SOUTHWEST ABSTRACTIONS
Bonnie Binkert
Southwest Abstractions: Small Works
My absolute favorite watercolor artist, John Marin, was a master at creating atmospheric landscapes, incorporating other media -- graphite, charcoal, crayon -- with his watercolor washes. Like Marin, I have used a limited palette -- deep blues, grays, and greens -- in painting these small, moody landscapes. The paintings portray real and imagined pueblo villages and mission churches. The series also includes "Flowerscapes" -- large-as-the-landscape portraits of cactus blossoms and other flowers natural to the high desert.
Honeysuckle Clouds, Acrylic on canvas,
40 x 30, 2018
Spanish Village, acrylic on canvas, 12 x 12, 2018
Firecracker Cactus
Acrylic on canvas,
10 x 10, 2018 SOLD
Snow Country 雪国
Watercolor, 12 x 16, matted, 2018 See more Japanese-inspired works on my Romantic Abstractions page.
Juan Miguel, watercolor, 12 x 16 matted, 2018 See more from my Border Kids series on the watercolor page.
02/10/18 Cubist Abstractions in Collage. See full series on Mixed Media page.