The Love Oak | Art to Symbolize Family Love
Here is “The Love Oak.” This painting is a commissioned work for a couple celebrating an anniversary. They wanted me to illustrate a metaphor they used with their children to …
Tree of Life With Phoenixes & Wherever Light Is
These 2 paintings are quite different from each other, but I’m sharing them together because I painted them at the same time as commissioned pieces–one made for a mother and …
Arboreal Dendrites
Here is “Arboreal Dendrites,” 12″ x 36″. This painting was inspired by pictures I took of some amazing kiawe trees in the grounds outside the entrance to Hanauma Bay on Oahu, …
From the Art By Cedar Archives: Into the Winter Sun
I used to take walks in these woods bordering a little park near my home in Baltimore, rain or shine. This painting was inspired by one of those walks. I …
From the Art By Cedar Archives: Autumn Clouds
This painting embodies autumn. It makes me think of tromping through the woods on a muddy trail through a carpet of colorful dried leaves, with my dog. The tips of …
From the Art By Cedar Archives: Fireflies
“Fireflies” from 2005. This is a painting of a soft purple night. A warm, insect-buzzing, summer night out in the country. The original sold long ago, this poor-quality photograph is …
From the Art By Cedar Archives: Mountain Storm
Here is “Mountain Storm” from 2005. This may be one of the most intense paintings I’ve done. Boom! Thunder crashes; a lightning flash fills the dark sky. The thick clouds …
From the Art By Cedar Archives: Dawn Unfolding
Here is “Dawn Unfolding,” painted in 2005. This painting is one of the ones that sold from my very first gallery show in 2006. While I was working on forest …
From the Art By Cedar Archives: Towering Trunk
This painting from 2005 is called “Towering Trunk.” It’s an exciting painting to me because it shows that at this point, I was fully into the genesis of my “Looking …
Happy Mother’s Day! Last Day of Spring Sale
Tomorrow is Mother’s Day! Several of the paintings sold over the past week were a mother’s gift to herself or a gift selected for the honored mother in someone’s life, to …