A painting of a man's eye close-up, looking at the viewer.

20/20

Edgewood Park & Natural Preserve, CA

A square oil painting of a drill bit bent at a 90-degree angle, sitting atop a sheet of grid paper. The drill bit is shiny and chrome, and the grid underneath is a cool off-white. 

Bent Bit

An abstract approach to a colorful garden along a walking path on a sunny day.

Garden Dreams

A painting of a blue and green concentric ellipse floating in a red field over a white and gold earth like fragment.

Becoming

Non-representational art from our exhibition titled: At the Edges of Wilderness. Inspired by our time living in the remote wilderness of the Cascade Mountains of Washington state.

Ancient Texts

A stressed and messy 6 petaled flower presenting in hues of violet with random splashes splashes shooting about.

Secrets She Keeps

A happy pink flower with orange seeds blowing in the wind.

Flowers at Papa and Gigi's House

It's lightly raining. A small light green dragon with a gold colored belly and golden eyes crouches on a branch of a lilac bush, hiding from the rain under leaves. Steam is rising from the dragon's nostrils. Heavy drops of rain bend the leaves.

Rainy Day Dragon

A painting of yellow, red, and brown leaves, falling in a blue sky, and piling up on a sidewalk between two buildings.

Uptown Autumn

This is an abstract watercolor painting in mostly browns and blues with some red and orange. The shapes could be fish, or a crowd of anything, massed together, as seen from above perhaps.

The Multitude

An oil painting created en plein air
Of group of sunflowers. It is an Impressionistic work.

Sunflowers in Appleton

The abandoned shopping mall as seen from the parking lot at early evening after a storm.

The Mall

A portrait of a colorful person and a dull expression. 

Dull

This is a painting is not photorealistic but presents a fairly realistic image of a man's hand being grasped by the hand of another man. We see the androgynous face of one of the two cropped into the frame on the right, sucking on the others thumb. Behind them are geometric yellow shapes tinted with pink, and the foreground is blue, also tinted with pink. Multiple Colors were layered on top of each other to create vibrancy.

Hold On Tight And Don't Let Go

Variegated black and white hen with red accoutrements held in backyard with various wooden boards.

Fowl Attitude

Black and white rendering of Birch trees on an unpainted wood panel. 

Birches

A painting of three large rocks off the shore of Lake Superior. The rocks are the focus of the painting with waves splashing against them. The horizon line is near the top of the painting with a clear sky and boat off the in the distance. The water is a mix of light blue with white streaks to show the waves. The two rocks in the front and center are brown and the third rock farthest out is black and dark blue with the light creating shadows on different edges of the rocks.

Lake Superior

Brown feathered raptor's head, orange eye, and blue background.

Alert

Reverie is a vivid, dreamlike representation of a person sitting under a large tree at night with a full moon in the sky. The branches of the tree enfold themselves to form a heart shape and an aura expresses the spiritual energy emmanating from the living thing itself. I used blues and red purples to create an introspective mood.

Reverie

Carving on a "cookie" cut from the trunk of a suburban fir tree.

Salute'

A painting of a river winding through Trondheim, Norway at 2 am under a midnight sun.

Midnight Sun In Norway

A still life watercolor painting of flowers, a vase and two pears with a blue and green motif. Images outlined in black with flowing, vibrant, impressionist style- enhanced with computer color graphics.

Flowers & Pears

Landscape painting of a cliff view overlooking Wyalusing State Park in Wisconsin. 

Fond memories

Earth from outer space is represented on birch plywood with acrylic and distemper paints in earth and cloud colors.  Gouged with a router across this landscape are random curved lines, spray painted aluminum, representing pipelines and channels of industrial waste which are destroying the natural environment.  Upper right of this earth is curved where it meets outer space.

Earth Shard 

This is an image that depicts how Self Conscious people get on Zoom these days. Worrying about how they look. Their nose? Hair? Smile? Ears? Mustache and Lighting! OMG! This medium is not a friendly one although it connects us during these Pandemic Times. The Scrutiny of oneself on Zoom is a distracting Reality of these times.

ZOOM ANGUISH

Oil still life of moor craft pottery on canvas - deep blue with anemones - with cerulean blue background

 Still Life of Moorcroft Pottery Anemonies

A simple wood framed  cottage on the grounds of the Hameau de la Reine, a replica peasant village built for Marie Antoinette.

Cottage, Hameau de la Reine, Versailles

A watercolor painting of a lynx skull in yellow and pink. There are drops of dark magenta paint dripping over and down the eye sockets.

Mother Nature - Lynx

A painting of a young girl walking under a waterfall of surrounded by trees.  Blues and black and greens and white.

20/20, 2020

Jeff Rodenberg