Implicit Self
Images from my soul, dedicated to the world that makes me
Wildlife Inspired Art 2020
This year I visited India in January and came back more inspired about nature and wildlife than I ever before. Since my first visit to Trinidad and then to the Amazon rainforest, I have not found myself gravitating towards nature conservation issues, wildlife, and while not strictly qualified to be of any practical use, I have used my art and skills to help in conservation projects, like some in the George Miksch Sutton Avian Research Center here in Bartlesville. I am hoping to carve out a way to join my love and carefully acquired knowledge and skills to become a part of the world movement towards conservation of wildlife, resolution of human and nature conflict and responsible tourism
This year since my return, I have used oil pastels incessantly on black paper. And made two compositions on acrylic. Here they are from phone photos as I am working on a (hopeful) book and have not had the time to photograph these better.
The first block is sennelier oil pastels on black paper 14″ X 11″.
The last two are acrylic on mixed media paper, 18″ X 24″.
Brilliant blue skipper 
Red junglefowl 
Chestnut-colored woodpecker 
Geoffrey’s tamarin 
Great barbet 
Harpy Eagle 
Purple honeycreeper 
Kalij Pheasants 
Matamata turtle 
Red-eyed tree frog 
Variable cracker
Blue jay feeding a chick in my yard, May 2020 
Sunset Grove. Dedicated to my uncle, who was very sick in the hospital when I started this painting to somehow manage my emotions, he passed away as I was finishing it, in India
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