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Beach

Monday, January 2nd, 2012


Oil on wooden panel, 45 cm x 45 cm

This picture is shown in a juried exhibition at the Dennos museum in Traverse City, MI until April 1st celebrating the museum’s 20th anniversary year.

The ‘seascape’ below was done as a study for the painting shown here.

seascape

Friday, September 30th, 2011


2011_03; 11×14 inches, oil on panel

In September, this small study was shown in a juried exhibition in Frankfort, MI.

blauer Fetzen

Thursday, June 23rd, 2011

oil on board, 18 inches x 24 inches

First painting done in spring 2011. Northern Michigan is now our home.

Snow in the Dunes

Saturday, July 31st, 2010

snow_Esch-beach
oil on maple panel, 40 cm x 50 cm

Improvised from a photograph taken near Otter Creek in the Sleeping Bear Dunes

meditation

Monday, July 5th, 2010

Meditation

Two oil paintings, each 12 x 12 inches

Different forms of meditation, quiet and whirling.

waves wogen vagues

Monday, November 30th, 2009

ravenwave

Practicing painting a wave

yellow canoe

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

yellow canoe

12 x 24, oil on board

A montage combining images from Michigan, New Mexico and the Pacific Northwest

Fanciful

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

On this blog, we don’t discuss weirdness of politics. Instead, below, find weirdness as a result of photoshopping:

Moonlight:

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beaver activity

Thursday, January 11th, 2007

Do you see this as
Near completion?
Destruction?

Do you see an almost finished task?
Do you see destruction?
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my first try

Wednesday, December 27th, 2006

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To illustrate a simple poem, I went to a textile shop in the old garment center of Manhattan and bought the dull yellow linen for the background and patches of colorful silk. Troels was doubtful when I showed him the mix of colors and announced that they would turn it into a wall hanging (40 x55). Now, a few years later, he still likes the outcome.

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