Ask Me In Spanish

December 3, 2009

Watercolor 7 x 10''

Madonna of the Fingernail Moon

November 22, 2009

Watercolor & ink, 7 x 10''

"Time Has Told Me"

listening to Elton John sing Nick Drake

November 10-17, 2009

Watercolor & ink, 5.5 x 7.5''

A Square Inch of Calme & Luxe

Watercolor, 1.5 x 2''

Beauty in the Mind

September 19, 2009, Watercolor 5.5x7.5''

Beauty is momentary in the mind--

The fitful tracing of a portal;

But in the flesh it is immortal.

from "Peter Quince at the Clavier," Wallace Stevens

Experiment on Hot Press Paper

October 26-27, 2009

Watercolor & ink, 7 x 10''

Rough Day at the Beach

October 2-3, 2009

Watercolor, 5.5 x 7.5''

Setting for Three Wishes

September 17, 2009

Watercolor, 5.5 x 7.5''

Cherokee Roses, September

October 27-29, 2009

Watercolor, 6 x 6.75''

Minuet in the Sawgrass

September 9-11, 2009

Watercolor & ink, 7 x 10''

Notes for My Symphony

August 27, 2009

Watercolor & ink, 5 x 6.75''

Quietest Hour

June 28, 2009

Watercolor, 5.5 x 6''

Equinox Meditation in Two Parts

September 22-24, 2009

Watercolor, 11 x 15''

One-Hour Doodle

September 11, 2009

Watercolor, 5.5x7.5''

Window, for Robert

August 7, 2009

Watercolor, 4 x 5.5''

Stony Morning

July 11, 2009

Watercolor, 5.5 x 7.5''

Open Sky, for Anna

August 30, 2009

Watercolor & ink, 7 x 10''

Open Sky, for Anna
September 6-7, 2009
Pencil & rapidograph on parchment paper, 6.25 x 8.25

Loaf and Invite

July 3, 2009

Watercolor & ink, 5.5 x 7.5''

White Noise of August

August 6, 2009

Watercolor, 7 x10''

Free to Leave

August 7, 2009

Watercolor, 5.5 x 7.5''

Waiting Week

August 6-7, 2009

Watercolor 5.5 x 7.5''

How Messages Arrive

July 29-30, 2009

Watercolor, ink & pencil, 5.5x7.5''

Goes from Dream to Dream

July 12, 2009

Watercolor, 5.5 x 7.5''

Your Sky, for Judy Jackson

The world stands out on either side

No wider than the heart is wide;

Above the world is stretched the sky,

No higher than the soul is high.

The heart can push the sea and land

Farther away on either hand;

The soul can split the sky in two,

And let the face of God shine through.

from "Renascence," by Edna St.Vincent Millay

Madonna of My Books (Reading Makes You Pregnant)

August 20, 2009

Watercolor & ink, 5.5x7.5''

Memoirs of the Madonna

August 23, 2009

Watercolor 5.5x7.5''

In-between Drawing

September 2004

Watercolor, 7 x 10 ''

Breathe with Me

Watercolor, 7 x 10''

And Breathe with Me

Watercolor, 7 x10''

Morning Nocturne

June 17, 2009

Watercolor, 7 x 10''

Requiem

June 11-13, 2009

Watercolor 7 x 10''

June 18, 2009

Watercolor, 7 x 10''

On the Solstice

June 21 & 28, 2009

Watercolor, 7 x 10''

Red Rush

July 2, 2009

Watercolor, 7 x 10''

Landscape for Larry

June 3-4, 2009

Watercolor 7x10''

Royal Road

May 16, 2009

Painted as double watercolor, 7x10''

Madonna of My Afro

Watercolor 5x7''

Shine in This Confusion

Watercolor, 5x7''

Madonna of my Afro, shine in this confusion !

May 11-14, 2009

painted as a double watercolor, 7x10''

Madonna of the Horizon

December 13, 2008, Watercolor, 5.5 x 7.5''

Madonna Tree

January 22, 2009, Watercolor 5.5 x7.5''

Blue Daphne

February 17 & 18, 2009

Watercolor, 5.5x7.5''

Madonna in Jerome

February 8, 2009, Watercolor 5.5x7.5''

Madonna on the World

February 21, 2009

Watercolor 5.5x7.5''

Maestro

Watercolor & ink, 5.5x7.5''

March 6, 2009

Maestro, 1st version
March 1, 2009
Watercolor, 5.5 x 7.5''

Even Rocks and Stones

April 13-15, 2009

Watercolor & ink, 5.5x7.5''

''Seas Incarnadine''
phrase in my mind today
May 6, 2009
Watercolor, 7x10''

Will all great Neptunes's ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand ? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
Making the green one red.
-Macbeth

Susan's Painting in My Dream

vivid dream image

May 8, 2009, Watercolor 7 x 10''

sold

In Our Dream

May 6, 2009

Watercolor, 7x10''

Motel Stillness in Nashville

April 29, 2009

Watercolor, 7x10''

Three Breaths Over the River

April 30, 2009

Watercolor, 7x10''

The flood plain of the Tennessee is full of sun and shallow lakes,

and yellow weeds have spread across the top; the waters move

in blue and yellow zigzags to the horizon, breathe it, breathe it,

all breath, all waste for love.

Light in the Water

December 6, 2008, Watercolor & ink, 5.5 x 7.5''

Poem Rising in the Pond

December 1, 2008

Watercolor & ink, 5.5 x 7.5''

In Good Air

October 9, 2008, Watercolor, 5.5x7.5''

Swimming in Air

October 26 & 28, 2008, Watercolor, 5.5x7.5''

Materials for a Rocky Garland

October 7, 2008, Watercolor & ink, 5.5 x 7.5''

They say Ruby you're like a dream / Not always what you seem

Watercolor & ink, 5x7''

Swimming Manuscript

Watercolor and inks, 5x7''

Blot Out the Sun

Watercolor, 5x7''

New Year's Sky Piece

January 1, 2009, wc, 5.5x7.5''

Harp and the Moon

Watercolor, 5x7''

Quiet Places

Watercolor & ink, 5 x7''

While You Practice Scales on the Viola

Watercolor & ink, 5x7''

sold

In 500 Words or Less

Watercolor, 5x7''

sold

Real Thing is Whiter

April 17 & 25, 2009

Watercolor, 7x10''

Waiting for the Concert

Watercolor, 5x7''

Notations for a String Duet

Watercolor & ink, 5x7''

sold

River Manuscript

Watercolor collage, 11x14'' (edges cut off in this scan)

River Manuscript, left side

Document

Watercolor collage, 5 x 7''

sold

Quatrain

Watercolor, 5x7''

sold

Solstice

Watercolor collage, 5 x 7''

sold

On Five Mornings

Watercolor, 5.5x7.5''

On Three Mornings, unfinished version

Watercolor, 5.5x7.5''

On Three Mornings, finished version

Watercolor collage, 5.5x7.5''

For Healing

April 9, 2009

Watercolor, 5.5 x 7.5''

The Underground Sky

April 19, 2009

Watercolor, 7x10''

Remembering

WC collage with jonquil petals, French knots in silk, pencil lines, brown & black inks, 5.5x7.5''

February 26 & 28, 2009

''Remembering'' collage in progress

Dark Till You Come

April 11, 2009

Watercolor, 7x10''

Earth Forces

January 4, 2009, Watercolor, 5.5 x 7.5''

Earth Forces #2

January 4, 2009, Watercolor, 5.5 x 7.5''

Earth Forces #3

January 4, 2009, Watercolor, 5.5 x 7.5''

Gentle Forces

October 7, 2008, Watercolor, 5.5x7.5''

Morning

February 1 & 2, 2009,

Watercolor 5.5x7.5''

For Robert

February 3, 2009

Watercolor, 5.5x7.5''

Leave before Daylight

April 5, 2009

Watercolor, 5.5x7.5''

New Day Coming

January 14, 2009, Watercolor, 5.5 x 7.5''

Please Bring Money

January 17, 2009, Watercolor & gold paint, 5.5 x 7.5''

My House through Trees
January 2, 2009, Watercolor, 5.25 x 7.25''

The First Half Hour

Xmas morning, 2008

Watercolor, 5.5 x 7.5''

In Sarastro's Realm, watercolor meditation for Bill Transue
December 23, 2008

Within these sacred portals revenge is unknown,

and if a man has fallen, love guides him to his duty.

Then, with a friend's hand, he walks, glad and joyful, into a better land.

--''In diesan heil'gen Hallen,"' Sarastro in ''The Magic Flute''

To Me It's Beautiful

November 9, 2008, Watercolor, 5.5x7.5''

''It may not be beautiful to anybody else. But to me it's beautiful.''

--Mrs. Pettway, one of the Gee's Bend Quiltmakers

Earth Image, Water

November 24, 2008, Watercolor collage, 5.5x7.5''

Earth Image, Mineral

November 24, 2008, Watercolor collage, 5.5x7.5''

Something that Happened Long Ago

November 16, 2008, Watercolor & ink, 5.75x7.75''

Emma's viola teacher: You are playing too extraverted. Close your eyes and think of something that happened long ago.

Department of the Interior

November 6, 2008, Watercolor, 5.5x7.5''

Symphony for Stones

October 22, 2008, Watercolor, 5.5x7.5''

Bones-Burst

October 8, 2008, Watercolor, 5.5x7.5''

Beethoven Spaces

October 21, 2008, Watercolor, 5.5 x 7.5''

listening to Beethoven's Seventh, imagining Emma playing it next Friday night

Agnes Martin Afternoon

October 8, 2008, Watercolor, 5.5x7.5''

Early Morning Image

October 9, 2008, Watercolor, 5.5x7.5''

Adobe Hacienda

October 9, 2008, Watercolor, 5.5x7.5''

Meditation in Blue-Violet

November 9, 2008, Watercolor, 5.5 x7.5''

my mother's annual garden of blue phlox

Ess In the Water

October 6, 2008, Watercolor, 5.5x7.5''

Barbara said, I was all set to swim in the pond, then I saw an ESS in the water.

Meditation in Gold

October 9, 2008, Watercolor, 5.5x7.5''

Then wear the gold hat if that will move her,

If you can leap high, leap for her too,

Till she cry, "Lover ! Gold-hatted, high-leaping lover,

I must have you !"

--F.Scott Fitzgerald

Holiday Shrine to Lord Krishna

October 6, 2008, Watercolor, 5.5x7.5''

This Week is Over

September 10, 2008, Watercolor collage, 5.5 x 7.5''Watercolor, 5.5 x 7.5''

I Fear Thy Skinny Hand

September 13, 2008, Watercolor, 5.5x7.5''

I fear thee Ancient Mariner / I fear thy skinny hand !

Minimal Damage
Watercolor, 5.5x7.5''

Mountain Streak

September 28, 2008, Watercolor, 5x7''

I'm Not Sure

September 20, 2008, Watercolor, 5.5x7.5''

Mary's student asked, "Do we live ON the earth or INSIDE the earth ?

In Fields of Wonder & Delight

September 26, 2008, Watercolor, 5x7''

For Your Own Protection

September 14, 2008, Watercolor, 5.5 x7.5''

Mixed Feelings

September 17, 2008, Watercolor, 5.5x8''

Never in this World

September 16, 2008, Watercolor, 5x8''

Last Night of the Proms

November 22, 2008, Watercolor, 5.5x7.5''

Pontchartrain

August 31, 2008, Watercolor, 5.5x7.5''

Forcefield of the Gypsy

November 11, 2008, Watercolor & ink, 5.5x7.5''

meditation on Catherine & Heathcliff

Wishes Landscape with Shells

Watercolor 5.5x7.5,"

sold

Wishes Landscape with Shells, a variation

August 26, 2008, Watercolor & ink, 5.5x7.7''

Geode in Violet-Blue

November 9, 2008, Watercolor collage, 5.5x7.5''

with Philip Glass & Sir Nusrat

"If you had no name, if you had no history..."

from Songs from Liquid Days, by Philip Glass

Watercolor, 5x7''

Song for Philip Glass

August 17, 2008, Watercolor, 5.5x7.5''

Liquid Days

suddenly I became aware of a hum in the room

August 17, 2008, Watercolor, 5.5x7.5''

Both Liquid Days watercolors

Conditions on the Ground

August 15, 2008, Watercolor, 5.5 x 7.5''

Do Not Leave Me Here to Complain

August 15, 2008, Watercolor & ink collage, 5.5x7.5''

Green Smiles

Watercolor collage, 5.5x7.5''

Wakeup

Watercolor, 5.5x.5''

Race for Wholeness in the Jung Olympics

Watercolor, 5.5 x 7.5''

Energy of the Death Star, or July in Alabama

Watercolor, 5.5x7''

Experiment with Changing Shapes

Watercolor, 5.5x7.5''

The Ray

Watercolor, 5.5x7.5''

Three Empty Memos

Watercolor, 5.5x7.5''

Stabbing-stroke Landscape

Watercolor, 5.5x7.5''

Lights Out

Watercolor, 5.5x7.5''

As a Full River

Watercolor, 5.5x7.5''

If Moby Dick were Green

wc, 5.5x7.7''

if Moby Dick were green in a bright sea, & Ahab irridescent flakes in a rainbow, & Moby swam right up to the edge of blue where the world stops

Move or Stand Still

November 1, 2008, Watercolor & ink, 5.5x7.5''

O Waly Waly

There is a ship and it sails the sea
She's laden deep as deep can be,
But not so deep as the love I'm in,
I know not if I sink or swim.

Pain in My Heart

Watercolor collage, 5x7''

Watercolor midden

Sky Love

Watercolor & ink, 5x7''

Leafy Land

Watercolor, 5 x 7''

Inspired by Willie

Watercolor, 5x7''

Alligator Dreams, Watercolor, 5x7''

A blue lake under a wide sky / No vines, no birds, no tannin--

Did an alligator dream it / Or did I dream it in my alligator brain ?

Chorus & Echo

Watercolor, 5x7''

Gypsy Reverie

Watercolor, 5x7''

Untitled Earth Painting
Watercolor, 5x7''

In Our Bungalow-Bungalow Home

Watercolor, 5x7''

Gather My Heart

October 30, 2008, Watercolor 5.5x7.5''

If somehow you could pack up your sorrows

And give them all to me,

You would lose them, I know how to use them,

Give them all to me.

--Mimi & Richard Farina, 1966

THIRTY-SEVEN WATERCOLORS from a series I always return to. One by one, each dab of color is brushed on and then pulled out with clear water. When these are dry I paint the background. On my computer I get truest color, especially with the paler tints, by tilting the screen back slightly.

Cadenza

listening to Brahms

March 30, 2009

Watercolor, 8x11.5''

Rising Sky
September 1994
Watercolor 8.5x11.5''

Luminous Sky

January 1997

Watercolor 9.5x13.5''

Luminous Sky

May 1998

Watercolor 9.25x13.25''

Luminous Sky

October 1994

Watercolor 9x13.5''

I Don't Know

June 2007

Watercolor 11x15''

Luminous Sky

January 29, 1995

Watercololr 10.25x14''

Color Circle in a Straight Line

May 7, 2006

Watercolor 10x14''

Color Circle in a Straight Line

May 18, 2006

Watercolor 11x14''

Upstream Waters

September 1, 2008, Watercolor, 8x10.5''

Bright Columns

March 2007

Watercolor 10x14''

Luminous Sky

January 1998

Watercolor 9.5x13.5''

Luminous Wall

July 1994

Watercolor 9.25x13''

Luminous Wall

January 1997

Watercolor 9.5x13.5''

Luminous Wall

March 1997

Watercolor 9.5x13.5''

Luminous Wall

July 1998

Watercolor 9.25x13.25''

Luminous Wall

October 1995

Watercolor 10x14''

Luminous Wall

September 1995

Watercolor 9x13''

Luminous Water

January 1999

Watercolor 9.5x13.5''

Luminous Water

April 2005

Watercolor 8.5x11.5''

Luminous Water

August 1990

Watercolor, 9.25x13.25''

Luminous Water

January 1997

Watercolor 9.5x13.5''

Somewhere Gentle

July 2008

Watercolor 8.5x10.5''

Starfish Sky

April 1998

Watercolor 9.5x13.5''

O for the Wings of a Dove

May 2008

Watercolor 10x14''

listening to Oliver Putland singing this on youtube

Water Columns

January 2006

Watercolor 11x15''

Luminous Water

October 1994

Watercolor, 11x15,'' later cut this into pieces

Luminous Arch

2/1997

Watercolor, 9.5x13.5''

Luminous Wall in Two Pieces

September 1990

Watercolor, 8.25x13''

Gray Vista

2007

Watercolor 5.5x7.5''

Wall or River

April 2006

Watercolor 11x15''

Wall or River, left side showing border

Wall or River, right side

Rising Light

August 2005

Watercolor 11x15''

Rising Light, left side showing border

Rising Light, right side

Bright Lights Water

April 2007

Watercolor 11x15''

Luminous Wall Inside Blue

April 2005

Watercolor, 11x15''

Luminous Wall, Inside Blue

Aria
2006

Watercolor, 11x15''

Earth to Mozart, Come In

January 2009,

Watercolor, 5.5 x 7.5''

Say Goodbye

March 2009

Watercolor, 8.5 x 11.5''

LAST POST OF THESE THIRTY-SEVEN WATERCOLORS

A Robert Favorite

Watercolor, 9x12''