There are many types of art. Some of them we refer to it as Art with a capital A.

What is Art really?
The accepted definition is "the use of the imagination to make things of aesthetic significance."

The great thing about this definition is that the words "aesthetic" and "significant" are open to interpretation by the individual, and "things" can mean almost anything. Thing can include gardening, culinary and textile arts.

The flaw in this definition is that "thing" tends to mean a material object of some kind. This leaves out the Performing Arts - Dance, theater, and music are Arts, as are any variation of these forms. It also doesn't include the "arts" of medicine, teaching, business and other pursuits. Most of this website is involved with the arts. This section focuses on the Visual Arts and the Museums of the world... and is in the process of being updated... and includes a collection of links to art and design related sites.


I have tried my hand at just about every media, some more successfully than others.
The media is a tool for expression - the ART is in making it speak.

Back in the "old days" we actually used paint and brushes on paper or stretched canvas...






Comissioned as a remembrance of his childhood in the South, "Eddy's Tree" (above) was painted in 1977.



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Left: The first known photo of the artist at work (along side my first boyfriend).
The Chinese character is the Year of the Boar, my astrological sign.

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Art is a statement in itself, an expression of something the creator was feeling (consciously or unconsciously) at the time, but also has meaning to the viewer. It may have been created for another purpose, but in the process, something that hits some sort of "universal chord" and it becomes something more. Truly timeless works are those that have the power to transcend the moment, to "speak" to many people, in different times and different circumstances.
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			Personal Work:

The fluid forms of Asian ink work, French Art Deco, and Frank Lloyd Wright's organic architecture had profound impact on my early work.

The Sumie Bird (11x14") is a result of many of hours spent practicing brush work on traditional plant and animal forms in high school.

Michael, on a full sheet of Arches cold press and framed at 30x40, is the largest traditional water color in my portfolio.

The Nude with Hat was done from life, as part of a series, in conte crayon on slick 18x24 stock. Others were executed in brush & ink or pastel.

Amaryllis was done from a photo, acrylic on canvas 18x24. The Georgia O'Keeffe influence is intentional.

One of several pieces done with the Pentel brush marker. Life drawing from a series, 18x24 on coated paper.

Digital memorial collage - photos of Hawk and scans of found objects

Oregon Coastline was done in pencile from a magazine photo many years ago. I fell in love with the scale between the man on the beach and the wild flowers on the cliff. Lead pencil on paper. 11x17.

Amador Boardwalk watercolor, at 4x5, is one of the smallest. Done from photos of a trip to the California Gold Country.

Sculpture is not a media but a technique. Cast metal, synthetic or fired clay, gum paste on a Birthday Cake or any other physical medium, it's all great fun and very rewarding.

This bronze of one of Demello Grosse's early cartoon figures, was completely hand cast and finished from a lost wax mold (about 5").

a favorite retired dancing shoe brought back to life in galvanized wire.

chairs, a study in negative space - fabric and found objects

Noel holding her portrait, 8x10, watercolor from a digital photo

My Kids, 16x20 watercolor

"Mom, Larry's cheating Again!" 16x20 watercolor

Pencil sketch of the Jeffrey Pine made famous by Ansel Adams, on Sentinel Dome in Yosimite, shortly before it fell.

Onions - 7x5 watercolor

Warren in costume: digital - Photoshop with a Wacom tablt (lbottom eft) embrodery floss on linen (below) 22x30 watercolor (above) with enlarged detail (above right).

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Architecture

Broadacre All-Wright Site - Frank Lloyd Wright Guide	Chapel Architecture
Frank Lloyd Wright: resource & appreciation site	Arthur Stern Architectural Glass Stained Glass Window Frank Lloyd Wright Glass Sculpture Deco
Frank Lloyd Wright	Frank Lloyd Wright: Man, Works, Books & Videos

Art related links

Women in Computer Visual Arts, Effects, and Animation	ARTS PUBLICATIONS AT WWAR
Art and More!	Irish Exhibitions
Belfast Artservices	UC Berk Library home page
(Art)^n Laboratory	SHOWCASE - (Artists Showcase)
World Wide Arts Resources	Collection Finder: Photographs, Prints & Drawings
Milieux: The Costume Site Online Costuming Sources for Historical, Science Fiction & Fantasy Costumers	African American ARTISTS Cultural and Heritage
The Book of Kells	Swiss surrealist H.R.Giger
Selected Civil War Photographs Home Page	Heraldic Arts Heraldry Page

  Museums/Exibits

The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Museums	Gallery and Museum Listings
UC Berk Main home page	Exploritorium
Library of Congress Home Page	J. Paul Getty Museum
The Smithsonian Institution Home Page	The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
Museums in San Francisco and Silicon Valley	Welcome to UC Museum of Paleontology
MFA - An Ancient Egyptian Exhibit	Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco
Monterey Museum of Art	Museum of Modern Art, Fort Worth, Texas The Kimbell Art Museum, Forth Worth
The Daguerreian Society may not answer	VI Group Gallery of Communication Arts may not answer

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