Nan Henke Archived Artworks

• Five Purple Coneflowers

  Acrylic, Paper, 8.5 x 11. I have been leading groups in gel pad printing lately. It's a lot of fun but what emerges is an occasional piece of lovely abstract art and sheet after sheet of interesting patterns. These (or…

• Two Branches of Sage

  Acrylic, Paper, 8.5 x 11. As the old song says, "When it's round up time in Texas and the bloom is on the sage, how I long to be in Texas just a-riden' on the range! How it beckons and I reckon I would work for any wage…

• Gerbera Daisies

  Watercolor and Ink, Paper, 5 x 7. Gerbera Daisies hit the local gardening outlets before spring hits south central Texas, but they tell us that it is just around the corner!

• Blue Jar of Tulips

  Acrylic, Paper, 6 x 4

• Bluebonnets in Their Best Clothes

  Watercolor, Paper, 5 x 7. As I post this, it is the day before Easter and the lyrics of an old movie song rings thru my head, "In your Easter Bonnet, with all the frills upon it, you'll be the grandest lady in the Easte…

• Pink Lacy Cactus and a Baby Cactus

  Watercolor, Paper, 10 x 8. Another version of the Pink Lacy cactus that I have been obsessed with lately. This one has layers and layers of transparent pink paint in order to portray the rich color yet fragility of the…

• Yucca and Big Cloud

  Watercolor and Ink, Paper, 6 x 4. Yucca often grow on the edges of pastures, but rarely in the middle. I suspect that their spring stems and buds are tasty to animals and am always happy when they survive to the full bl…

• Cactus Near the Tree Line

  Watercolor, Paper, 5 x 7. Yellow flowering prickly pear cactus in the pasture, with a backdrop of the tree line and more distant woods.

• Pink Lacy Cactus: a Pink Explosion

  Watercolor, Paper, 10 x 8. Every spring, I wait with bated breath for the appearance of the Pink Lacy Cactus Flowers. I find them on rocky outcroppings in the pasture and also among the big rocks when I drive the renown…

• Tiny Wildflowers: Frog Fruit

  Acrylic, Paper, 7 x 5. Tiny Wildflowers is the name of my recent Featured Artist show at the Fredericksburg Art Guild, my second collaboration with Fredericksburg poet Megan Willome (www.MeganWillome.com) Together, we e…

• Tiny Wildflowers: Sensitive Briar

  Acrylic, Paper, 8 x 8. Sensitive Briar is a wildflower that has tiny rows of leaves that fold together and curl up when you touch them. Always a favorite with small children, they also feature a subtly tones puffy bloss…

• Tiny Wildflowers: Crow Poison acrylic with poem

  Acrylic, Paper, 8 x 8. Tiny Wildflowers is the name of my recent Featured Artist show at the Fredericksburg Art Guild, my second collaboration with Fredericksburg poet Megan Willome (www.MeganWillome.com) Together, we e…

• Autumn Leaves Watercolor and Acrylic

  Watercolor and Acrylic, Paper, 9 x 12. Maple leaves are the essesce of autumn, whether you find them tucked away at Texas' Lost Maples state park or if you are being bombarded by the colorful and spectacular views in th…

• Autumn Leaves Watercolor

  Watercolor, Paper, 9 x 12. Maple leaves are the essesce of autumn, whether you find them tucked away at Texas' Lost Maples state park or if you are being bombarded by the colorful and spectacular views in the Northeaste…

• Tiny Wildflowers: Common Hedge Parsley acrylic with poem

  Acrylic, Paper, 8 x 8. Tiny Wildflowers is the name of my recent Featured Artist show at the Fredericksburg Art Guild, my second collaboration with Fredericksburg poet Megan Willome (www.MeganWillome.com) Together, we e…

• Tiny Wildflowers: Plains Fleabane, framed painting and poem

  Acrylic, Paper, 8 x 8. Tiny Wildflowers is the name of my recent Featured Artist show at the Fredericksburg Art Guild, my second collaboration with Fredericksburg poet Megan Willome (www.MeganWillome.com) Together, we e…

• Tiny Wildflowers: Texas Vervain, framed painting and poem

  Watercolor, Paper, 8 x 8. Tiny Wildflowers is the name of my recent Featured Artist show at the Fredericksburg Art Guild, my second collaboration with Fredericksburg poet Megan Willome (www.MeganWillome.com) Together, w…

• Tiny Wildflowers: Split Leaf Senna, painting and poem

  Acrylic, Paper, 8 x 8. Tiny Wildflowers is the name of my recent Featured Artist show at the Fredericksburg Art Guild, my second collaboration with Fredericksburg poet Megan Willome (www.MeganWillome.com) Together, we e…

• Tiny Wildflowers: Lazy Daisy, painting and poem

  Watercolor, Paper, 8 x 8. Tiny Wildflowers is the name of my recent Featured Artist show at the Fredericksburg Art Guild, my second collaboration with Fredericksburg poet Megan Willome (www.MeganWillome.com) Together, w…

• Snow-on-the-Mountain Among the Cactus

  Watercolor and Acrylic, Paper, 10 x 8. This cheerful scene is mixed media: acrylic, watercolor, graphite and ink. As late summer fades into early autumn, sometimes odd plants grow together!

• Armadillo in his Fiesta Outfit

  Watercolor, Paper, 5 x 7. Armadillo usually tend toward neutral colors for camouflage, but I surprised this one in his Fiesta finery! Both the 5x7 original and reproductions up to 22x32 are available on paper or canvas.…

• Armadillo acrylic collage

  Acrylic, Paper, 8 x 10. A bright and cheerful armadillo painting, collages out of acrylic paper that I monoprinted myself. It is much the best way of getting the colors and patterns that you want for collage. There is a…

• Landscape with 3 Pink Cactus Flowers

  Watercolor, Paper, 6 x 4. This little landscape includes a copy of Megan Willome's poem, Spring, which was paired with the painting for our collaborative show.

• Indian Paintbrush in Bluebonnets and grass acrylic 2404 10x15

  Acrylic, Paper, 15 x 10. Indian Paintbrush wildflowers look their best when surrounded by blues and greens. Luckily for these particular flowers, they live in the Texas Hill Country!

• Avocado Leaning on it’s Better Half

  Watercolor, Paper, 8 x 10. Do you lean on your better half? I sure do!

• Hummingbird with Flowers

  Watercolor, Paper, 8 x 10. A student requested a watercolor workshop on hummingbirds, so I have been having fun studying hummers and hummer art.

• Spring Wildflower: Mexican Blanket

  Acrylic, Paper, 5 x 7. Did you know that the red color on the Mexican blanket wildflower extends more into the yellow or less, depending on the composition of the soil? Where I live, our soil has a lot of caliche (limes…

• Yellow Flowers in a Pink Vase

  Acrylic, Paper, 11 x 8.5. This acrylic on paper painting was created by first mono printing leaves all over the paper in several levels, then by negative painting a background to create the vase shape, then painting in…

• Pumpkin

  Watercolor, Paper, 5 x 7. From the pumpkin painting workshop that I teach each fall. Who can resist the rich colors of autumn when you have just survived a long hot Texas summer?

• Sunflowers with Personality and a Pumpkin

  Watercolor, Paper, 7 x 5. Call me crazy, but as I started inking this sweet little watercolor still life, it’s stopped looking so still to me. The flowers seemed to gain individual personalities and engage with each oth…

• I Heard it Through the Grapevine

  Watercolor, Paper, 10 x 8. Botanical impression panting with ink hilights.

• Seventeen Cactus Fruits

  Watercolor and Ink, Paper, 5 x 7. 17 cactus fruit (or “tunas”) were all that were left on this large spreading prickly pear cactus— all too far from the edges to be easily eaten by foraging wildlife. If the hot weather…

• Great Blue Heron (includes a poem by Megan Willome)

  Watercolor, Paper, 7 x 5. The Great Blue Heron is a magnificent bird that likes to keep its distance from humans. So when he comes a tad closer and seems to look at you, it feels like an honor. Purchase of this painting…

• Armadillo

  Watercolor and Ink, Paper, 11 x 14. Armadillos are a perfect match for my watercolor and ink style. Did you know that they are always born as same gender quadruplets?

• Stacked Wildflowers no.2

  Watercolor, Paper, 6 x 4. I drove past a patch of wildflowers east of downtown Fredericksburg and was grabbed by a momentary view of Blanket Flowers in the front with Bluebonnets behind them, and some tall yellow daisie…

• Bluebonnet Impression

  Watercolor, Paper, 7 x 5. I’m experimenting with more freedom and movement in my Bluebonnets. Wet on wet watercolor and a larger brush FORCES me to let go of some of those details that I love too well.

• Texas Jar of Daisies

  Watercolor, Paper, 10 x 8. Spring is the time when one cannot resist bringing a little of the outside indoors. Humble daisies in an old jar say “Home” to me.

• Pink (!) Bluebonnets

  Watercolor and Acrylic, Paper, 7 x 5. Pink (!) Bluebonnets An impressionist version of the pink variant that is seen from time to time in the bluebonnet family.

• Bluebonnets, Indian Paintbrush and Winecups

  Watercolor and Ink, Paper, 8 x 10. This painting is also called “Just One Song”. The paintbrushes in the middle were not originally there and the composition was out of balance. It reminded me of a country song written…

• Indian Paintbrush no. 3

  Watercolor, Paper, 7 x 5. Indian Paintbrush are the perfect complement to bluebonnets, either in a field of spring wildflowers or on your wall in the excessive heat of summer or cold of winter. This is one of four water…

• Indian Paintbrush no. 2

  Watercolor, Paper, 7 x 5. Indian Paintbrush are the perfect complement to bluebonnets, either in a field of spring wildflowers or on your wall in the excessive heat of summer or cold of winter. This is one of four water…

• Indian Paintbrush no. 1

  Watercolor, Paper, 7 x 5. Indian Paintbrush are the perfect complement to bluebonnets, either in a field of spring wildflowers or on your wall in the excessive heat of summer or cold of winter. This is one of four water…

• Indian Paintbrush no. 4

  Watercolor, Paper, 7 x 5. Indian Paintbrush are the perfect complement to bluebonnets, either in a field of spring wildflowers or on your wall in the excessive heat of summer or cold of winter. This is one of four water…

• Cactus with Buds, Stripes and Bubbles

  Watercolor and Ink, Paper, 8 x 10. Have you ever heard an author say that a character got away from them while they were writing a book? You know, the character went their own way and the writer just had to catch up wit…

• Cactus with Stripes

  Watercolor and Ink, Paper, 8 x 10. Some days I just HAVE to break the rules about backgrounds. I’m slowly learning to let my hand eye and brain do what they want.

• Wet Landscape with Cacti

  Watercolor, Paper, 4 x 6. Fourth in my series of wet-on-very-wet watercolor landscapes, this small painting includes some brilliant red cactus flowers.

• Wet Landscape no. 2: Road to the Water Tank

  Watercolor, Paper, 5 x 5. “Water Tank” is Ranch Texan for a pond or a dammed bit of creek or anything that holds water. Even a metal drum up on legs, which is what I was always looking for when my in-laws said “Tank.” T…

• Wet Landscape no. 1

  Watercolor, Paper, 5.5 x 5. I’m always experimenting with new techniques, tools and materials. This time I decided on ultra wet paper and lots of thick paint. I really like the way it moved around on the paper tp create…

• Random Wildflowers

  Watercolor and Ink, Paper, 6 x 4. I’ve been experimenting with glazing (layers of watercolor) and negative painting (painting the background to define an object instead of painting the object itself.) This is a favorite…

• Jar of Flowers

  Watercolor, Paper, 10 x 8. When someone gives me flowers, I always want them to last forever. Obviously, they never do. That is one of the reasons why I love painting. I can make a happy moment last forever.

• Two Coneflowers

  Watercolor and Ink, Paper, 4 x 6. I’d like to teach a workshop that includes watercolor glazing (layering colors) and negative painting (defining an object by painting around it instead of painting on it.) So. I took so…

• Bulldozer: Back Burn to Contain the Grass Fire

  Watercolor, Paper, 4.25 x 6.5. The neighbor’s pasture was struck by lightening last week and the fire jumped into our pasture. A total of about 400 acres burned but no homes, people or animals were harmed. Most of the t…

• Prairie Verbena Florets, close-up

  Watercolor, Paper, 10 x 8. Prairie Verbena is one of my favorite Texas wildflowers. But if you Google it, you will see that it does NOT look like this painting. That’s because this is a close-up view, tightly focused on…

• Breakfast View: Palm Trees and Rock Wall

  Watercolor, Paper, 7 x 5. Sweet vacation memories…. Why does the ocean call to us when we need rest and refreshment?

• Dragonflies in their Dress Wings

  Watercolor and Ink, Paper, 5 x 7. These dragonflies do not appear to be wearing their everyday wings but some kind of extra special sparkly, curvy lined ones. Perhaps they are dancing a birthday ballet high in the air…

• Trees Above the Riverbank, with Cat

  Watercolor and Ink, Paper, 7 x 5. Cats are part of the landscape around here… Any cat art purchased in 2021 will trigger a 20% donation to local feral cat fixing charities.

• Master of All He Surveys

  Watercolor and Ink, Paper, 7 x 5. The trees, the water tank, the cactus, all belong to this cat. In his eyes anyway! Any cat art purchased in 2021 will trigger a 20% donation to local feral cat fixing charities.

• Cat at the Crossing

  Watercolor, 5 x 7. Cats like to wander off and see the world. This one is checking out the afternoon sun down by the creek. Any cat art purchased in 2021 will trigger a 20% donation to local feral cat fixing charities.

• Raspberries By the Side of the Trail

  Watercolor, Paper, 10 x 8. Built in trail snacks!Don’t try this at home, but one of my very young relatives stored the raspberry that she did not have time to eat on the trail... in her ear!

• Hay Bales by the Old Fence Line

  Watercolor, Paper, 8 x 10. We have had a rare wet summer and hay bales abound. I love the way they catch light.

• Cat Having a Bad Hair Day

  Watercolor, Paper, 5 x 7. Wet-on-wet watercolor painting is always a risk: how much water on the paper? How much pigment on the brush? How far will the pigment spread before drying? This cat turned out perfectly: paws,…

• Home is Where the Food Bowl Is

  Watercolor and Ink, Paper, 4 x 4. Part of my Barn Cat show at the Fredericksburg Art Guild, this small painting reminds us that when a cat looks like it is having deep philosophical thoughts, it is probably just thinkin…

• 5 Mexican Hats 3 buds

  Watercolor, Paper, 8 x 10. Usually I cannot resist adding ink lines to emphasize the wonderful scraggly aspect of Mexican Hat wildflowers, but these came out of the end of my brush with such appealing scraggle (I think…

• Dandelion #9

  Watercolor, Paper, 8 x 10. Dandelions continue to fascinate me. I’ve been playing with different ways to ink the blossoms and this is a favorite.

• When the Bluebonnet Season Ends

  Watercolor and Ink, Paper, 7 x 5. When the bluebonnet season fades, other wildflowers pick up the slack and provide a wild variety of color above the faded bluebonnets and their seed pod stages. Fire Wheels (a.k.a. Indi…

• Plumbago Blossom Close-up

  Watercolor, Paper, 14 x 11. Plumbago have what I call puff ball flowers, kind of like Hydrangeas, where one flower is made of many tiny blossoms and buds in various stages of life. Here I have closed in on just a few, s…

• Blue Daisies (11x14 version)

  Watercolor and Ink, Paper, 11 x 14. I love the ragged edges of there daisies and the way that the ink draws the eye to their scraggly raggedness... I found a nasty old plastic bristled brush in a tool chest and played w…

• Mixed Color Daisies and Buds

  Watercolor and Ink, Paper, 11 x 14. Spring and colorful flowers raise my smile every time!

• Prickly Pear Cactus, 3 watercolor paintings: 8x10, 4x6, 4x6

  Watercolor and Ink, Paper, 11 x 14. These 3 paintings come as a set and are intended to be framed separately and hung together. I prefer them a little offset, as shown in the group photo. But you might want to align the…

• 2-Color Daisies: Pink and Blue

  Watercolor and Ink, Paper, 4 x 6. Last in the series of coffee-brush scraggly daisy paintings. This one really shows the color blending best. There are three more on Etsy if you want to see (or collect!) them all.

• 2-Color Daisies: Blue and Teal

  Watercolor and Ink, Paper, 4 x 6. My husband retired the rough brush that he has used for a decade or two to clean his coffee grinder. I love the scraggly ends that it leaves. They became petals, then daisies, then the…

• Standout Sage

  Watercolor, Paper, 11 x 14. “When it’s roundup time in Texas and the bloom is on the Sage,” begins the old cowboy song... I know that sage only blooms after a rain, so maybe they held off on roundups during the frequent…

• Icicles on the Chinaberry Tree

  Watercolor, Paper, 7 x 5. Dried yellow China berries cling to the tree by their reddish stems all winter... This year they were attacked by a series of 5 Arctic Blasts in 10 days. Coated with layers of ice, the berries…

• Snow Cat and Real Cat Contemplate Each Other

  Watercolor and Ink, Paper, 7 x 5. During the South Central Texas series of Articles Blasts (February 2021) we alternated ice storms and snow storms for about a week. After one snowstorm, I decided that it was the right…

• Agarita Bush Against the Tracks We Made Going to the Creek to Break Ice for Water

  Watercolor and Ink, Paper, 5 x 7. The Great Arctic Blast Series, Valentines week 2021, South Central Texas.

• South Central Texas Barnyard With Snow and Fallen Branches

  Watercolor and Ink, Paper, 5 x 7. Art during the Arctic Blast. Does it count as Plein Aire if I had the heater on in the car? I was charging my phone, warming up a bit and painting in the only place in which I was willi…

• Heart with Ants... Or are they Millipedes in love? One-of-a-Kind Valentine

  Watercolor and Ink, Paper, 4.5 x 6. Every year I make Doodle Valentines for local galleries and for my own family members. Every year they get a little stranger! Blank inside: words of love are best in your own handwrit…

• Standout Bitterweed

  Watercolor, 11 x 14. During wildflower season in the Texas Hill Country, it is possible to see SO MANY wildflowers that the all become a blur... and then one flower jumps out at you. It is a standout because of the brig…

• Standout Mexican Blanket Wildflower

  Watercolor, Paper, 14 x 11 x .01. During wildflower season in the Texas Hill Country, it is possible to see SO MANY wildflowers that the all become a blur... and then one flower jumps out at you. It is a standout becaus…

• Eight Pink Thistles

  Watercolor, 8 x 10. Rancher call them weeds, but I call them beautiful! Yes, they take space, sunlight and water from the grasses, but I think that they lift our spirits with their bright pinks and purples.

• Cabin with Fall Colors

  Watercolor, 7 x 5. I can never get enough of Autumn colors. Here in Texas, we don’t have the big New England full color landscapes... But in the right place at the right time you can find a bit of contrast and brillianc…

• Bluebonnet with Rough Edges, acrylic

  Acrylic, Paper, 8 x 4. I am getting ready to start painting a commissioned 40x60 Bluebonnet landscape acrylic painting, so this was a test run on making a fairly large bluebonnet in acrylics. The flowers in the landscap…

• Falling Leaves watercolor collage

  Watercolor, 10 x 8. Fall leaves in watercolor are fun and inking the serendipitous wanderings of the various hues is always fascinating to me. I made this collage by cutting out and layering leaves upon leaves, arrangin…

• Brown Eyed Susan, Bluebonnet and Indian Paintbrush

  Watercolor, 10 x 8. Favorite wildflowers whose bright colors complement each other. And I am in love with the way my unique inking style makes the colors pop!

• Three Pink Thistles

  Watercolor, 5 x 7. I hold a monthly Open Studio day and encourage my students and others to come, talk art, paint and experiment. This was my loosening up experiment yesterday.... I love it!

• Three Kinds of Cactus no. 9

  Watercolor, Paper, 6 x 4. I was preparing to teach a watercolor cactus workshop and did a series of this composition, repeated with different colors and inking. This one was an Instagram favorite...

• Backlit Pink Thistles no. 5

  Watercolor, Paper, 12 x 18. Ranchers hate these thistles. They are weeds and they ‘steal’ water and nutrients that rightfully belong to the grasses. But I have a secret and silent passion for their bright pink blossoms.…

• Backlit Pink Thistles

  Watercolor, Paper, 7 x 5. Ranchers hate these thistles. They are weeds and they ‘steal’ water and nutrients that rightfully belong to the grasses. But I have a secret and silent passion for their bright pink blossom...

• 3 Kinds of Cactus no.7

  Watercolor, 6 x 4. I have been doing a series of small watercolors exploring different (crazy) colors in the same configuration of three cacti. This one was monochromatic (except the flowers) and needed something to giv…

• Barrel Cactus with Pink Flowers

  Watercolor, Paper, 10 x 8. I love all sorts of cacti, but these pudgy fellows with a halo of flowers have a special place in my heart.

• Dahlias no 1

  Watercolor, 10 x 8. These lovely flowers are from River Road Botanicals in Fredericksburg TX. They challenged me to paint Dahlias and I started on a digital version, but it is SO complex that I had to take a break and d…

• Claret Cup (Strawberry) Cactus

  Watercolor and Ink, Paper, 18 x 24. Claret Cup Cactus are named after the shape of their blossoms, but they are also called Strawberry Cactus for the brilliant color of those same blossoms. They are hard to find when no…

• Sunflower and a Half and a Quarter

  Watercolor and Acrylic, Paper, 10 x 8

• Mexican Hats, Prickly Pear and Bluebonnets no. 3

  Watercolor, Paper, 5 x 7

• Wavy Misty Landscape

  Watercolor, Paper, 5 x 7

• Vineyard with Stone House

  Watercolor, Paper, 8 x 10

• Misty Day

  Watercolor, Paper, 5 x 7

• Where the Road crosses the Creek

  Acrylic, Canvas, 24 x 36 x .75

• ACEO # 31, Mexican Hats $8

  Watercolor and Ink, Paper, 3.5 x 2.5. I have a blog post explaining what ACEO stands for but here it will suffice to say: these are original paintings, the size of baseball cards.

• Geraniums no. 3

  Watercolor and Ink, Paper, 5 x 7. Geraniums were my Mom’s favorite flower, so I go on periodic binges of painting them. I put this one on Facebook and Instagram without the inking and felt that it lacked a certain panac…

• Cactus near the Tree Line

  Acrylic, Paper, 8 x 10. One day I was walking thru the pasture, looking at cactus pads, how the get self-shadowed into a series of differing greens. This cactus stood out because the dark shadows of the tree line framed…

• Claire’s Cactus

  Encaustic, Paper, 10 x 8. I am new to Encaustic painting, which is painting with colored melted beeswax. One of the reasons that I like it is that it is somewhat unpredictable and uncontrollable, like watercolor. The ar…

• Following Your Own Muddy Tracks Home on a Wet Day

  Acrylic, Paper, 8 x 10. Jeeps are hardy little vehicles, great for ranching on foggy wet days. Sometimes between the tall grass, the weather and approaching darkness it gets hard to find the right roads, so stumbling ac…

• Pink Thistle Against a Cliff

  Watercolor, Paper, 5 x 7. Another stunning wildflower that is considered an invasive weed by local ranchers, including those I am related to. I just have to be the outlaw on this topic: I love these thistles. They are a…

• Cactus in Front of a Small Cliff

  Watercolor and Ink, Paper, 5 x 7. I used this image to teach a textures in a watercolor workshop. Getting the cliff wall to look rough and broken and cold while the cactus is smooth and rounded and catching the warm sun…

• Three wildflowers in Conversation

  Watercolor and Ink, Paper, 5 x 7. greenthread lazy daisy Indian blanket

• Indian Paintbrush with Crossed Stems

  Watercolor, Paper, 14 x 11. I am SO ready for spring! This painting is based on one of last year’s photos which was way too busy- absolutely crowded with blossoms. My first pencil sketch looked like wallpaper. Then I no…

• Mixed Florals

  Acrylic, Paper, 5 x 5. I was dilly-dallying with flowers one day and came up with this charming little painting. I’d love an opportunity to paint something like this 5 FEET square instead of 5 inches!The optional frame…

• Dandelion no. 5

  Watercolor and Ink, Paper, 5 x 7 x 0.01. I can hear a lawnmower as I type this, so it is a pretty sure thing that someone near me is thinking bad thoughts about dandelions - it just goes with the task. But you might be…

• Standout Pink Thistle

  Watercolor, Paper, 14 x 11. Is the thistle a noxious weed? Or a lovely native wildflower, filling pastures with brilliant pink heads bobbing in the wind and attracting the buzzing bees? The Texas Hill Country answer pro…

• Pink Lacy Cactus

  Watercolor, Paper, 4 x 6. The brilliant flower of the Pink Lacy Cactus blossoms near my April birthday, so I always have a special pasture ride for no purpose but to spot them. These cacti are tiny barrels with big flow…

• Three Bluebonnets with Stormy Background

  Acrylic, Paper, 14 x 11. If you have been following my art, for very long, you know that I go on an annual bluebonnet painting binge. This is the third I have put on my website this week. They took almost a month to pai…

• Pink Thistle Flower and 2 Buds

  Watercolor and Ink, Paper, 8 x 10. I have come up with a new way of inking pink thistle flowers - I hope that you like it as much as I do!

• Doe-Re-Mi Lavender Farm with Indian Blankets

  Watercolor, Paper or Canvas, 5 x 7. If you are in the San Antonio area, a road trip to the Doe-Re-Me Lavender Farm is worth your time: it is a little way off hiway 35 at Moore, which is between Devine and Pearsall, SW o…

• Standout Claret Cup Cactus

  Watercolor, 14 x 11. During wildflower season in the Texas Hill Country, it is possible to see SO MANY wildflowers that the all become a blur... and then one flower jumps out at you. It is a standout because of the brig…

• Standout Indian Blanket in a Crowd

  Watercolor and Ink, Paper, 7 x 5. Sometimes we drive past a drift (or even an entire field) of Indian Blanket wildflowers and they are just a colorful blur... Other times, one unique blossom jumps out at you. That is wh…

• Pink Lacy Cactus Flower no. 2

  Acrylic, Paper, 7 x 5. My birthday coincides with the short blooming season for my favorite bright pink cactus flowers, so a cactus hunt is usually on my the celebration agenda. The base cactus is low to the ground and…

• Standout Lavender

  Watercolor, Paper, 14 x 11. During wildflower season in the Texas Hill Country, it is possible to see SO MANY wildflowers that the all become a blur... and then one flower jumps out at you. It is a standout because of t…

• Pink Lacy Cactus Flower no.1

  Acrylic, Paper, 7 x 5. My birthday coincides with the short blooming season for my favorite bright pink cactus flowers, so a cactus hunt is usually on my the celebration agenda. The base cactus is low to the ground and…

• Indian Blanket and Bluebonnet, Acrylic painting

  Acrylic, Canvas, 10 x 20 x .75. When I find a composition that really grabs me, I will often try it in several mediums. I have already posted the digital version of this and hope to do one in watercolor. I am a little u…

• Late Afternoon Sun Coming Around the Curve in the Road

  Acrylic, Panel, 6 x 6. Late afternoon sun transforms a simple curve in a Texas Hill Country ranch road into an extravaganza of light and shadows.

• Fence Posts and Wildflowers

  Acrylic, Canvas, 10 x 8 x .75. There is not much left of this fence... a lone post and an H brace that suggests that there was once a corner or a gate on the quiet little hill that has surrendered to the grasses and wil…