Texas Daytripper

"Carol's Art Gallery" or "Manic Alteration"

Also See.... "Flowers Out of Context" (more manic altering)

The Art	The Artist's Rap.... "Every artist needs a good rap." Herman Crichton
Suspension	2 Photos: 1) Sunset on Lake Travis outside of Austin; 2) Moore's Crossing Bridge outside of Austin Suspension of worry and stress.. following the unknown bridge into the pursuit of discovery...
Austin Lightening	"City of Austin" from windows on old city power plant; Stevie Ray Vaughan statue near Town Lake downtown Austin; Lake Travis sunset
Learned Echoes	3 blended views of the old Kent Public School along Interstate 10 in Texas.
Release	2 Photos: 1) Orca whales off the San Juan Island in Washington; 2) Sculpture of woman with arms thrown out in sculpture gardens on San Juan Island. So sometimes I stray from Texas.... Release and empowerment of oneself..... rising above and celebrating....
My Daughter Weds	September, 2004... my daughter, Tamara, weds in the Aspens above Santa Fe. From fitting day .... to pre-wedding smile... to after wedding pose with husband, Doug, on the aspen hills.
Aspen Fire	Aspen Mountains near Santa Fe, NM (during Carol's daughter's wedding - Sept 2004)
Bluebonnet Drive In	Hill Country Bluebonnet Road; store drive in ruins on Highway 90 near Langtry, Tx
Bluebonnet Kitch	Limestone House and Bluebonnets near Marble Falls, TX.
Thorny Homecomings	Abandoned House near Lake Victor, TX; purple thistles in Texas Hill Country
Rainbo Door	"Rainbo is Good Bread" door from small town in Texas Hill Country; flowers from back porch
Sepia Handling	Glass Hand; Sunflower in Hill Country; Sunset in Lake Travis.... all in sepia
Reclaiming	Reclaiming - "going back to our roots" Window with vines on abandoned house near Lake Victor, TX; Sunset on Lake Travis
Equine Patterns	Equine Patterns - Metal Gate outside Las Cruces, NM; Sunset on Lake Travis
Rocking Horse	Rocking Horse - Background rocks from East Texas; Metal Gate outside Las Cruces, NM
Autumn Dawning	Doorway from abandoned house near town of Lake Victor, TX Autumn leaves near Leakey, TX Mountain sunset near Alpine, TX
Lighthouse Altered	Lighthouse, Bridge and Sunset, Outer Banks, NC
Golden Bridged	Bridge on Highway 281, Sunset in Orlando, FL, Wildflowers in Texas Hill Country
Longing	2 Photos: 1) A Texas Hill country scene of rocks and bluebonnets 2) A sculpture found at Laguna Gloria in Austin (added headband and hair flow). He pursued me .... I thought it was too much..... pushed him back.... Met him for coffee before he took off on the back roads one day... realized I should be going with him.... spent the day "longing" to explore with him.... Now I do....
Mountain Perusal	3 photos: 1) window in small town on the way to Alpine, TX; 2) Mountains near Alpine, TX; 3) a sunset sky near Alpine
Catching the Sun	2 photos: 1) Sunset at Lake Travis, 2) Carol's hand Hand emerging from the water to catch the sun as it sets.......
Fire in the Loins	2 photos: 1) Sunrise on a beach at the Outer Banks of North Carolina, 2) Statue from a nearby yard in the woods of the Outer Banks. The original idea was for a woman to help the sun up in the morning. Somehow it ended up portraying a more sexual vision, thus the name....
Melt Down	In the summer of 2003, I ventured out on a hike with my daughter, Tamara, and her fiance, Doug, outside of Santa Fe,NM. It was an unusually hot day for the area... even in July... 95+ degrees. We hiked up to the top of a mesa at mid-day... the sun was scorching, and the small mesquite trees provided NO SHADE! THEN to top it off, we had to climb down off the side of this steep cliff using a ladder that caused extreme knee-shake in these 50 year old legs... especially when I was overheated, which exaggerated the fear of the ladder. After wobbling down the ladder, trying NOT to look at it's bottom perched at the top of a long drop off down the cliff, I scurried into a small cave in the cliff-side, yearning for some relief from the sun. Ever the photographer, I snapped a shot from inside the cave... The base picture in this piece is the cave shot. If you look carefully through the added color explosion, you can see the cliff trail out the cave opening. At the bottom of the photo, I added a shot of the side of my head, and used a Texas flower shot to cape my shoulders (symbolizing comforting myself with thoughts of Texas hill country...bluebonnets and Indian Paint Brush). After pasting in a shot of the intimidating ladder, I "let go" on the "canvas" and released my overwhelming feelings of heat using colors to represent fire, and lightening.
Langtry Gloaming	3 Photos: 1) Old remains of Langtry, Tx. deputy's office, 2) Mountain in the "gloaming" of sunset outside of Alpine, TX, and 3) a sunset sky...
Century Easel	2 Photos: Century plant remains taken near McDonald Observatory in the Davis Mountains, and an Alpine Mountain sunrise. This picture was converted to "posterized" color.
Lighthouse Fly-By	2 Photos: 1) Lighthouse on San Juan Island in Washington; 2) Seagull taken from ferry on the way to the island
Desert Dressing	3 Photos: 1) Santa Fe, NM mesa; 2) Head of flowers on my cousin's bathroom wall; 3) Flower from my cousin's (Glenda Hilley's) yard I added some brush strokes to this combination to portray Mother Nature throwing flowers onto the desert floor ... dressing the desert up for Spring.
Overlook	3 photos: 1) The water and rock are of the Blanco River near Little Arkansas camp ground (closed) outside of Wimberley, TX; 2) The mountain is from the Garden of the Gods outside of Colorado Springs, CO; 3) The statue is of a Native American woman sitting with a basket outside of a restaurant entrance on the way to Lake Travis. I added brush strokes around the head of the statue to create a wild touch of hair cascading over the mountain and river.
Painted Pads	1 photo: Lily pads from a lake in East Texas (taken while in a canoe). Added color to the pads, but not the lily or water.
Wooden Sky	2 photos: 1) small wooden house and tree in the Texas hill country; 2) the background is a wooden deck floor that intrigued me because of the pattern in the wood
Pastel Post	3 photos: 1) small wooden house in the Texas hill country; 2) mailbox near Lake McQueeney, TX; 3) sunset sky
Sunset Panes	2 photos: 1)Sunset scene from my back porch; 2) window panes from my dining room Sunset cloned into curtains....
What Once Was Mine...	4 photos: 1) Looking out from the cave at Hamilton Pool outside of Austin; 2) an old small house in the Texas Hill country; 3) a statue in a nursery in Austin; 4) some Texas wildflowers The head of a woman is faded into the cave wall .... Looking over what once was hers....
Winderful	2 photos: 1) windmill behind a fence; 2) sunset sky Sunset ooze... into canvas cracks...
Stonehenge II	1 photo: This picture was taken of Stonehenge II outside of Hunt, TX (near Kerrville and Ingram). Negative image altering....