I painted these sherbet-colored roses at the San Jose Municipal Rose Garden. May roses always remind me that summer is on it’s way.
May Roses
6″ x 8″ oil on linen panel
Landscape
Fertile Valley
9″ x 12″ oil on panel
Sometimes it’s a vivid slash of green in the middle of a muddy field that signals the arrival of spring.
Merced River Yosemite
11″ x 14″ (private collection)
In this watercolor I am trying to catch vibration created by late afternoon light on the young cottonwood on the bank of the Merced River in Yosemite Valley.