This is a self portrait. I'm carrying all my paint supplies on a beautiful summer day by the beach where I just finished painting!

Plein Air Painter

An  image of a girl transforming into a astronaut when reading a book in bed, pajamas become a spacesuit and the sheet becoming a galaxy.

Take a look

A portrait of a smiling blue girl, with a red, multi-dimensional background.

Smiling Girl Blue'

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

Two devils, one red and one blue, joined at the hip, raising forked behind a field of flames.

Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don't

From The Backyard Series.  Features trees, plants, a pair of hanging baskets of impatiens and sunlight and shadows.

Light and Shadows

A painting of a lake at sunset with boats floating with the forest in background 

Summer Evening on lake

The deception of an earthly body in a state of existentialism. 

Lite Existentialism

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

A watercolor painting of a blue whale with speckles surrounding it to depict the ocean. 

Deep Sea Blues 

A painting of an owl standing on a branch with the last green leaf left. On the background is starring sky with a bright crescent moon.

Owl On A Branch

Lush blues and an aqua overlay coexist with bright orange and fuchsia layers, with movement apparent throughout each layer.  

Pivot (Let's Talk)

A round shape representing Earth created from a colorful and textured scanned painting palette - the thumbhole filled with blue sky and clouds - all surrounded with black sky, big dipper, Southern Cross and moon in the first phase of an eclipse.

Palette Earth

A monarch butterfly sitting on a purple coneflower on a green background.

Monarch on a Coneflower 

Mixed media, textured roughness, stitching with twine, the background is matte white, the texture of the fabric netting and the twine is pronounced by black latex paint and charcoal.

Restraint

A painting of a late summer rainy day in the prairie. Majestic clouds rolling peacfuly over the little farm and a subtle rain.

Let It Rain

The intense connection between us through the eyes of a lion .

LION

Looking from my window

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

If it Was My Thinking Alone

A painting of a little brown bat suspended in a blue and black starry sky, with an image of its skull inverted below it.

Myotis lucifugus

An oil painting of the floating wooden bridge that crosses Wood Lake Nature Center in Richfield, MN. The greens and golds reflected in the water capture the peace and beauty of late Summer in Minnesota. 

Peace In Wood Lake 

Splatter is a study of color and negative white space. The corners are framed with pink squares and hearts, while the center of the painting fills with color in a lively explosion of warm tones and metallics. 

Splatter

Acrylic painting of a Mickey Mouse type character with a cartoon cannonball body with lighter and lit fuze. 

The Mouse

A weathered painted brick warehouse blends in with the snow. Leafless branches create a halo around the building.

Diagonal Blvd Warehouse

Small white flowers on branches like apple blossoms on a branch

Spring Drsire

Homage to Mary Abbott

A painting covered in block with a gold arch beginning on the top edge, near the right corner. The arch swoops down and to the left as at thins into nothing. Below the gold arch, light pinks, blues, and greens are revealed from behind the black paint in thin streaks. 

Worsening

Painting on 8" wooden plate, of the Washington Monument

Washington Monument with Cherry Blossoms

A girl sitting in a undescript location in front of a poster 

Drink

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

Birches

A painting of white winter wind, on northern lights. Thin golden lines, intertwined in the sky and wind, foresee the beginning of dawn. 

Plein Air Painter, 2020

Michele Combs