Mother tree

I live in the woods. I am surrounded by these beautiful life givers, the trees. I breathe the oxygen filled air and am thankful for the miracle of photosynthesis. It is so easy to forget the dependence that exists between trees and ability to breathe and live. Humanity has complex relationship to the tree. We take; and what do we give in return? What is my awareness of the beautiful interrelationship that exists in life? This is another recent watercolor from November 2011. The Mother tree continues to gift and bless, nurturing us all.

Growth in all directions

This is one of my new watercolors, completed in October 2011. I experimented with pouring watercolor in couple of layers and then bombay ink, which I let dry under saran wrap. After a good drying period, I started to focus on to the image. I used Prismacolor colored pencils and gouache to detail the image. It reminded me of flowers and of growth in general continually recycling itself. I call this painting "Growth in all directions."

Life is a lovemaking between Heaven and Earth

I painted this watercolor in 2008. At that time, I had been contemplating the nature of life. Through the process of painting this, the answer emerged: Life is a lovemaking between Heaven and Earth. And that became the title of this painting.

I started the painting by pouring watercolors onto a wet paper, letting it take its basic shapes and repeating the transparent pours couple of times, after each layer was dried. Then I began to lay washes with a brush to flesh out the shapes. When the "story" of this painting began to emerge, I switched to gouaches and began the detailing of the image with dots and lines. I love the meditative aspect of detailing.