Morning at the marina

When I first came to Key West the man who was the captain of the pilot boat ate breakfast every morning in the restaurant where I worked. The Pilot boat guides the cruise ships in through the channel to the port. I am not sure if this boat is still in service since they made the channel bigger, but it does look very charming where it rests at the foot of Front Street. Morning at the Marina 24" x 30" $595.00

Great advice.

A customer in the gallery was admiring the flip flop beach signs and said I should do ones that said "Pool" for the people who had pools. I sounded like great advice to me so I made them in flip flops and mermaids. They have proven to be very popular. I hope that the customer comes back so I can tell her she was right and give her a free sign. Another customer wants a flip flop that says "bar", so I quess there will be some bar signs too.

Keepin' it real - almost

This lovely bunch of coconuts was painted a couple of weeks ago and has been at the printers have its picture made, so giclee prints are available of this image. I call this style "contemporary realism". It is a studio painting from a photo I took of a palm tree in my neighborhood. The punched up color and the graphic black edges in some areas were deliberate choices to create some visual excitement. The one thing I don't want you to be when you look at my work is bored!

"Lovely Bunch of Coconuts"

24" x 20" $950.00

It's been awhile

I know it's been awhile since I have posted, but I have been busy doing lots of fun stuff. I was up in South Beach and had the good fortune to make a friend of this egret. He will be a great photo reference for a fun painting.

Isn't he handsome?

I also took some great photos for beach path paintings.

South Beach has these wonderful life guard stands that are painted all different colors.

I went to a rockin' party at the "W" and danced the night away with old friends.

View from the room.

And I have done a little work. Made some orange juice squeezers.

And did some dip sets in black, a color I rarely use. As you can see my camera did turn up. It was on a chair in the back yard for three weeks and still works. Imagine that.

Everyone have a great day.

Abstact palms

I have "misplaced" my camera. I have been looking for it for two weeks and I have finally given up. I borrowed one today to take this photo. These palms are part of my on going revisionist landscape series.

"Dawn Beach" 20" x 24" $395.00

Pointing the way to Margaritaville

These cute little flip flops point the way to Margaritaville. Find them (in a week or two) at Margaritavillestore.com

Look at these cute little turtle shaped coasters. I'm trying to think of more shaped coasters I can do.

turtle coasters $32.00 set of 4

Stars on the water

This painting was started last fall and it has been sitting on the easel daring me to try and finish it. So I worked on it yesterday, thought it was finished, saw some things I didn't like and worked on it again today. Now I think it is finished, but I will look at it a couple of days before I'm sure. It is a large painting 30" x 40" and I am looking forward to taking it into the gallery.

Top shelf

These four pieces were on the top shelf of the last firing. They are two colanders and two batter bowls. The two pottery colanders I have in my kitchen always seem to be in use. I don't bake that often, but when I do I love! the batter bowl. The spout makes getting the batter into the pan much neater.

Batter bowls and colanders, $58.00 each

A Peek inside the kiln.

This is a glaze fire that I am unloading. The glaze fire is the second firing these pieces have been through. I had already unloaded the top shelf when I decided to take pictures of the pieces as they come out of the kiln. This is the second shelf down from the top.

Because that heron platter has glaze on the bottom I placed it on a special 3-prong stilt to keep it from sticking to the shelf. Since it is sort of floating above the shelf I could set some flat pieces under it.

This pineapple platter came out great. I'll give more details about it in the next post.

These flat pieces are sitting in special holders made for tiles. I have to wipe the glaze off the area that is touching the holder before I set them in the holder. I will show more pictures of these items with prices in the next post.

Everyone have a great day.

Now showing at Margaritaville.com

Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville Store and on-line store has added a Made in Key West Section. It features work by local artists. They get serveral items from me. Just out of the kiln and headed their way are these fish spoon rests and these small Key West flip flop ornaments. I think these are going to be on-line and in the store. It is always good to ride on Jimmy's coat tails. These items are also available in 7 Artists Key West gallery.