14” wide by 14“ tall, watercolor on Arches 140lb hot-pressed watercolor paper. Hard to get the feeling of chalk on a driveway so this has layers of pastel and color pencil on those chalk areas. The driveway was painted with a base tone and then using a toothbrush, splattered with about twenty different colors. So it is actually very textural to touch. That really helped when the “chalk” areas went down. Using watercolor would have just flattened and blurred the texture so it was necessary to do the chalk almost as if it were chalk.

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9” wide by 12” tall watercolor on Arches 140lb hot-pressed watercolor paper. Private collection.

9” wide by 12” tall watercolor on Arches 140lb hot-pressed watercolor paper. Private collection.

11” wide by 14” tall watercolor on Arches 140lb hot-pressed watercolor paper. Two young boys who lived down the street were out in a rainstorm one summer day. I took it upon myself to explain the joys of jumping in a puddle. They took to it like champs.

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11” wide by 14” tall watercolor on Arches 140lb hot-pressed watercolor paper. The same two fellows exercising their rights as children to come home wet and muddy.

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Approximately 22” wide x 30” tall watercolor on Arches 140lb hot pressed watercolor paper

14” wide by 11” tall, watercolor on Arches 140lb hot-pressed watercolor paper. Private collection.

8” wide by 10” tall watercolor on Arches 140lb hot-pressed watercolor paper. Private collection.

5” wide by 7” tall monoprint on grey toned paper. This is not actually a watercolor but one I felt qualified as such. Our pal and neighbor was going through a series of difficult medical issues and had an extended stay in hospital so I drew him in reverse on a plexiglass plate with Caran d’Ache Neocolor II water based crayons. The plexiglas plate was placed on our etching press and covered by a moistened piece of grayish-brown paper. Then I dropped the blankets on top of the paper and plate and ran it through the press. This is how it printed. A very nice monoprint. I posed him in front of his beloved James Rivah as a reminder of what fun he had in his future. He’s now built a boat, maybe better called a party barge, on which to sit and contemplate the seasons as they change on the James Rivah in Central Virginia. Collection of Dick and Winkie Schoew, great neighbors!

16” wide by 20” tall watercolor on Arches 140lb hot-pressed watercolor paper. Private collection.

16” wide by 20” tall watercolor on Arches 140lb hot-pressed watercolor paper. Private collection.

20” wide by 16” tall watercolor on Arches 140lb hot-pressed watercolor paper. Private collection.

15”t x 22”w Watercolor on Arches 140 lb. hot-pressed watercolor paper.

15”w x 22”t Watercolor on Arches 140 lb. hot-pressed watercolor paper.