DO YOU LIKE CLOUDS?

WE do!

This was my cloud I followed home from work last week.

The sun was behind me and others on the road from Key West to Sugarloaf.

No one seemed in a hurry to get home;

traffic was going slow to take in the view.

A very happy sky diver twirled down to

the airstrip before the rains came.

I knew Bill would be out with his camera:

this is his fav,' pic.'

It's been his screen-saver this week.

So he's loaned it to us all.

"SUGARLOAF"

OUR GARDEN

on the water.

Oil on canvas; 16 X 20

"TRANCE"

"TRANCE"

DAVID SCOTT MEIER

The siren call of the tennis ball.

Oil on panel; 16 X 20.

"PERFECT"

"PERFECT'

Oil, 23 carat gold on canvases.

The collector may hang them above one another

or side-by-side.

The canvas carrying the adjectives

may be inverted.

"GOOD" is best

but "BaD" happens sometimes.

SWIMMER

A NEW SWIMMER...

based on the offering of hospitality.

Oil on canvas. 

16 inches by 47 inches.

The geometry of pineapples.

The painting techniques include the scrapings

of palette knife and credit cards.

The "goal" I set for this work:

mostly middle and light values.

"BLOOP!"

"Burst"

is the word this week on

Illustration Friday.

yogadoodle

Another Corel doodle 'cause I'm in the groove.

"IMAGINATION"

For

Illustration Friday.

Corel Painter 12.

IBIS design...

Corel Painter.

I love having no india ink on my fingers

after drawing.

This started out as three black blobs

and then the birds were removed with different brushes.

Red Headed Woodpecker

Woodpeckers knock the little round vents

out of our second-story soffit.

We dangle old CD's from the rough openings

to keep them away until something more permanent 

can be arranged.

Heron

A heron drawn in Corel Painter.

And again with a little color.

Only the black and white version will be used in the book.

monarch butterfly

A monarch butterfly

for Bill's book.

Corel Painter has a neat-o mirror effect brush

to speed things along.

Some faux-scratchboard

around the edges loosens up the symmetry.

My procrastinations on this project have weighed on me.

I dreamt I was in my childhood's California kitchen

(with a childish Mickey Rooney!)

looking out on branches covered with these butterflies.

There are monarch butterflies there, too.

They are celebrated in pageants along the coast

and swarm by the thousands in Mexico.

IF: "identical"

Corel Painter.

Pelican

Pelican illustration

for

B.'s book.

Corel Painter via Wacom.