"Eagle Nest on the Sanpoil", 11x 16", transparent watercolor

"Gold Mountains" 6"x12", watercolor on paper

I'm enjoying following my imagination. I've found a process that I enjoy and can visualize the moment and come up with images such as these. It's cathartic and reflective of my busy lifestyle. To take time to be in the moment and like playing music, let the vibrations of color play out in my imagination. I can see the finished painting before I start.

"We invent ourselves as we wake,
while nature does not sleep,
whether mountain or in flight,
Nature never knows itself."

watercolor haiku, "Kettle Mountain Gold" 3"x6"

Sometimes all you have time for is a quick note to self. Some might call that a haiku in paint. My friend Kate owns a painting like this by me that is 1'x4'. She saw the Kettle Mts in a state of glowing splendor and sent me the digital picture I did this watercolor from. Thanks Kate! Good to know that home is just over those golden peaks.

watercolor landscape, "Duck Brook Bridge, MA" 6x9

Acadia National Park, Maine, has a system of carriage roads established in the 1800's by the Rockefellers and restored by Ed Winterberg. I get the opportunity to work for Wildwood Stables next summer driving horses and giving tours of the Island. What a deal. Working horses and painting where Thomas Cole, Fredrick Church and others painted and many still do. I met New York pleinair painter Walter Mosely here and would have met more but I was busy painting too. My journal is filled with notes to explore on this winter's easle.

"Strokes carry a message whether you will it or not. The stroke is just like the artist at the time he makes it. All the certainties, all the uncertainties, all the bingness of his spirit and all the littlenesses are in it." Robert Henri, "The Art Spirit"