Near the Marmara Sea

Oil on wooden cigar box.
Another version of this motif painted 1 year after my trip and dedicated to all my fellow travelers down the Aegean coast.

Cherry Strudel

Pen, brown ink & watercolor

Landscape at Assos

Oil on wooden cigar box
An old ruin near the Temple of Athena 

Still Life

A study of flesh and wood

Pen study

Pen Studies

First study exploring a portrait with deep space behind the figure.  I make this with Piero Della Francesca's portrait of Federico II da Montefeltro in mind

A man I saw on the bus he was in his own world saying he could see the air.   Naturally I liked him.

Portrait of Edouard Manet

Ink and wash drawing of the painter Edouard Manet

Man riding on a fish

Moon study

Head study

Falling

Still Life for Mom

Thank God for piles of Dust

Watercolor #6

Watercolor study with pen and ink

Watercolor #5

Work in progress which shows the little set up I used here

Portrait

Watercolors #3 & #4

Watercolor #3

Watercolor #4

Two more watercolors in the series using Guitar brand watercolors.  The pigments are very saturated and rich when used undiluted out of the tube.

Encounter

Squash Head

Revisiting Assos

Number 1

Number 2

On the Road in Turkey

Turn off from main road.

The sign points the way to a Mosque 

Ayvalik

Quick sketch from my Turkey sketchbook

I drew this from a photo I took of this gnarly landscape with an old stone structure.

Roman ruin at Sardis

Watercolors of my small Japanese figures

Watercolor #2

Watercolor #1

For christmas a friend gave me a set of Guitar brand watercolors.  She had given me a set of small Japanese figures years earlier now I am combining the two and making a series of images based on her gifts, here are the first two paintings.

Assos harbor

A view of the buildings at Assos harbor drawn from the jetty. 

Wonderful surreal chairs in Assos Hotel

The Nazlihan Hotel at Assos harbor is a great location to spend a few days.  The lobby of the Hotel has some wonderful animal like chairs that I believe are made of wicker.  When I was there I remember thinking are those chairs comfortable to sit on?
I never sat in one so maybe I will never know, but the surreal look caught my eye.

Pencil drawings from my Turkey sketchbook

Pencil sketch of steep hill at Assos

Pencil drawing of a street in a small village near the Idakoy Ranch House

In Istanbul

Dutch Windmill at end of Golden Gate Park

Dutch Windmill and Beach Chalet

Conservatory of Flowers

I like the energy and disjointed quality of this sketch

Lands End

Watercolor of the Cliff House at Lands End

Small Mackerel

New Year's Day

I pray that all have a happy and healthy year ahead.

Visual memories of Turkey

"Nature is not something that can be seen by the eye alone-it lies also within the soul, in pictures seen by the inner eye..." Edvard Munch

Memory sketch of Winnie, Zeno and Michael at the old Monastery 

Memory drawing of a dinner in Ayvalik with Winnie and Zeno

Self portrait in Ayvalik with large ice cream cone.

Memory and imagination

I am using a drawing I already did and making this up to create a frieze of figures  that looks stage like

a drawing of a figure amongst a group of gnarly and knotty tree trunks.
I saw something like this in Ayvalik when I passed an old wooden house that was falling apart