For Sale By Owner,  8" x 14" on Arches 140lb cold press paper.
While riding our Harley on a pleasant spring morning, up the coastline from St. Pete, FL, we took the back roads looking for old Florida barns and cabins.  We found this old tin-roofed house - and, wow!, it was for sale (had to stop ourselves from putting in an offer!) Stopped for a lemonade and sandwich and sketched this "Ole Cracker House".  Original $125      Limited edition, signed & numbered Giclee prints $50 Note cards $2.50 ea. or 5 for $10.00  

St. Timothy's Catholic Church, 10" x 14", on Arches 140lb cold press paper.
When visiting my brother-in-law in a small town in central Florida, the local Catholic Church has this beautiful architecture and people come from miles around to attend Mass here.  We took some photos of it and from them I did this watercolor.   Original $75.00          Prints, signed $25    Note cards $2.50 ea. or 5 for $10.00
                  

Roses & Cherubs #2, 24" x 32", on Arches 140lb cold press paper.
I like to experiment with floral pictures with cherubs.  We had an old vase that matched the picture in my mind. The background was a new technique I was experimenting with, doing "wet on wet" watercolor application.
Original  $500      Limited edition, signed & numbered Giclee prints  $150   Note cards $2.50 each or 5 for $10.00

The Hurricane, 7.75" x 10.25",  print of pen and ink drawing.
The Hurricane, in Pass-a-grille, FL, an old beach restaurant/bar that was torn down several years ago and this new 3 story wooden building replaced it. It's right across the street from the Gulf of Mexico and I was on the beach (you can see the boardwalk and sea oats in the foreground) and sketched this unique building. I rendered it in pen and ink and had prints made. Now I individually drop watercolors into each picture. Each one is unique, depending on the amount of pigments and the various colors that I use.  Limited edition prints  $45 matted       Note cards (black and white) $1.50 each or 8 for $10.00

 

 Magnolia #5, 14.5" x 22", on Arches 140lb cold press paper
This is one of my favorite flowers to paint because, for 30 years we lived in a house with a huge magnolia tree in the back yard and when it bloomed the whole backyard was filled with it's delightful fragrance. We would take the flowers and put them in a bowl of water in the house and since we didn't have air conditioning, but only ceiling fans, the fragrance wafted from room to room.
Original  $220              Limited Edition, signed & numbered Giclee prints, 13" x 19"  $75      Note cards $2.50 each or 5 for $10.00

Orange Tulips #2, 9" x 12", on Arches 140lb cold press paper
On one of our "grocery safaris" the local supermarket had beautiful potted orange tulips - we couldn't resist.  As they sat on the dining room table, I thought they would be the perfect subject for a new technique i was working on, a looser, more abstract type of watercolor using some alcohol on the surface of the paper and using "paint spattering".
Original $150         Limited Edition, signed and numbered Giclee prints  $60    note cards $2.50 each or 5 for $10.00

Parrots, 11" x 14", prints of original watercolor
A good friend was getting married and I wanted to give her something special and she said "just paint me some parrots!". So I studied several books on various types of parrots so I  would get the color combinations correct and then put these two guys in a Florida foliage background.  P.S. - she loved it!     Open Edition Prints $50    Note cards $2.50 each or 5 for $10.00

Garden of Angels, 10" x 14" print of original watercolor
The four terra cotta cherubs were a gift from a friend years ago and they still sit on our étagère in our living room. I don't remember where we got the roses, but they were some of the fullest and most delicately colored roses I've ever seen. The composition just flowed together in this painting. One of my regular customers at the frame shop just had to buy it for a favorite aunt who loved roses and angels.  Original sold for $475    Limited Edition Signed & Numbered Prints available  $150   Note cards $2.50  each or 5 for $10.00