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  • PAINTINGS 1
    • Waterfall
    • Skagit Landscape of the Mind III
    • Red Tail Soaring
    • The Frog Poet
    • Ginkgos & Waxwings
    • Eagle's Pride
    • Spring in Bloom
    • Flower Moon in May
    • Hiding in the Tall Grass
    • Snow on the Beach
    • It Only Takes One
    • Scattered Fans
    • White Circle of Silence
    • Northwest Rain Kosode
    • In the Spirit of Serizawa & Kubota
  • Paintings 2
    • Foxgloves Reaching for the Sky
    • Two Flickers
    • Plum Tree on a Snowy Night
    • Autumn Moon by the Sea
    • Chickadee in Snow
    • Down by the Stream on a Lazy Summer's Day
    • With Hope and Hard Work
    • Towhee & Currant in Spring
    • Sparrow's Spring
    • Autumn Grasses (Oribe Tribute)
    • A Tribute to Itchiku Kubota: Ozette Sunset
    • Cathedral of the Trees
    • Baillie Scott Trinity
    • Raven's Forest
    • Eagle Embraces Her
  • Paintings 3
    • Skagit Scene
    • Dream Birds
    • Curious Crow
    • Hydrangea's Final Bloom
    • Pine Island
    • Maple Leaves in the Stream
    • Plum & Full Moon in Spring
    • Chickadee in the Quince
    • The Four Guardians
    • Circle About the Moon
    • Eelgrass Nursery Rhyme
    • Capercaillies Under Scots Pines
    • Cedar Green Man
    • Serizawa's Kimono
    • Cats United
  • Paintings 4
    • Blue Heron, Red Sky
    • As Autumn Approaches
    • Echizen Crows
    • The Spirit of Fallen Camellias
    • Temple Hawk
    • Blood Moon in January
    • Yellow Flags by the Pond
    • Falling Leaves--Washed Away
    • Goldfinch Dream
    • Autumn Carpet
    • An Eala Bahn (The White Swan)
    • Horse Ema
    • Lucia's Maple
    • Eagles Spring Dance
    • Watts Chapel Tribute Memorial
    • Voysey's tree
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    • Paintings 5 >
      • Camellias in Bloom Woodblock Print
      • Hot Otter Love
      • č’u•? is Seal
      • Loons & Horses
      • Hawk on a Pine 1
      • Elk Along the South Fork
      • Spirits of Ozette
      • Lingcod Guardian
      • Plum Blossoms in Spring
      • Journey Home From Ozette Island
      • Tsooes Sunset
    • Boxes >
      • Rose Tree Box
      • Celtic Bread Box
      • Creature of the Box
      • Skagit Valley Chest
      • Kells Cats Chest
      • Miyamoto's Rice Box
    • Trays >
      • Dragonfly Tray
      • Kaiseki Tray
    • Karakami Square Series >
      • Karakami Square #1: Cherry Tree
    • Screens >
      • Eagles 2-Panel Folding Screen
      • The Four Seasons Screen Series >
        • Winter Screen: Eagle & Pine
        • Fall Screen: Canada Geese & Maples
        • Spring Screen: Cherry Trees & Finches
        • Summer Screen: Swallows & Willow
      • Frog's House Screen
      • Waterfall Screen
    • Peacock Sconces
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  • Dance to the Moon
  • Cormorants
  • Trees III
  • The Guardian
  • Crows at Sunset
  • Night at Marymere Falls
  • Raven's Flight
  • Hunting in the Tall Grass
  • Heron & Cattails IIb
  • Heron Calendar Commission
  • Sinuois (Octopus Commission)
  • Return to the Valley
  • Eagle on a Pine
  • Ballet of the Seals
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AUTUMN CARPET
ACRYLICS ON CEDAR W/RED OAK FRAME
FALL 2014
     While Leigh and I were walking through Pioneer Park this fall, we were struck by the beauty of the fallen Bigleaf Maple leaves covering the black asphalt road.  It was if we were walking on a carpet.  This made me think that it wasn’t too long ago that we were admiring those same leaves still on the trees.  Back in June those maple leaves influenced me to do a painting based on the designs of Lucia Mathews.  Her designs for furniture and wooden objects and made by the Furniture Shop were beautiful and inspiring (see Wendy Kaplan, The Art That Is Life, ©1987, page 20, for a Mathews designed box top showing a multicolored array of poppies).  Now I have been inspired by her, again, to paint the fallen leaves of these maples and to complete the season. I kept the size and the frame design the same as June’s Lucia’s Maple painting.  I made the frame out of red oak using pegged, hand-joined, mortise-and-tenon construction methods.  I used the Japanese technique (shou-sugi-ban) of charring and oiling the oak to finish the frame.

DIMENSIONS:          HEIGHT:  18 inches
                                  WIDTH:  10 3/8 inches


                                                               PRICE $275
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LUCIA'S MAPLE Acrylics on Cedar w/Red Oak Frame Summer, 2014
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Lucia Mathews box top
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