A watercolor painting of geometrical shapes, fitting together to resemble a mosaic. Each shape is a different color, and fragments of a poem are glued onto the shape to create a whole.

Blocks

A 3D painting of the sprawling green landscape of Ireland with touches of yellow and blue to capture the beauty of the island. 

Irlanda #5

A loose watercolor sketch of small boats. One boat has a bright orange door that is reflected in the water.

Boat with an Orange Door

A painting of a swan using only a fan-brush with grey, white, pink and touches of gold. 

Fan Brush Fun

A portrait of a dog investigating his world.

Untitled

9 dots superimposed on 9 larger colorful circles that are evenly spaced in 3 rows.  Use of mixed hues and values with a range of relationships on the color wheel.

Relationships

Serene

Winter Bliss: A winter scene painted in shades of blue, green and white depicting a distant pine forest with expanse of snow in the foreground and a blue sky with scattered clouds. 

Winter Bliss

A white square with a mosaic circle made from multicolored dried paint chips.

Belly Button Lint

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

A painting of a hummingbird at a red hummingbird feeder.

Cabin Hummingbird

A painting of the inner spirit emerging to escape the pains of the past.

Emergence from yesterday

A painting of two floating lanterns against a vibrant sunset of purples and golds.

Floating lanterns

A painting featuring a light-gray, asymmetrical rhombus that is broader at the bottom. The rhombus shape is bisected vertically by a band of gold and is bordered by parallel bands of crimson, gold, and dark green running towards the  four corners of the canvas. A band of teal runs across the bottom.

Study for "Bolo"

Cape Dorset artist Kenojuak Ashevak was an amazing graphic artist who lived from 1927 to 2013. This study is an attempt to learn about and understand one of her works, "Floral Passage," by exploring her composition, proportion, use of color, and use of lines and dots.

Searching for Kenojuak Ashevak

A mixed media painting depicting a quilt in autumn colors of orange and yellow, its individual squares composed of alternating drip lines and circles created by blown paint.

Autumn's Quilt

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

Uptown Autumn

Abstract painting with a Autumn colored background. Centered on the piece is a 90's retro colored rectangle. The rectangle in shaded a bit and seems to be signed in white paint. 

Tribute

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

a painting of a boy who is a lightbulb, lanky arms but not so lanky legs. a background that consists with streaks of light purple, pink, and yellow. he has red shoes and a bronze crown, a few stars and olive green dots accompany him. 

It Will Work Itself Out

A lush watercolor composed of exploding wide, wet blue horizontal strokes with deep red emerging  from the center on a field of muted yellow. 



Early Blues

A Black Labrador on a yellow carpet awakens from his nap.

Gryphon

Mixed media collage using different textures of black, silver and turquoise glitter on a dark background with the phrase "the pain of mental illness is often invisible" just under the sparkly surface.

Under the Surface

A painting of a fjord with mountains and waterfall, done in shades of blue and purple.

Memory of Norway

A painting of a backyard garden with a brick wall to the greey house. The garden is framed by tall lilacs, blue sky, and includes yellow paths, green leaves, small red blossoms, and dark red bushes. The artist is included in the lower left, in a pink shirt and white hat, in a chair.

RaeAnn's Garden

A painting of a vintage toy horse and cowgirl against a red bandana background. 

Queen of the West

An abstract explosion of colors and feelings in turquoise, gold and purple on a day that feels like there will never be any justice in this world. And yet we hope.

No Justice

An acrylic painting of a blue tree with gold leaves at night

If it Was My Thinking Alone

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

Midnight Sun In Norway

Painting of tropical flowers while I stayed inside during the pandemic.

Pink Ginger

"painting of a small, wild bouquet of cosmos flowers in pinks, whites and purples, with soft grey green foliage"

Blocks, 2020

Stephanie Mann