Bottles


These pastels and oil paintings were inspired by the clear blue skies of the Mojave Desert. These works are created just out of the enjoyment of painting something that's hard to see. The transparency of the bottles distorts and reflects the light in interesting ways. Also, if you know what type of bottle that roundish one is, please let me know. I let someone take photos where I live and he ran over it then drove off acting like he didn't. I found that bottle so I don't know what was initially inside it.


Tuolumne Meadows Bottle #2, 11 x 18", pastel on paper, 2024

 


Lonely Cloud Bottle, 12 x 18", pastel on paper, 2024

 


Keep Tahoe Blue Bottle, 7 x 14", pastel on paper, 2024

 


Bottle in Dana Meadows #1, 18 x 24", pastel on paper, 2024

 


Tuolumne Meadows Bottle #1, 12 x 18", pastel on paper, 2024

 


Creosote Infused Oil, 7 x 14", pastel on paper, 2024

 


Bottle and Clouds, 9 x 18", pastel on paper, 2024

 


Bottle and Joshua Tree Mountain, Dawn, 9 x 18", pastel on paper, 2023

 


Bottle and Joshua Tree Mountain, Late Afternoon, 9 x 18", pastel on paper, 2023

 


Curvy Bottle, 18 x 24", pastel on paper, 2024

 


Bottle and 29 Palms Mountain, Sunrise, 9 x 18", pastel on paper, 2023

 


Afternoon Bottle, 9 x 18", pastel on paper, 2023

 


Roundish, 9 x 18", pastel on paper, 2023

 


No Sky, 9 x 18", pastel on paper, 2023

 


Bottle #8, 9 x 18", pastel on paper, 2023

 


Afternoon Light, 9 x 18", pastel on paper, 2023

 


Bottle #11, 9 x 18", pastel on paper, 2023

 


Adobe Reflections, 18 x 9", pastel on paper, 2023

 


Grey Sunrise, 9 x 18", pastel on paper, 2023

 


Bottle Study, 6 x 10", oil on canvas, 2023

 


Bottle #2, 8 x 10", oil on canvas, 2023

 


Bottle #3, 8 x 10", oil on canvas, 2023

 


Bottle in the Redwood Forest, 10 x 18", pastel on paper, 2023

 


Curvy Bottle, 18 x 10", pastel on paper, 2023

 


Bottle and Clouds, 9 x 18", pastel on paper, 2023

 


Bottle and Clouds, 9 x 18", pastel on paper, 2023