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PAINTINGS.

The weather of ink

Amid storms and calm, winter trees spread their branches heavenward— bone white fingers merging with the cold pallor of the day. My ink swims darkly in the meltwater as I bring wind and rain, and draw heavy weather across crisp paper.

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INK PAINTINGS

OTHER PAINTINGS

Ink Paintngs

Ink painting of an Edwardian woman with a large hat, in which is painted a nighttime landscape of pines and stars. She wears a white blouse, and half her face is in shadow.

Ink wash painting of a nighttime landscape of pine trees and stars; the land beneath the surface falls away in the shape of a water-stain

Ink wash painting of a barren landscape with just a few scrubby trees, rendered in black ink and wash. Beneath the surface, the land falls away in long drips and wisps of root stock

A stark black and white ink painting of an abstracted hilly landscape of trees, with small flocks o f birds over the horizon

Monochrome black ink painting of some hills with rows of trees, and rain coming down

Spindly pine trees along a dark timberline, with ink spreading and blooming below the line of the hills; white dots of snow

Black ink painting of tall spiky leafless trees on the near shore of a glass-calm lake, with the pine trees of the far shore reflecting brightly on the surface of the water.

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Ink painted scene of small trees growing out of dark dirt; fully 3/4 of the paper shows the dirt beneath the surface, and roots can be discerned among the undulating ground

Monochrome black ink painting of a castle-like house in a stylized woods.

Two panel ink painting showing deep slender roots stretching far below the surface of the earth— we see that the trees themselves are small by comparison to what' below

Ink painting showing a line of storm-rent trees in winter, and black rills of ink running downward in a field of white snow

A stylized black and white landscape of trees and rain beneath a sort of framed archway

Black and white painting: view through and past a tall tree on the near side of the river, you see a boat with slender, elegant sails floating past, and more boats beyond that. Reflections on the water of the sun filtered through the tree branches.

Ink painting of an ivy-covered house with a mansard roof in the Montmartre section of Paris

Other Paintings

Other Paintings

Below are paintings in other mediums, on other substrates. Some are experimental, play, trying new things. Others happened alongside of my ink paintings, and still others are from quite some time ago, but I still love them.

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A painting showing a view of shadow silhouetted people in the streets of paris; it's dusk, and the lights of the buildings reflect brightly in the wet streets. Foreground shows a woman in silhouette carrying an umbrella

Two men wearing sunglasses poe, looking in either direction, while standing in a brightly-colored, semi-abstracted bar with a chandelier

Black and white painting showing what appear to be fireflies amid the grasses and reeds in a darlink sky

Black and white painting of a man made architectural pond in a formal garden with cypress trees

Monochrome view of tall narrow poplar or cypress trees along the water in a formal garden ; buildings can be seen in the distance

Monochrome black painting of a view looking down a narrow street of buildings in Brugge; clouds overhead and dusk falling

Acrylic painting looking over a fence strung with lights, and up at the rear windows of a neighboring apartment building

Painting in color of a row of brownstones, their windows catching the late afternoon light, and a tree with bare branches in foreground

Painting on wood of a woman in old fashioned dress walking away from a lonely-looking clapboard house in the hill country

Acrylic painting in sepia tones, looking up at the front of a building with striped awnings, and sunlight filtering through them.

Acrylic painting in sepia tones with yellow glow of the late afternoon sun in a halow around the gabled roofs, and catching in the strong rectangles of massive windows.

Acrylic painting in sepia tones, looking up at the curved gables of a canal house in Amsterdam, sunlight caught in the many small panes of its windows.

Sepia toned paintings looking over a view of near and far buildings in a city; clouds overhead and a single bare branch tells us it is winter.

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