Exhibitions Collection of several pieces added to the collection of the e-greeting card company Harmony Wishes. A Greek Retrospective at Divine, Seattle, Oct-Dec 2007 Everyday Magic, from Sep 15-Oct 15 2007 , Cloud City Coffee, Seattle. Sunlight Cafe, Seattle July 2007 Juice Goddess, Seattle June 2007

Welcome to Rosewood Art, my pastel artwork journal. Click on any of the category icons (see left) to explore the pieces I've grouped into each theme.

Explore my works chronologically under the "New Work" heading at the bottom of the page. You may email postcards from any of my works - look for the Send Postcard link in the upper right corner, above the image. Several pieces have PDF images for art cards, formatted for Strathmore Creative Art cards. These too are free. You may also find my work at Harmony Wishes, an alternative e-greeting card website.

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22 Mar 2008 Madrona Madrone trees have fascinated me ever since I moved to the West Coast of the US. When the madrone sheds its bark, it reveals such a human skin, mottled by occasional human-like formation--a dimple, navel (innies and outies), an elbow, a nipple. And as an artist, I wondered how to blend reds & greens as seamlessly as the madrone. I made a sketch & photo of this particularly beguiling tree in February of 2008 on San Juan Island, at a small bed and breakfast just outside of Friday Harbor called the Dragonfly Inn. Here I'm working with a very soft paper with oil pastels. The exposed "skin" I worked very smooth, burnishing the oils into the paper as flat as possible using paper stumps. But the bark I wanted to stand up by building the oil pastels into a higher relief.