This painting was designed to exploit the color red, but also to relate to an emotion connected to the heart, for a charity auction for the Arkansas Heart Association. It got a very high price, almost twice my usual full-sheet price.

A Springtime bouquet with vivid red accents. The title could be translated into " I will give you all the Springtime Seasons ".

Inspiration: a red-rose given after an argument. I enjoyed utilizing the natural deckle of the paper to incorporate the rose petals. Collection of Rick and Belinda Straznicky.

Just a bit of fun I had painting a girl who was showing off her new jacket.

This old truck was parked in on a friend's lot and as we drove by it one day, the late afternoon sun was glaring through the dirty old glass and the cobwebs were glistening and it just called to me!

Poured acrylic ink, finished with transparent watercolor -all on top of miskit applied with a squeeze bottle.

A sunset picture in the hills of Central Otago in New Zealand's South Island - an area of great beauty and a magnet for artists.

When I bought this beautiful bouquet of red tulips, I had to take a photo of them before they all wilted.

A flaming red parrot tulip!

This painting is of some flowers from my most prolific rose plant in the garden of our last house. Where we live now we gave up on growing roses because they all get eaten by the deer.

Steps in the "red rose city" of Petra

This guy can strut his stuff!

We're always desperate for spring here in Vermont. The Woodstock Inn & Resort, down the street from my studio has a plethora of tulips outside in May. This month's topic of "Red" was perfect for me to share this exercise in a complimentary composition of red and green I did as a demo in a spring class in 2009.

A young japonese lady who came in Quebec to study. She was taking part of the 'Mondial des amuseurs publics'to run an Origami workshop.

I was inspired by the lovely amaryllis which bloomed Springtime

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