Summer 2025

Below is the last painting I did for Summer 2025. It is a watercolor I started on location and finished at home. The subject matter is the Historical Palmer Train Depot in the town of Palmer, located in the Matanuska Valley of Alaska.

This is actually a section of a completed watercolor that I am going to  use to create a notecard. I read in an art book, once, how the artist would look for an interesting area within a painting he had made, crop that area, then create a whole new painting. He called it a painting within a painting.

Below is the original watercolor.

Seward, Alaska late spring. Snow is still on all the mountains, but the sun was rising on a crisp, spring morning in Seward Harbor. I always liked fishing boats having grown up around them in Northern California.

Impression Des Chutes Vernal (Vernal Falls, Yosemite). I painted this quick watercolor from a photo I saw and from my memories of climbing to the top of  Vernal Falls in years passed. I liked the results of applying salt to the wet areas of the falling water.

Spring 2025

Here is my latest watercolor made for our note card business. It is an image of an Orca in Resurrection Bay in Alaska.

Another Watercolor, also inspired by the Alaskan Coast, is my version of the Alaskan Horned Puffins.

Winter 2025

I was busy during Summer and Fall of 2024 selling notecards and art. So I am catching up. Below are some new art and a few older pieces. Being an Alaskan Artist is a joy as well as a challenge.

Probably the last winter watercolor to be posted since the present Alaskan winter is coming to an end. It is a painting of a farm near our home where I buy potatoes. You can see old farm equipment and an old out building. Click on image to see larger version.

  

Below is a sketch of Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa is a Spanish mission founded September 1, 1772 by Father Junípero Serra in San Luis Obispo, California. I did the sketch sitting in front of the mission on sunny day in early January. It was a very relaxing time.

Next is a painting I did from a photo I took on my way to Fairbanks, Alaska during Covid. We stopped at a rest stop and I saw this beautiful view of Alaska.The outdoors of Alaska was the right place to be during those times.
 

Below, is a recent watercolor of Thunderbird Falls, a cascade that flows From Eklutna lake through a canyon into the Eklutna river.

Another Sketch I did in late fall of 2024 of the area around the community of Glacier View, Alaska. I did it from a photo I took during the Fall. Glacier view is an hour and a half by car over beautiful mountain passes and terrain from our house.

Quick watercolor sketch I used as a reference from a small photo I saw online. It is of Aa fishing boat in Chignik, Alaska,

The next sketch is that of a barn in the Farming Colony of the Matanuska Valley of Alaska. I saw an old BW photo of the barn and did this two color sketch (Ultra Marine Blue and Burnt Sienna).

Float Plane I saw in Homer, Alaska when we went there last Summer. Homer is always an interesting place to visit with its diversity of sea life as well as different trees and terrain from our area of Alaska where we live. I think it is a Turbo Beaver.

Below is a watercolor I did a few years back. It is a scene from the Matanuska Valley marsh land near the Cook Inlet called the Palmer Hay Flats. I won a second place ribbon for this half sheet watercolor at the Alaska State Fair in 2021.