A painting in shades of black ink, showing tall deciduous trees in the distance on the left and right, with an opening between.

At the Preserve

A portraiture drawing of a lone doll, against a hazy black charcoal background.

Isolation

Three hour sketch of live model in Spanish dress holding vegetables.

Maria

A contemporary still-life created with a cubistic influence and earth tones that offers a wish for tranquility.

A Toast to Tranquility

An artwork featuring my son Frank using realistic colors in the foreground against a more neutral colored background. The goldfish add a touch of humor.  

Same son, Same sweater, Different dog.

Conceptual representation of how sight works

Sight

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 painting in ink and acrylic of a person meditating in space. 

Meditation Among The Stars

A pencil drawing of a 5-year old girl sleeping on her back in a bed in a cabin in Alaska. The trees outside the cabin can be seen through the window at the head of the bed. The child is sleeping under a patterned blanket and a quilt. Her hair is fanned out from her face. Minnie Mouse is silk-screened on the front of her pajamas. 

Icel Sleeping

Tiger eye

A pen drawing of a surreal idea that women are from Venus

Planet Venus

A tiger is a Chinese Zodiac sign which shows courageous and active people who love a good challenge and adventure in life.

White Tiger

A painting of grasses along a small creek called Mud Creek in the Gunflint Trail. The colors are a vibrant blue water with the grasses green, yellow, orange-red, blue-green. The water is shaped as an s-shape. Painted from live or Plein air.

Peaceful Place

A drawing of a girl with teal hair trapped in a brown cardboard box, trying to push herself out.

Stuck In A Box

A drawing of an apple parer machine, with the apple peel and core forming letters spelling out Apple Parer Enthusiasts, and the border spells out the lyrics to the Johnny Appleseed hymn.

Apple Parer Enthusiast

A painting of a landscape, emphasizing a brown pathway, separating a forest, from a village of black huts, just beyond an apple tree with an axe, near a mysterious black pit covered by sticks, not too far from a lake with an alligator’s tail, which is far from the black mountain where the pathway ends, beneath a red crescent moon in the purple night sky.

A Spectral Omen

A painting of a black women looking over her shoulder at dawn. the sky is purple and orange. she wears a light blue top and a denim scarf. She wears a large square earring with symbols etched into it.

When Solace Overwhelmed Us

A papercut with black and white paper. The shadows are cast by the black paper onto the white paper behind. The images evoke veins in a leaf, with an open circle  at the middle representing beginning and ending : absence and presence

Framing the Light Between

Charcoal sketch of a woman outside the Getty Museum in Los Angeles

Woman at the Getty

An ink painted partial squid extending it's tentacles 

Of Murky Depths 

There are three enlarged abstract faces with hair filling the entire page, they have settle contemplative facial expressions. Two are on the top half of the page and one is in the center of the bottom half. 

Curious 

A bird's head painted in tones of sepia and white looks off the page to the left.

Bird

The image is sectioned into three parts. Read from top, lower left, and then lower right. Top section: Female silhouette walks past a male silhouette leaning against a storefront. Left section: Female enters an alley and the male follows behind her.  The Female faces the male and incapacitates him.  Right section: The male is a shapeless figure being sucked into an abyss.  Close up on the female's eye as explains she's turned the tables on her harasser.

Untitled

An abstract painting with a balanced composition made up of elements of a variety of sizes, using a color palette of subtle and soft pastel hues of pink, green, orange, red and black. A dreamlike image of a wonderland, where a green rabbit-like creature enjoys an autumn party where he talks to a monk on a leaf. A fat pink bug lady lights up cherry-like lights. Mr. Green fish swings his arms to dance and dance. Pink semi-transparent jellyfish fly all around the canvas singing and dancing.


The Wonderland

A botanical rendering of a pink/red poppy flower and flower bud. There is an unidentified blue flower as well.

Poppies

Four sketches: two cathedrals, one house, one lighthouse

Pen and Ink travel sketches 2013-2018

A drawing of a woman, cross-legged on the floor, hugging her baby in a warm embrace. The gold circle echoes the womb's protective barrier.

Unconditional

 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 mouth eating some eyeballs. The world being eaten like a meat ball. Spaghetti noodles hanging between white teeth. 

Tastes Good

Silhouette of a Peony 

A simple line drawing of a rowboat on the water. No passengers or oars, only an empty seat. there is a trail of lightbulbs underwater showing motion by their placement as being pulled behind the boat attached by cords from the inside of the boat to sockets on the bulbs. There are eight of them trailing behind underwater at various lengths of about 12 to 18 feet back and 5 to 8 feet deep. Only the boat has color. The slats of the boat above water and the interior of the boat are colored with spot colors of brown and ochre. Below the water line, the slats of the boat are ultra marine blue and teal. The boat is placed to the left of the page. Although the lightbulbs underwater suggest motion, the boat itself is quite still. The date of Sept 12, 20 is stamped on with a rubber stamp under the water to the right, preceded by the word documented. It is signed on the lower left.

At the Preserve, 2020

Kristine Burton