An encaustic (hot wax) painting of a stormy blue ocean and sky with whitecap waves and rough waters.

Through Rough Waters

Closeup of a female face with blue-green skin. Eyes wide, forehead furrowed, mouth open; a bright red tongue sticks out among sharp teeth. Snakes intertwine as then cascade from the woman's head, two heads visible among hundreds of tiny scales.

Medusa

Grey / black abstract highly textured painting, with black and muted, greyed colors in background, which has a subtle horizontal orientation. It is broken or divided by diagonal lines breaking into the space, angled left, from the top and the bottom.

Interruption

Pondering with hopeful anticipation, chin on hand, eyes wide open

A portrait painting of a woman of color, with cold rings, gold necklace, and afro. The background is textured golden brown 

Study of a Woman

Floral with bold color with strong value contrast and dew drops.

Spring

A vibrant splash of colors which symbolizes the blooms after a rainstorm. An abstraction of nature’s beauty. 

After the rain 

A painting of a woman outdoors. She is wearing a pink dress and headwrap.

Untitled

waves of color values crashing against themselves, reflexive bewilderment

e this

7 color design on a grid, in a 7 x 7 format, colors inspired by a flower garden, with a gold-painted frame.

Number Theory (49)

A still life of three mottled green pears in a dark brown wooden bowl, all dramatically lit from the upper right against a black background. The trio bursts forward with light, color and vibrancy in their somber setting; they are life, freshness and beauty in place of darkness

Notta Pair of Pears

Portrait of two young sisters at the swimming pool in brightly colored swim suits

Swim Sisters

This piece was inspired by a fall trip up north, stopping at an overlook of Grand Portage on a dramatic cloudy sunrise. This piece is layered with colors and heavy gloss medium on a canvas board. With the many layers of color and medium I hoped to create a rich deep perspective of this superior view.  

Grand Portage Dramatic Sunrise 

A little boy peers out of the dark at the colorful, shiny ornaments taken down from the  tree. 

Taking Down the Tree

A painting of the two sides of the artist — one side black/one side white — against a deep red background. The white side is holding a snake/the black side is holding a sword. The figure processes wings engraved with symbols. 

The Androgynous Kingdom

An abstract painting, using thick textured oil paint, of earth tones, in browns, oranges and red, mixed with blues, and white. A close up of eruptions and changes in the landscape of this planet.

Earth Changes

A painting of a tree line silhouetted against a glowing coral and violet evening sky. The foreground is a softly lit grassy hillside. The use of palette knives and brushes create marks that add a rich textural dimension.   

Going Home

A painting of a Monarch Butterfly with an exotic background with a hint of abstract in the corner.

Monarch

The discolored wolf with small beady black eyes making the wolf look tired and weary, and the background empty showing a lack of hope. 

Into my eyes 

A cropped view of a painting of a sitting black and brown dog on a white background, with her head and tail just out of shot.

Ruby in Rough

An abstract painting based on a collage of orange and violet early morning light with the broken landscape of a Cannon River flood in Minnesota.

Small Trembles 8

Abstract watercolor painting of a crazy quilt 

Crazy Quilt #2

A painting of a slender black cat with green eyes sitting in a bright white space looking pensively at the viewer.

Love Eternal

A colorful painting of a collection of flowers in the shape of a rabbit surrounded by a field of green.

Floral Hop

A self-portrait surrounded by an orange textured background

Bucket hat

Icon of red-caped Saint George on a regal white horse, spear in hand, attacking an open-mouth green dragon figure located in the lower right side of the icon. Modernized green and pinkish mountains are to the left and right sides, with a gray castle window, noting the protected princess in the right-sided background.

Saint George

A watercolor painting of a skull shaped planter used to serve in the shell peanuts. Muddy shading with small peanut shell textures.

Peanut Brain

A colorful, expressionistic painting of a lone turquoise dock on a lake with the early morning sunrise filling the horizon with soft pink and pale yellow light offering the viewer an opportunity for quite self-reflection and a spiritual experience with nature. 

"The Dock"

a painting of a nude figure, huddled, with extended leg, and hugging the other knee-- in light atmospheric purples and yellows with delicate graphite lines delinating the figure and surrounding room.

"Close to You"

A painting of abstract flowers on pale-green ground in pale and deep golds and rusts and black.

Through Rough Waters, 2020

Annie McArdle