POSING PUPPY ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR PAINTING

POSING PUPPY original watercolor,  9 x 12 on 300 lb Arches paper.

Buy a pup and your money will buy love unflinching.

Rudyard Kipling

TORTOISE SHELL KITTEN ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR PAINTING

TORTOISE SHELL KITTEN original painting is 8 x 10 on Arches 300 lb paper.

Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.”
― Orhan Pamuk

BOWING SUNFLOWER ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR PAINTING

BOWING SUNFLOWER original watercolor painting is 9 x 12 inches on Arches 140 lb paper.

Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot. -Thomas Moore

SUNLIT TULIPS ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR PAINTING

SUNLIT TULIPS ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR PAINTING is 9 x 12 inches on Arches 140 lb paper.

“A tulip doesn’t strive to impress anyone. It doesn’t struggle to be different than a rose. It doesn’t have to. It is different. And there’s room in the garden for every flower. You didn’t have to struggle to make your face different than anyone else’s on earth. It just is. You are unique because you were created that way. Look at little children in kindergarten. They’re all different without trying to be. As long as they’re unselfconsciously being themselves, they can’t help but shine. It’s only later, when children are taught to compete, to strive to be better than others, that their natural light becomes distorted.”
― Marianne Williamson

WATER LILY ORIGNAL WATERCOLOR PAINTING

WATER LILY original watercolor paper is 9 x 12 inches on Arches 140 lb paper.

Life is 10% what happens to us

and  90% how we react to it.

Dennis Kimbro

WOLF ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR PAINTING

WOLF original watercolor painting is 10 x 9 inches on Arches 300 lb paper.  

The gaze of the wolf reaches into our soul. 

~ Barry Lopez

PANSY ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR PAINTING

PANSY original watercolor is 6 x 7 inches on Arches 140 lb paper.

Pray, love, remember: and there is pansies, 

that's for thoughts.  

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

SUNSET OVER WATER ORIGINAL PAINTING

SUNSET OVER WATER original watercolor painting is 9 x 12 inches on Arches 140 lb paper.

“Clouds come floating into my life, 

no longer to carry rain or usher storm, 

but to add color to my sunset sky.”
― Rabindranath Tagore

HERON ORIIGNAL WATERCOLOR PAINTING

HERON original watercolor painting is 9 x 12 inches on Arches 140 lb paper and is also from a reference photo by Robert Parrott with permission. 

“If you were silent
Flight of herons on dark sky...
Oh! Autumn snowflakes!”
― Sokan, Japanese Haiku

BUTTERFLY ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR PAINTING

BUTTERFLY original watercolor painting is 9 x 12.  This is from one of the wonderful photo references by nephew Robert Parrott with permission. 

I cannot think of any need in childhood 

as strong as the need for a father's protection. 

Sigmund Freud

SANDHILL CRANE ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR PAINTING

 SANDHILL CRANE original watercolor painting is 9 x 12 inches on Arches 140 lb paper.  This is from a photo reference by my nephew Robert Parrott.

“On motionless wing they emerge from the lifting mists, sweep a final arc of sky, and settle in clangorous descending spirals to their feeding grounds. A new day has begun on the crane marsh.”

Aldo Leopold

Flamingo Original Watercolor Painting

Flamingo original watercolor painting is 9 x 12 inches on Arches 140 lb paper.   This is from a reference photo takenby my nephew Robert Parrott in Florida.

"The first difficulty Alice found at first

was in managing her flamingo."

Lewis Carroll

YELLOW FLOWER ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR PAINTING

YELLOW FLOWER original watercolor painting is 9 x 12 inches.

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. 

~Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844

FLYING BLUE HERON ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR PAINTING

GREAT BLUE HERON in flight about 8 x 10 inches on Arches 140 lb paper.

Creativity is the Blue Heron within us waiting to fly; through her imagination, all things become possible.”

Nadia Janice Brown

COWS IN THE SUN ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR PAINTING

Cows in the Sun original watercolor is about 9 x 12 inches on Arches 140 lb paper.  

A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education. ~Smiley Blanton

LAVENDER SUNSET ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR PAINTING

LAVENDER SUNSET original watercolor painting is 10 x 14 inches on Arches 140 lb paper.

Two things are infinite: 

the universe and human stupidity;

 and I'm not sure about the universe.

Albert Einstein

PANTHER - FLORIDA EVERGLADES ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR PAINTING

PANTHER - FLORIDA EVERGLADES original watercolor painting 8 x 9 inches on Arches 140 lb paper.

The important thing is not to stop questioning.

 Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Albert Einstein

SUNFLOWERS IN GLASS VASE ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR PAINTING

SUNFLOWERS IN GLASS VASE original watercolor painting is approximately 9 X 12 inches on Arches 140 lb paper.  I have cropped off the glass vase here as I really don't think it adds to the painting at all. 

"As a human being, one has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when confronted with what exists."

Albert Einstein

YELLOW TULIPS ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR PAINTING

YELLOW TULIPS ON CHECKERED CLOTH original watercolor painting (13 x 13 inches) on Sennelier watercolor paper.

Earth laughs in flowers. 

~Ralph Waldo Emerson, 

GREAT BLUE HERONS ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR PAINTING

GREAT BLUE HERONS original watercolor painting is 9 x 10.75 inches on Arches 140 lb paper.  This is from one of my nephew's amazing photos, Robert Parrott.   

Faith is the bird that feels the light

when the dawn is still dark.

Rabindranath Tagore

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark. Rabindranath Tagore
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