Some of Betsy's Paintings

Early Work
chairs done at age 14
Untitled
Third painting, done at age 14
in Honors art workshop		 SF illustration age 21
Untitled
SF illustration (age 21)

Ladies in Waiting series
Waiting for Daddy
Waiting for Daddy		 Helen of Troy NY

Helen of Troy NY

Family History series
shack
beneath the shack		 detail of shack
Paintings in this unfinished series are to be displayed in geographic relation to each other. Some of the remaining paintings are set up a tree, in the daylily bed, and in the vegetable garden.

Realism
Rock House by Moonlight
Rock House by Moonlight
from a pencil drawing with photo reference

Abuse series
Out on a Limb
Out on a Limb
3 spikes, 3 shrikes, 3 stripes		 Cycles
Cycles		 Falling Sideways into Nothing
Falling Sideways into Nothing

Female Faces series
Gogh Girl Gogh Girl
done in art class with instruction: "don't use flesh tones"

Poems on Paintings series
Yellow Mood
Yellow Mood...
a whim of the moment
finished -- unfinished?
benign decisions now that the moment is past
an isolated experience of transient value
cartoonish outlines reinforce
the uni-dimensional surreality
as disinterest prevails
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