Abstractions

Each one of these drawings has been a meditation for me.

These abstractions are a return to work I had learned in college and graduate school and have gone back to periodically. It satisfies some inner feeling beyond words or images. Each drawing takes many hours, days of work until it reaches the point where it feels "right." It is my hope that the viewer will enter into the contemplative spirit in which they are done.

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Yellow painting
watercolor and color pencil on paper
12x12" 2021

March
watercolor and color pencils
12x12" 2021

Meditation for winter
watercolor and color pencil on paper
12x12'

Garden with Ladder
color pencil on watercolor 14x17''

Summer
color pencil on watercolor
13x13"

The City (Inner landscape)
color pencil and watercolor on paper
18x18'

Garden
color pencil on watercolor 14x19''

Autumn
color pencil 19x26''

Study in warm colors
oil on linen 30x30''

meditation #8 (blue study)
color pencil on watercolor 11x13"

Twining
watercolor and color pencil on paper
21x17'

Early Afternoon
color pencil on watercolor 16x16''

private collection

Spring Arising
color pencil on watercolor 8x 11 1/2''

Aamu Rukkaus
color pencil on watercolor 15x17''
This is an older abstract from about 2002.
A Finnish word for ''Morning Prayer.''

Patchwork drawing
color pencil on watercolor 10x10''

Quietness
color pencil on watercolor 15x20''

New Dwelling
mixed media on paper 10x10'

In the collection of Sharon Emley

Family
color pencil and crayon on watercolor 10x9''

private collection

Blue Abstraction
oil on canvas, about 40x45''

Commissioned by John Haro

The Garden, 2
Color pencil and crayon on watercolor

In the collection of Phil Musser and Carol McClennan

July
crayon on watercolor 28x28''

private collection

Study in gray and yellow, 4
color pencil on watercolor 7x7''

Bay College permanent collection

Study in gray and yellow, 3
color pencil on watercolor 7x7''

Bay College permanent collection

Study in gray and yellow, 1
color pencil on watercolor 7x7''

Bay College permanent collection

To the Garden
6''x6''
color pencil on watercolor

private collection

Study in gray and yellow, 2
color pencil on watercolor 7x7''

Bay College permanent collection

tone poem #3
color pencil on watercolor 4x4''

In the collection of Kenyon and Lindsay Hanson.

tone poem #2
color pencil on watercolor 4x4''

In the collection of Andera Puzakulich

tone poem #1
color pencil on watercolor 4x4''

private collection

Pikkulaulu 4
graphite on paper 6x6''

private collection

Pikkulaulu 2
graphite on paper 6x6''

private collection

Winter solstice
Color pencil on watercolor 21x25''

Collection of Jacob Koskenmaki

meditation #2
color pencil on watercolor 10x12''

Private collection