I got some markers in 1993.  It allowed me a lot more color freedom and I went to town with them.


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A Plaid Person Peering

You can see from the background landscape that they haven’t changed much over the decades. I always return to distant hills, ocean and receding paths.  


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Spotted Bust in Spotted Gallery

The horizontal calmness of that landscape is what I love.  It juxtaposes nicely to the usually more emotionally or psychologically intense portraits in the foreground.


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A Woman With Hand and Messenger

I lived in California most of my life, on the beach and amid rolling hills that would be green or golden depending on the season.  I always come back to them.

 

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See Through Woman

 

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Unfinished Portrait