Cougar Mandala

Cougar Mandala

Mom, Pat McReynolds, created two large animal mandalas, this cougar and also a wolf, the background images of which were also used for creation of this blog website.  In her 80s, mom focused her art on memorializing endangered species of animals, insects, plants and...
Arctic Norway 4000 BCE

Arctic Norway 4000 BCE

This is an oil painting that mom, Pat McReynolds, painted after one of her trips to Norway.  Her father Jose (Grandaddy) was from the island of Negros in the Philippines and her mother Ruth (Nana) was from Norway.  Mom loved to travel, visiting the Philippines and...
Woven Effect Painting

Woven Effect Painting

Following art therapy principles, inspired by Rothko, using bright red and green complementary colors, I was looking to achieve a different effect like a...
7 Steps to Abstract Expressionism

7 Steps to Abstract Expressionism

Mark Rothko’s 1958 formula for his artwork: 1.    A preoccupation with death, of ones’ own mortality … tragic art, romantic art, etc. 2.    Sensuality, our basis of being concrete about the world, a lustful relationship to things that exist 3.    Tension, either...
Copy of Henri Matisse’s The Dance

Copy of Henri Matisse’s The Dance

Here’s my copy of The Dance by Henri Matisse – everyone has their own style of course but copying the masters is one way to learn how to execute a particular art style … I love the symmetry and simplicity – the image evokes such exuberance in its...