Detail of: I Wrote In The Sunroom; Perspective Rendering, Watercolor

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Here you may see one of those white houses with green trim
That are so popular here. Look—I told you!
It is cool and dim inside, but the patio is sunny.
An old woman in gray sits there, fanning herself with a palm leaf fan.
She welcomes us to her patio, and offers us a cooling drink.

The Instruction Manual by John Ashbery

Farmhouses and urban row homes featured a covered porch as a place for the user to sit and relax. With the suburbanization of America, families increasingly used their back patios and gardens for this purpose. However, weather conditions often made patios unusable at times, providing an incentive for families to cover and screen in their patios for privacy and for shelter.

European companies discovered a niche market where customers wanted extra privacy. This meant that blinds and curtains were specially developed to be fitted into the sunroom without damaging the stability of the structure. Another market is for specialised flooring in sunrooms. In earlier sunrooms, floors were often tiled because of the possibility of roof leaks, and cold air entering resulted in the room becoming chilly.

I Wrote In The Sunroom; Perspective Rendering, Watercolor. From the new “Fresh Perspective” collection. 13″x 16″- framed and ready to hang. Sold. My Fresh Perspectives pieces combine years of experience painting perspective renderings with techniques acquired working in other mediums (Acrylics, Watercolor, Colored Pencil).

Back Garden Entrance; The Huntington, Photo. More photos from the Huntington on this blog.

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Two gardens, the front
for beauty, the back
for use. Sleepless now,
I wander through both
and it is summer again,
the long summers of youth
as I trace small paths
in a trance of growth:
flowers pluck at my coat
as I bend down to help,
or speak to my aunt,
whose calloused hands
caressing the plants
are tender as a girl’s.

Paths by John Montague

Pansies in my garden, first year growing pansies.

Mural in downtown San Francisco.

Macro of rose belonging to my neighbor; master gardener. I like this one for the touch of pink in the center.

Mural at Point Reye; this was a garden/restaurant/yoga building, next to a community garden.

Flowers at my daughters graduation a few months ago.

Detail of “And In The Backyard, A Garden; Fresh Perspective.

Ballerinas disguised as flowers in my back yard? I like how the top of them glow.

And In The Backyard, A Garden; Fresh Perspective – a Rendering in Acrylics, Watercolor, Pen & Ink. 10 1/2″by 12″ – framed and ready to hang. Purchase or available in Tiburon August 22nd and 23rd, 2009. Tiburon Art Festival Site • Map • Facebook.

My Fresh Perspectives pieces combine years of experience painting perspective renderings with techniques acquired working in other mediums (Acrylics, Watercolor, Colored Pencil). The basis of each painting begin with architectural details and/or renderings created by hand off of perspective charts then floats off into wallpaper details leaving a dream-like feeling . I am working into larger sizes; all framed and ready to hang.

Contact me directly at AscenderRisesAbove for gallery availability, purchasing requests or to receive notices when new work is available.

Dancing in the Summer of Love, Love, Love; Photo. More Ascender’s Photos

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We were doing a dance called the Catapult.
You always wore brown, the color craze of the decade,
and I was draped in one of those capes that were popular,
the ones with unicorns and pomegranates in needlework.

Nostalgia by Billy Collins

Paisley was particularly popular during the Summer of Love, heavily identified with psychedelic style and the interest in Indian spirituality and culture brought about by the pilgrimage of The Beatles there in 1968.

Paisley or Paisley pattern is a droplet-shaped vegetable motif of Persian and Indian origin, similar to half of the Yin yang symbol. The pattern is sometimes called “Persian pickles” by American traditionalists, especially quiltmakers, or “Welsh pears” in Welsh textiles as far back as 1888.

Paisley Rainbow; Fresh Perspective
Perspective Rendering in Acrylics, Watercolor, Pen & Ink. 9″by 11″- framed and ready to hang. Available in Tiburon. Tiburon Art Festival Site • Map • Facebook

My Fresh Perspectives pieces combine years of experience painting perspective renderings with techniques acquired working in other mediums (Acrylics, Watercolor, Colored Pencil). The basis of each painting begin with architectural details and/or renderings created by hand off of perspective charts then floats off into wallpaper details leaving a dream-like feeling. I continue to work into larger sizes; all framed and ready to hang.

Detail from Sun Bath; (more) From the new “Fresh Perspective” collection

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In a faint line.
I modify to simplify,
Complicate to clarify.

The Story of the End of the Story by James Galvin

James Galvin is the author of several collections of poetry, including a novel, Fencing the Sky (1999); and The Meadow (1992), a prose meditation on the landscape of the Wyoming-Colorado border and the people who live there.

Galvin’s work is infused with the genuine realities of the western landscape, while at the same time not shirking difficult questions of faith, the vicissitudes of life, and shifting intimacies. Poet and critic Mark Tredinnick found Galvin’s work to be “profoundly ecological,” starts from the principle . . . that we are the land’s, not the other way around.”

Galvin has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation for his poetry. For many years he has been on the permanent faculty at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, spending part of the year in Iowa City, Iowa, and the remainder in Tie Siding, Wyoming, where he grew up and still ranches.

I lived and worked in Wyoming for many years so Wyoming/Colorado poets and bloggers always catch my eye.

Something Sublime just returned from a trip to Wyoming.

Cowboy’s Sweetheart lives in Wyoming (Aprons to Wearable art)

Rodrigvitz Style offers many aprons in oil cloth

The Kitchn using rocks from Wyoming to make homemade sauerkraut

Hint creates a treasure box for the Out of the Box exhibition at the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole, Wyoming

Eye Level has the Morans in American Art’s collection, The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone on loan for six months to the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming.

Sun Bath; (see details) From the new “Fresh Perspective” collection
15″ x 19″Perspective Rendering in Acrylics, Watercolor, Pen & Ink. Framed and ready to hang. – Available in Tiburon. Tiburon Art Festival Site • Map • Facebook

My Fresh Perspectives pieces combine years of experience painting perspective renderings with techniques acquired working in other mediums (Acrylics, Watercolor, Colored Pencil).