbyshell

 The images below are from a joint effort between Maura and myself. She made the underlying prints. I added color or collaged the princess. She used washers, mesh, real flowers, string, etc. in the printing process. I added some stamps, watercolor paint and color pencil. I made them all in to an art book with quotes from our favorite song writers.

Most Recent Ancient Tree Drawing

I have really enjoyed working on this series. I changed the name from Old Pine to Ancient Trees so I can add oak trees to the series. The texture, bark irregularities are what is so interesting to me in this series. I use a real tree as a model, but I take liberties in leaving out branches in some cases.

McColl Center for the Arts Member Exhibition

One of my Weight Series of drawings is in the 2019 McColl Member show. Above is the fire painting I had displayed during the 2016 member show. The Show runs through January 2020.

Figure Sketches - Faces

I enjoy playing around with figures in my sketchbook. Here are a few recent ones. The smiling face above was very difficult, but it came out well.

Garden of the Gods painting Finished

I am very happy with many parts of this painting. The mid-ground with the sage green hills and the red rocks came out very well. The contrast in values and colors are both working to make the red rocks stand out. I added a lot of flowers to the foreground than were in the photo. It is a very active painting full of motion

Garden of the Gods Painting

Here is the painting with the reference photo and my glasses for a size comparison. 

 Step 1: I begin to put big areas of underlying color in the foreground and midground.

 Step 2: The second layer of more detail is added to the garden bed of plants and the rock formations.

Step 3: Another layer of color and details to the spruce tree and midground trees and bushes.

Step 4: The mountain range is masked and the sky put in. The sky is three layers of color.

Step 5: The sky is toned down some, more clouds added. Hard edges in the sky were removed. The mountain range is begun with two layers of green. 

Old Spruce Series: Drawing number 6

This is a graphite drawing 18 x 24 on paper. These drawings are about texture. This tree has an unusual spiral texture in the truck which was fascinating and fun the draw. 

Vicarious Exhibition Photos

The Vicarious Exhibition opening reception was very well attended! My Weight drawings were displayed in the center of the gallery, hung Japaneses scroll style with magnets. After my talk people gravitated to the center drawing saying it was positive and uplifting. 

I am Woman Exhibition of the Female Figure