Watercolor collage became my medium of choice for carrying a sketchbook image further, to a larger, freestanding work.
  • Detail, Chasing the Goose
    Detail, Chasing the Goose
    Watercolor collage, 9"x10", illustration for unpublished children's book The Old Couple, 2003.
  • Detail, Jove and Mercury Survey the Earth
    Detail, Jove and Mercury Survey the Earth
    Watercolor collage, 9"x20", illustration for unpublished children's book The Old Couple, 2003.
  • Detail, Novena for a Passage through Darkness
    Detail, Novena for a Passage through Darkness
    Painted watercolor paper and Asian paper with mica inclusions, panel 9" square.
  • Novena for a Passage through Darkness
    Novena for a Passage through Darkness
    Nine-panel watercolor collage on illustration board, 18" square, 2011. Now in private collection, Baltimore, MD. Mountain ridge line forms developed from sketchbooks 1992-2010. A dark period in one's life has its own light and color.
  • Sandia: House Made of Dawn, Summer (detail)
    Sandia: House Made of Dawn, Summer (detail)
    Mountainside, cottonwood forest, grassland, noon, summer. Painted watercolor paper, cut and torn.
  • Sandia: Intermediate drawing, 4th panel, detail
    Sandia: Intermediate drawing, 4th panel, detail
    Charcoal on paper, 4'x3', 2007
  • Sandia Mountain, sketch, 2005
    Sandia Mountain, sketch, 2005
    Watercolor on paper, 9x24"
  • Sandia, House Made of Dawn (detail)
    Sandia, House Made of Dawn (detail)
    Panels 3&4, Fall and Winter, each 4'x3', from watercolor collage, 2007, complete work 12'x4'.
  • Sandia, House Made of Dawn (detail)
    Sandia, House Made of Dawn (detail)
    Panels 1&2, each 4'x3', Spring and Summer, from four-panel watercolor collage on shaped canvas, 2007, 12'x4' complete.
  • The Old Couple: Winter
    The Old Couple: Winter
    Watercolor collage on paper, 30" diameter, 2005. Now in the permanent collection of Goucher College, Towson, MD.
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