**This artwork has been accepted into the IAPS 2009 Web Show.

   pastel
   16 x 22 (in)
   (SOLD)

   Note: Inspiration for this piece came after I viewed the floral 
   artwork of Georgia O'Keeffe at the Art Institute in Chicago one 
   spring.

 

 

 

 

   

   charcoal & pastel
   7 x 11 (in)
   $150

   Note:  These are my daughter's well used (and well

   loved) Converse tennis shoes, briefly resting in a

   patch of sunlight by the front door.

 

 

   

 

   **Featured in Pastel Journal magazine's 'Pastel 100'

   competition--Mar/Apr '06, and 'The Best Art of 2005/2006' 
   (F & W Publishing, Inc).   

   pastel
   12 x 14 (in)
   NFS

   Note: I love the high drama in this still life, with the 
   spotlight's reflection curling around the bowl's shadow.

 

 

             Rock, Paper, Scissors

 

 

   

   pastel
   16 x 20 (in)
   $450

   Note:  This piece, complete with an Indiana brick, has Ron 
   Monsma's influence written all over it.  Thank you, Ron.

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

   

   **This painting won 'Best Pastel' in a juried show in St. Joe, MI, 2008.

   pastel
   18 x 18 (in)
   $500

   Note:  I saw this beautiful tulip growing one springtime at Lilacia 
   Park in Lombard, IL.

 

 

 

 
       Life After Death

 

 

   

 

   pastel
   16 x 12 (in)
   NFS

   Note:  Reference photo taken at Coffee Creek Watershed Preserve, 
   Chesterton, IN.  This dogwood branch bloomed 3 days after being 
   severed from the tree.  Thus the title.
 

 

 

 

  

 

 

   **This painting recently won a Merit Award and a

   Purchase Award in a juried competition.

   pastel
   16 x 23 (in)
   (SOLD)

   Note:  Reference photo taken at Aspen, CO.

 

 

 
             Flowering Ginger

 

 

   

   pastel
   8 x 10 (in)
   $150

   Note: Reference photo taken at Garfield Park Conservatory, 
   Chicago.