Today I sliced an old background painting into six 4″x4″ squares, and decided to paint chickens. Chickens, in order to keep me safe from the legions of dedicated Gallus gallus domesticus fans who were (and still are) stiffly dissatisfied with my failure to include the chicken in my Ducks on the Roa…
This Io moth, and the milkweed he is resting on, was a pleasure to paint. There are not a lot of underlayers showing, but I still like it. Io moth in moonlight acrylic painting on watercolor paper Acrylics, aquarelles, & collage papers on 15″x22″ (half sheet) watercolor paper PS: You can see the …
A week or so ago I was hiking out on Elk Knob and happened to see a shelf fungus growing in the shape of a rose on an old stick. Fungus rose at Elk Knob Even more lovely was this unexpected colony of Astraeus hygrometricus, or hygroscopic (water-absorbing) earthstars. They are easiest to find aft…
This layered view is such a familiar sight here, and I wanted to capture it in some way. This may be my favorite acrylic collage piece I’ve made so far. This painting has phrases of my poem “Call the Mountain” (from the book Appalachian Ground) written into the layers, in addition to other poems as…
