Sunday, October 29, 2017

Santa Rosa Books for Sale

I just finished a series of 25 local Santa Rosa pen & inks a couple of weeks ago, and the entire series was at the printers getting printed when Santa Rosa Firestorm occurred. All of the original pen & inks were destroyed in my house, but the digital images live on and the books are in print. My thought with the book was that it could be a collection of pen & inks to enjoy, or it could even be colored in. That's why the front cover is designed that way--for the person who buys the books to color in the words "Santa Rosa, CA, Est. 1868." I am selling the books for $32 if you pick it up from me, giving a portion to Redwood Credit Union for the fire victims account. The cost is $5 more for shipping, so $37 if you would like the book mailed to you. It is printed on heavy cardstock and spiral bound. Since I am a victim of the fire and things are so crazy, please be patient with my getting them to you. The money I make will pay for the printing as well as help me rebuild my art supplies and studio, all of which were lost in the fire. Payment is to my PayPal account at rb1993@sbcglobal.net. Write a message to me there when you pay, and how you would like to receive the book/books (pick up or mail, and your address if you would like it mailed). My greatest hope is that these images would be enjoyed. Over 170 hours of my time went into them. The image list and what they look like are below. The second page is the Round Barn, which burned down. Special thanks to Roger, who started the whole thing. It was his idea, and he was engraving these images into tiles (he also lost his home). Feel free to pass this along to others.

Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Fire

In the recent fire in Santa Rosa, my house, studio, and countless original paintings, sketches, sculptures, all of my original paintings of my children as well as numerous other paintings (and recent acquisitions from my father, things he had painted, things I had painted for him) burned.  Some of my art has been catalogued here on my art blog.  If you look here, you can see it once more.  But so much is gone, including all my art supplies.  Please pray for me.





Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Black and White Pen and Inks of Santa Rosa, CA

I now have 25 images (and I think I'm done for now!) of Santa Rosa, CA as cards and prints.  This is the list:
Round Barn
Railroad Square Clock
Empire Building
Julliard Park Bridge
Church of the Incarnation
Franklin Gate at SR Rural Cemetery
Hotel La Rose
La Gare French Restaurant
Santa Rosa High School
Santa Rosa JC Legion Gate
Sonoma County Museum
Visitor Center Downtown
Train Depot at Railroad Square
Richards Monument at SR Rural Cemetery
Grace Grave at SR Rural Cemetery
GAR Monument at SR Rural Cemetery
Redwood Empire Ice Arena
Luther Burbank Home
Luther B. Greenhouse, Home, and Garden
Church of One Tree
McDonald Mansion
Saturday Afternoon Club
Carrillo Adobe Sign
SR Creek Bridge at Prince Gateway Park
West Santa Rosa Landscape

I also have a spiral bound book of all of the images printed on heavy paper (so it can be a high end coloring book or just a book of Santa Rosa images in pen and ink).  These are $25.

Cards are $3.50 each or 6 for $20.

Prints are 9x12 at $35 without a mat, and $48 with.

Round Barn
Railroad Square Clock
Carrillo Adobe Sign
Church of One Tree
Church of the Incarnation
Empire Building
GAR Monument at SR Rural Cemetery
Grace Grave at SR Rural Cemetery
 Hotel La Rose
 Julliard Park Bridge
 La Gare French Restaurant
Luther Burbank Greenhouse, Home, and Garden
  Luther Burbank Home
 McDonald Mansion, "Mableton"
 Redwood Empire Ice Arena
 Richards Monument at SR Rural Cemetery
 Franklin Gate at SR Rural Cemetery
 SR Creek Bridge at Prince Gateway Park
 Santa Rosa High School
 Santa Rosa JC Legion Gate
 Saturday Afternoon Club
 Sonoma County Museum
 Train Depot at Railroad Square
 Visitor Center Downtown Railroad Square
 West Santa Rosa Landscape

Monday, October 2, 2017

To the Harvest Fair

This is one that I kept working on after my initial plain air work.  It felt frustrating as the vineyard was fairly parched, and I couldn't get the colors right.  I finally ended up adding green in the foreground in order to make the red pop.  I painted on West Side Road in Dry Creek Valley.


Thursday, September 21, 2017

Sketches

These sweet sisters were a recent commission.


 This is one of my babies' hands.

Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Spent a few days at Clear Lake and this was our view.  Acrylic on canvas.

 Trying to work on simple children on beach paintings.  Acrylic on canvas.

 Watercolor sketch on paper

  Watercolor sketch on paper

Friday, March 24, 2017

Winter watercolor

I enjoyed some time in a snow cabin doing this watercolor sketch.  So fun with beautiful snow.

Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Local pen & ink series

These pen and inks are available as 11x14 matted prints as well as blank greeting cards.











Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Albert Anker is a favorite painter of mine.  He summed up his approach to art as follows:
"One has to shape an ideal in one's imagination, and then one has to make that ideal accessible to the people."

Wednesday, January 25, 2017