A drawing of a pair of beat-up green converse sitting on a black table with a dashed spiral pattern in the background.

Through Youth

A drawing of isolated people floating in a kite-like structure over waves. 

Quarantine quandary

A graphite drawing of an interior space with a Black-capped Chickadee sitting on a Common Murre's egg.  The background is dark except for a large circle of metallic silver, which resembles the moon, behind the bird's head. 

Take That Back Outside

I had a need to visualize the virus; a need to face the anxiety of this past year. 

Covid-19

A dragon with a little girl saying  I love you daddy

Daddy Dragon

010100000110111011100000111000001111001 is an ink on raw canvas illustration depicting a still life of a poppy flower set on the foreground of the binary-Englilish translation of the word poppy, the most hardy and simultaneouly delicate flower. Flowers represent the renewal of life and connecteion while binary at its core is the most common way that we are relating to life in our current context. 

010100000110111011100000111000001111001

Man playing trombone on streets of New Orleans in French Quarter.

Street Musician, New Orleans

While staying in a rented house in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico I drew and painted these wonderful great-tailed grackles. They came everyday to our pool to drink and bathe. Plus they fascinated me because of all there many calls we'd hear every morning. I have done a series of them walking, flying, stretching, sneaking up to pieces of food left on outdoor restaurant tables. 

Mexican Great-tailed grackle

A drawing of a man caught between youth and adulthood; a slight deprivation of spirit. He looks strong and confident in his pose, but vulnerable through his eyes. He is longing for life as his days stand still while he awaits some unknown excitement.

To Become

A black cat frosts a 3-layer birthday cake he's made from his own original recipe.  Fish tails, flattened mice and bird feathers peak out between the yellow cake layers. 

Cajun's Creation

This art work is a imaginary rendering of a sun-lit area of beneath the surface of the ocean, with flow patterns and sea weed waving. It fits in the general category of 'contemporary impressionism.' It is drawn on paper with colorful markers and gel pens.

Under The Sea

A oil pastel sketch of tuxedo cat with long whiskers and intense yellow eyes focused on the viewer.

Mr McHenry Listening to President Obama

Pandemic pickup

An illustration of a person looking at their smartphone and experiencing anxiety about COVID-19.

Anxiety

Curve of the neck rising from the bottom right to a profile face with purple hair. To the left is a vertical
green line with two green leaves sprouting near the top. Background is a textured pink.

Profile

A color pencil sketch of a Blue Jay's head.

Blue Jay

A graphite and charcoal drawing of a hibiscus flower.

Hibiscus

Conceptual representation of how sight works

Sight

Three big red Honeycrisp apples on brown branches with several green leaves. Four of the leaves have brown spots. These apples were grown in a Minnesota Landscape Arboretum garden. They were delicious!

Honeycrisp Apples at the ARB

Three chainmail-clad warriors stand before an ancient draug embedded in a tree in a gloomy, pale forest. One warrior is offering a returned sword that once belonged to the draug. 

The druźina return the ancestral sword to the ancient draugr

A brightly colored abstract artwork of floating objects on a flat map-like background.

The Rainbow World

Side view of a trans-angel (the emotional self portrait of the artist,)arms and wings outstretched, rising to the stars from earth and bones. Razor wire intangibles the figure but is ineffective at holding the figure back. 5 pointed stars fall from the figure’s open left hand, and rises from the figure’s open right hand.

"Through Hardship: The Stars"

A mushroom with the face of a woman dreams on in a swirling background of color. 

Fairy Ring

The image is a side profile portrait of a woman's head and some of her neck. Her eyes are closed, (long lashes touch her face) somewhat enigmatically - it is not clear if she is sad, in thought, or accepting of a situation, or merely striking a pose. her nose is set low, and petite, right above her mouth. She could be in her 30s or 40s. Her face has very few lines, her lips are closed. Her hair is short, ending at her jaw line in a curl. Her hair has texture marking throughout, implying shadow or color and a fine or medium thickness. Part of her neckline is visable. This work is done in graphite on paper. 

Perseverance 

A color pencil drawing of a girl in a red dress at a train station, pondering over the rural landscape as she notices her train finally arriving.

Just Around the Corner

Image of a personal sitting alone in a dark room

Is it even real?

 A painting of many eyes of different colors and sizes looking in different directions. Around the eyes are muted red, yellow, green, and blue colors, making them look bruised or tired. 

insomnia

A large hand blocking most a face except a partial eye




A nude, slender young Egyptian man sitting in water holding a blue lotus in his hands in an ancient Egyptian setting surrounded by a gold frame inset with gemstones.

In Egypt the Blue Lotus signified the Sun, creation, and rebirth. The lotus rises out of the water, flowering in during the day before sinking below the surface again.

Lotus

Black and white abstract tribal art pen drawing.

Pray

An abstract painting of many colorful lines forming an amorphous blob shape on a brown-gold background. 

Through Youth, 2020

Lucy Treat