Hummingbird

Happy Friday! Hummingbird style.  You have to love this crazy bird which science can barely understand.  Science does not understand how it can fly aerodynamically, and can barely understand how its heart can beat so fast and how it can fly so far.  Some fly across the Caribbean Sea from the U.S. to Central America for the winter.

More Japanese Wood Block Prints

More winter scenes done with markers.  I wanted to capture the sky, the snowflakes, and the water.  This is another experimental copy of the japanese master, Kawase Hasui  SO this is a little bit of a challenge in marker, but the original master had this scene carved out of a wood plank for each color.  That is the truly amazing part.

Japanese Wood Block art prints - Kawase Hasui

This is originally a wood block print by Japanese artist, Kawase Hasui.  The Japanese wood block prints revolutionized the European artists outlook 120 years.  The Impressionists were influenced by these wood block prints.  Even now, an artist can see if they can reproduce the techniques to learn from a master.  This is what I did.  Above was done as an experiment with art markers and white gouache paint for the snow flakes.  So you can see the abstract shapes of the foreground snow in to the middle snow.  The same design considerations go into the snow cover and branch shapes on the pine tree.  I hope to be able to capture snow and design as well as Hasui did.

Henna Hand

The Henna tattoo is a common ritual in many countries and cultures.  I know of its use for the Bridal party in weddings in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.  While temporary, it is beautiful and unique.  The artists who apply the dye for the bridal parties are unique and creative in their chosen filed.  This is a marker drawing to capture one design in a more permanent mode.

Still Life

Happy Sunday, Olympics are over so everything can get back to normal.  This is an oil painting of a vase and flowers.  Enjoy!

Family Affair - Part Deux

This is a SCUBA diving painting done by my father, Richard Suitts.  I seem to have gotten part of my sense of adventure from him and an interest in Art.  He dove back in the early 1960s, i.e. almost pioneer stages compared to today's equipment and training.  He sought to capture his experiences in paint and succeeded pretty well.  He was 26 when he painted this.

Family Affair

This is a painting by my Father, Richard Suitts.  He probably did this around 1964ish.  It is an oil painting of the American Desert, probably of the Book Cliff area near Grand Junction, Colorado.  So Dad passed away in 1966 and my mom remarried to Richard Brandt.  Luckily for me, he raised me as his own.  He is an artist in his soul also and is a photographer.  So we go out on photo safaris and record the world as we see it and find it.