black and white blooms

Faber-Castell brand brush pen on Strathmore smooth bristol board.
9x9"

Being on the beach always inspires beach and ocean art.  There are so many wonderful places and things to explore along the shoreline.  There are edible shellfish and seaweed that can be plucked and eaten immediately.  Others are taken home and steamed to perfection.  Edible art inspirations.

watercolor, color pencil and ink.  5x7"

sunrise on Socotra, Yemen

I happened upon this wonderful world from an inadvertent image search through google.com.  It looks like an amazing place to be.

Go to this link to see photos of this wild and wonderful land.

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/09/most-alien-looking-place-on-earth.html

peenut

Drawn while on hold waiting for "the next available customer service representative".

This part of the world has a lush abundance of mushrooms, mosses and fungi.  When the ground is wet with rain, I take photos of their showy appearances.  This is a purple cort mushroom I found in the dappled sunlight of the woods. And yes,  it is indeed poisonous.

where ever you go,

there you are

piglet pods from the pork tree plant

This originated in a dream. Also, there were grasshoppers, calves and rabbits. It was fauna melting into flora.

century plant bloom

A century plant is a very large agave with sharp, painful needles. They bloom once, then die, leaving rooted starter plants. The stalks are very impressive. They grow quickly to about 20 feet tall. During this time, they look like the Jolly Green Giant's asparagus stalks. I was thrilled to learn recently that the stalks and blooms were used on movie sets as plants on alien planets in the cheesy old movies. Century plants are originally from Mexico, but they are all over the Texas Hill Country. This is my front yard.

framed flower

I found this oval frame recently. It's fun for creating optical illusion art. There will be more of these.

Ink on bristol board.

springtime at the power plant

Acrylic on masonite. There are two layers here, the flowers above the background. This isn't quite finished, and may never be finished. It's been a great experiment and learning exercise.

The objective of this piece is to show the electrifying energy of springtime flowers.

blooming aloe vera and zebra succulent

I sketched this a couple weeks ago. Now, the bloom stalks are about 2 feet tall. I have quite a collection of succulents and cacti, many of them are blooming now.

Spring flowers

It's Spring Time!!! Brushpen and Photoshop.

Wimberley

This Spanish dagger caught my eye outside of Juan Henry's TexMex restaurant. Also, a century plant, agarita bush and live oak trees.

chairy tree

I just love visual puns.

curly palm

Moleskine, ink and Photoshop.

dividivi sway in color

moon flowers

I found these moon flowers in Florida, right in front of a boat pier. They were indeed reaching up to the moon. I listened to The Marriage of Figaro while inking this drawing.

a walk in the woods

After a hard freeze, I wanted to see what it looked like in the woods. I found this tiny plant with great autumn colors.

lemon tree

These are really big, and very juicy lemons. They're also very tart, so they're perfect for a lemon merangue pie. Punta Gorda, Florida.

blooming margarita cactus

A variety of the Kikkiyor assus species.