Category: art

I have a lot of collage material from magazines: words, images, colors, patterns. I have a lot of collage material period! I picked out two words that appealed to me today. First came “beautiful.” It almost turned out to be “beautiful [some-other-thing],” but then I happened upon “world.”

I sketched out broadly what I thought I was going to paint, then I just started playing with the brush and paint. No masterpiece, just simple depictions of some of the images I am constantly thinking about after our mountain trip out west. I am ready for more mountains!

We saw these flowers in Glacier, Yellowstone, and Grand Teton (where I took this photo). They look like huge dandelion seedheads, but I couldn’t find out what they really are. It may be difficult to tell in this close-up, but if any of you know what this is, comment below or email me!

I’m not sure “vermilion” quite captures the color of this Artist’s Paintpot in Yellowstone National Park, but it’s the one that came to mind when I saw it.

This doesn’t look like much, but when I walked by it was whisper-screaming steam noises. Weird. Again, Yellowstone.

This was also taken in Yellowstone National Park in the Artist’s Paintpots area.

Yellowstone National Park is a strange place—or rather, it’s a place with many strange features—or, maybe both! This is a bubbling mudpot that sometimes shot mud several feet into the air (be careful out there!). It’s so mono-colored neutral, but makes up for it in activity.

Here are multi-colored rocks in a river also along the Redrock Falls trail in Glacier National Park, Montana. Beautiful, beautiful rocks in Glacier Park.

In our hikes out west this summer we saw lots of beautiful rock. After I took this photo I immediately saw the face in it, so wanted to share it in my color series even though it doesn’t really represent just one color. (Taken on the Redrock Falls trail, Glacier National Park, Montana.)

What you see in this photo is a close-up of just one cluster of smaller flowers on one ray (of 27) on a plant with an umbel of white flowers. (I am trying to sound like I know what I’m talking about!) I am not completely sure, because several wildflowers have similar traits, but I think this is a Cow Parsnip (although it really looks like the flower in this photo that someone is calling “wild carrot“—same thing?). This close-up reminds me of a classic wedding bouquet. We saw it on our hike to Grinnell Lake in Glacier National Park, Montana.