May the Fourth of July Be With You

A nerdy painting I made... oh geez, fifteen years ago I think? Maybe fourteen years ago? I was digging through some old stuff recently and found it.

Rip Torn

A collaboration with my niece when we were playing with some Crayola watercolors and construction paper.

The Golden Apple

A watercolor painting I made as an example for art class.
Yes, another apple.
What can I say? They make for a good assignment and the kids like to eat them when their done.
It does get a little repetitive though I guess.

Also, did you know that the Greek word for orange translates to golden apple? I don't know what's worse, unimaginatively naming the fruit after it's color or calling it a type of apple, which as the idiom makes clear, could not be more different from it.

Midnight Clear

A tiny demo (about 3"x5") for using a masking agent and salt with watercolor paint for art class. It's some snowy trees.

William Tell Overture

Another apple, this one in watercolor.

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday dear old dad!
(a painting from a few years ago)

Locksley Hall

This is an old watercolor painting I did that I thought I'd drag out with the onset of spring. 
I don't have the original anymore as I gave it away as a birthday present to to some girl years ago. 
At the time impressing her seemed really important, but looking back one of the few things I really remember about her was waiting in her apartment for her to be ready to go out as she was trying to discretely have a conversation with her mother on the phone about a recent and uncomfortable bout with severe diarrhea which I totally heard loud and clear in nagging motherly detail.
The spring, when a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.

Beach

This is a watercolor painting I made as an example for class, I think during my internship, based on a series of photos I took while vacationing. It's bathers at sundown along the Gulf shore on Marco Island.
I gave the painting as a gift to my mother and it hung in her office at Western Michigan University until her retirement. Now that she lives most of the year in Florida she can pretty much see this kind of scene whenever she wants to, but for a while at least it was a nice reminder of what laid ahead of her as she read essays, entered grades, and met with complaining students.

Crayola Sunset

I found another one of those elementary school trees I did.

Crayola Sunrise

I was doing some end of the year sorting out and found this tree I did a few months ago. It was made as an example for elementary schoolers who were using crayons and watercolor to make trees. It looks okay I guess for something made with Crayola stuff.

Waterskuller

I was filling in for a class doing watercolor and learning wet on wet technique and while they were on lunch break I doodled this neat-o skull.