Cuba-Baby Ballerinas, pastel-Bohoy

In Cuba-
With their tutus and tights, shoes and totes, outside Laura Alonso's ballet school, baby ballerinas waited for their turn to dance.


Pastel, 8x10, [original SOLD-Florida]
Original sold but print available:
11x14 print in black 16x20 frame  
[Gicleé fine art print is embellished by the artist, therefore one-of-a kind & numbered]
$225 + shipping

Figs,pastel,Bohoy

It all started with a trip to home Depot to get hardware. 
Next thing- we were transporting a fig tree home in our little car.
I had always wanted a fig tree to accompany our lemon trees and to pretend I am in Italy- in New England.
It was marked way down due to scrawniness. The only one there, and all alone. One little stalk with leaves puffing out. Into the herb garden it went, next to the rose tree, in the full sun. It grew. It was happy. 
But not as happy as I was when it sprouted many little buds-- that became figs. Real figs. Like we had in Italy. Like my Grandpa's. Mamma Mia- one day one was big enough to pick. And eat! With a slab of Brie. Cosi felice! Here it is.
Pastel  5 x 7  $125.

Canned flowers

If we could only can the summer flowers.
'Put them up' for the winter.
When things are gray, or blue-
we could open the jar; 
smell the perfume,
touch the beauty, 
and taste the summer.
Food for the soul.
Grandma knew.

Pastel, 5x7, $150.

Sun flowers

Catch the sun in a flower before the frost does. 

Pastel, 8x10, $150.

Kids in Sprinkler, pastel, Bohoy

Last splash!

Squeals of delight.

Sprays of relief.

Or wet tears of regret.

As we wash away the summer.

 

Pastel, 5x7, $75.

Rapunzel, pastel, Bohoy

Rapunzel, Rapunzel 

let down your hair.

Yesterday a child; now a tween or teen.

Yesterday a tomboy; now girly girl.

Pastel "Natalie", 5x7, NFS

Beach Treasures, pastel Bohoy

Girlfriends. Mother and child. Time alone. Sparkling sea. Soft sand. Sails. Shells, crabs, and other things.
   All- beach treasures.

Pastel, 8x10
[SOLD- New York]

Boy with cat

Jack.

And his cat.

The Prince.

A fluff of white.

In hands so tight.

Who's purring who?

Pastel, 8x10, NFS 

[Portraits of people and pets available. Contact me.]

Cool

It's summer.

It's hot.

Be cool.

Watercolor, 4x6, $40.

Cuba, lady in white

One of the religions in Cuba is the African American Santería "worship of saints" which blends elements of the Catholic Church and West African beliefs. After their initiation, participants must wear white from head to toe for one year as a symbol of purity. 
 
This woman sitting on the wall outside the Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de Regla (Church of Our Lady of Regla- the Black Madonna and "African goddess of the sea") is wearing all white.
 
Had she just finished initiation, or was she just a lady dressed in white with parasol?

[From a trip to Cuba]
Watercolor, 8x10, Original SOLD [Alabama] 

Available: 11x14 print in black 16x20 frame

[Gicleé fine art print is embellished by the artist, therefore one-of-a kind & numbered]
$225 + shipping