Posted in My Paintings, Watercolor, tagged Extraterrestial Life, Fantasy Art, Watercolor on May 1, 2014| Leave a Comment »
This family group may exist on some planet somewhere in the vast universe. As humans move out into space they will strive to understand the unknown. It is intriguing to try to conceptualize what alien forms of life may look like.
Family Group by Mary P Williams
Posted in Mars, My Paintings, tagged Mars One, Mars. Heidi Beemer on March 4, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Heidi Beemer has announced that she will be taking a one way trip to Mars sometime between 2023-2035. An amazing stance! She will be conducting scientific research there. She and thousands of other people are competing for the honor of going on a space ship, the Mars One, which is being sponsored by a Dutch Non-profit organization. It will be a one way trip of 7 months to reach Mars. The applicants will be training for 10 years … and then OFF TO MARS !
She will be able to get there … but not able to return to earth.
Hat’s Off to Heidi!
Posted in My Paintings, tagged My Paintings on December 31, 2012| Leave a Comment »
“Can You Hear Me?” is a painting about the background noise which surrounds us.
“Can You Hear Me?” by Mary P. Williams
I chose to represent this noise with a roaring sea … between traffic noise, TV noise, and the many sirens, horns, shouts, and low buzzing produced by a city I wonder if it is even possible to communicate on a one-to-one basis. Can you hear me??
Posted in Botanicals, My Paintings, tagged Botanical Painting, California Plants on November 17, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Pomegranates, Persimmons and Roses
Paula’s garden down in the south of California contains a wealth of plants … all kinds and all colors. The garden is terraced and the trees are tall. She planted every plant herself over a period of thirty years. They tumble over each other and under one plant is … another! Avocado trees, tangerine trees tomatoes, sage, … takes your breath away to look in any direction … desert plants, mingled with roses.
Agave Next to Grapevine
A happy heart is the result when you walk around the garden.
Posted in My Paintings, Sierra Nevada Natural History, tagged Butterflies, Language, Mary P Williams, Natural History, Visual Symbols on October 23, 2012| Leave a Comment »
or … Butterfly Calligraphy … or Butterflies and Symbols …
The Language of Butterflies I
There are several butterflies with names suggesting symbols we are all familiar with. There is the “comma” butterfly and the “question mark” butterfly, the “twin spot” and the “sickle-winged”, the “crazy eight” and the “red-disked”. Many have eye-spots intended to deceive their predators. My first painting was an attempt to assemble some of the common symbols and show them on butterflies.
Butterflies II by Mary P Williams
The second was more specific … the patterns seem like graceful, spontaneous writing … if only we could read the messages!!
Posted in Botanicals, My Paintings, Sierra Nevada Natural History, tagged Botanical Painting, Milkweed on October 8, 2012| Leave a Comment »
The Milkweed is the host plant for the Monarch butterfly!
Milkweed by Mary P Williams
In hot August days the pods on the plant mature, dry up, split open and the orderly rows of brown seeds peek out of the pod. Then a vagrant wind picks them out of the pod and hefts them into the heavens where they float with their silk floss. This wind scatters them to the four corners and they are randomly deposited on fertile soil and rocky, hostile lands. The lucky seeds will grow into a handsome plant next spring … and once again supply a beautiful sight as they take to the wind the next August. Perfection!
Posted in My Paintings, tagged Painting, Sierra Nevada, Sierra Nevada paintings, Topaz Lake on September 12, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Summer is winding down … some leisure to paint …
Topaz Lake
here is Topaz Lake in all its splendor … what do you think? Does it capture the feeling of a desert lake?
Tomorrow … maybe Caples Lake??
Mary P Williams 