David Cowles ART

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Buck Creek Shallows [SOLD]
Clay County, North Carolina (12/15/09)
The cold valley stream widens before it diverges for a brief period, forming a small island. Exposed rocks of all sizes, moved downstream by the last heavy rain, strain the shallows before the water drops down to a deep and scouring curve. The original is 36" wide and 24" high. The original medium is acrylic paint on canvas board.

Harriman Longshadows
Tallahassee, FL (12/15/09)
Harriman Circle Park in Betton Hills contains a rounded pond surrounded by flat lawn area. Oaks and pine trees cast late afternoon shadows that stretch across the road. The original is 12" x 12". The original medium is acrylic paint on canvas board.

Kathy's Drive [SOLD]
Leon County, Florida (12/14/09)
An old asphalt drive, shaded by live oaks planted by Katherine Cowles, is a rhythmic path that provides a transitional experience to a home destination. This thirty year-old vision and gift of a tree canopy is only now fully realized by other generations. The original is 28” wide x 22” high. The original medium is acrylic paint on canvas board.

Mission Plaza [SOLD]
Tallahassee, Florida (11/25/09)
A view across the historical gathering plaza area of Mission San Luis, now interspersed with magnolia, hickory and live oak trees, is focused on the reconstructed church. An estimated 900 mission residents are buried there. The original is 60” wide x 36” high. The original medium is acrylic paint on stretched canvas.

Saint Marks Hammock
Gulf Coast, Florida (11/06/09)
Adjacent to the Saint Marks Lighthouse, this nearby section of coast is a marshy beach front covered with floating grass and driftwood. This salty strand is filled with cabbage palm, scrub oak, cedar, salt bush and rushes. Only black, white and brown colors were used. The original is 30” wide x 15” high. The original medium is acrylic paint on canvas board.

Backyard Field
Leon County, Florida (11/05/09)
Long winter shadows cast dappled patterns over a grassy field. The wheat colors of broomsedge and bahiagrass fill the bottomland and fence rows - in front of planted pines. The rich blue sky, intermixed with clouds, completes the background. The original is 16” wide x 20” high. The original medium is acrylic paint on canvas board.

Buck Creek Road
Clay County, North Carolina (10/31/09)
This single lane gravel road, with turnouts, hugs and curves with the base of the mountains where rhododendrons grow among exposed boulders. Groundwater trickles out of the mossy earth and continuously seeps across the quiet road, adding an occasional splash as you crunch along the gravel with the windows down. The original is 30” wide x 20” high. The original medium is acrylic paint on canvas board.

Old Farm Channel [SOLD]
Leon County, Florida (10/23/09)
This narrow stretch of a stream-fed freshwater lake connects two areas of open water. The banks, illuminated by the morning sun, are lined with vines, maples, willow trees, low aquatic vegetation and floating debris. The trees in shade cast dark reflections in the water that mingle with the sunny patches of hardwood. The original is 30” wide x 24” high. The original medium is acrylic paint on stretched canvas.

Oyster Cut
Apalachicola, Florida (10/17/09)
Within the productive waters of the Apalachicola Bay estuary, a boating channel is bordered by a shorelines of soft rush. A small uninhabited island stretches across the horizon. The original is 30” wide x 20” high. The original medium is acrylic paint on canvas board.

Wall Pond 1980
Leon County, Florida (10/14/09)
Does this look familiar? I have painted this before. This clay-bottom farm pond is one of the sources for the Saint Marks River... photo taken in the 1980's. The original is 24” wide x 18” high. The original medium is acrylic paint on canvas board.

Buck Creek Island [SOLD]
Clay County, North Carolina (10/8/09)
A foot bridge spans the valley stream, but you can wade across the shallow white water to the grassy island. The original is 24” wide x 18” high. The original medium is acrylic paint on canvas board.

Dead Lakes Sunrise
Wewahitchka, Florida (10/2/09)
The still West arm of the Dead Lakes reflects a warm sunrise sky intermingled with trees, stumps and shadows. The Dead Lakes were formed where the Apalachicola and Chipola Rivers converged on a cypress swamp. A temporary past flood of salt water killed the cypress trees leaving only their stumps. The original is 24” wide x 18” high. The original medium is acrylic paint on canvas board.

Indian Lagoon
Gulf Coast, Florida (9/25/09)
The quiet brackish waters of the bay at the Indian Pass peninsula are an estuarine patchwork of wetland, rushes, depressions, strands, and sloughs. This particular area looks across a narrow channel to a small island full of cabbage palm, cedar, pine and salt bush. The original is 10” wide x 20” high. The original medium is acrylic paint on canvas board.

Saint Vincent Sand Dune
Gulf Coast, Florida (9/24/09)
Saint Vincent Island, an uninhabited barrier island and wildlife refuge, contains sand dunes built and sculpted by the wind. This dune is held together with the salt-tolerant sea oat species. Shells and driftwood are abundant due to the lack of human activity. The original is 20” wide x 16” high. The original medium is acrylic paint on canvas board.

Port Saint Joe Bay
Gulf Coast, Florida (9/12/09)
One of the spots of North Florida where you can get a really good coastal view of the Western sky, this sunset is framed by a stage of pines and cabbage palms. The shore line and shallow water of the bay reflects the indirect glow at dusk. The original is 18” wide x 14” high. The original medium is acrylic paint on canvas board.

Little St. George Bay
Gulf Coast, Florida (9/09/09)
Swift currents and winds at the Eastern end of the uninhabited Little Saint George Barrier Island (next to Saint George Island) form the dunes and beach. Low energy bay-side shorelines are usually grassy and flat. A naturally occurring fire on the island had just days ago burned and was evident by the brown pine canopy and scrub. The original is 20” wide x 10” high. The original medium is acrylic paint on canvas board.

Bradford Shallows [SOLD]
Tallahassee, Florida (9/6/09)
The green summer growth of the cypress trees contrasts with the faded grasses, which had recently flushed on the dry pond bottom, and are now withering from the normal water depths. The original is 36” wide x 24” high. The original medium is acrylic paint on stretched canvas.

Monastery Field [SOLD]
Clay County, North Carolina (9/6/09)
A secluded site of an old monastery (not far from Buck Creek Road) that is now a meadow with emerging tree seedlings, is set on the bottom slope of a National Forest mountain. Fields of grasses, wildflowers, berries and other herbaceous growth are intermixed with old fence-rows and an occasional remnant apple tree. The original is 14” wide x 11” high. The original medium is acrylic paint on canvas board.

Lake Hall Uplands
Tallahassee, FL (9/1/09)
The rolling terrain of a recreational trail at Maclay Gardens slopes to the southern bank of Lake Hall. Towering pines loom over a hardwood and magnolia understory. The original is 14” wide x 18” high. The original medium is acrylic paint on canvas board.

Buck Creek Dam [SOLD]
Clay County, North Carolina (8/25/09)
Boulders of many sizes were placed here years ago, along a flatter section of the roadside creek (that eventually contributes to Nantahala Lake) to raise the water level to a slow moving waist-height. Trees like poplar, ironwood, maple, birch and sourwood grow along the bank. The blue-green colors of hemlock trees fill the background beyond an open field. The original is 36” wide x 24” high. The original medium is acrylic paint on stretched canvas.

Alligator Pool [SOLD]
Tallahassee, Florida (8/20/09)
You can't swim in this pool... along the Junior Museum boardwalk, where aquatic plants and cypress trees provide cover for the resident alligator. The orange and red colors of the dead foliage are illuminated in the shallows. The original is 20” wide x 16” high. The original medium is acrylic paint on canvas board.

Gulf Dusk [SOLD]
Indian Pass, Florida (8/6/09)
This shoreline reflects the last orange glow of the day - just before darkness. Cape San Blas would be just over the horizon. The original is 10” wide x 8” high. The original medium is acrylic paint on stretched canvas.

Plantation Field
Grady County, Georgia (8/5/09)
Near Cairo, this property has been farmed and maintained for hunting quail and deer. The late fall blue sky is a crisp background to the mix of deciduous broadleaves, evergreen pines and low brushy fields - regularly mowed and burned. The original is 24” wide x 18” high. The original medium is acrylic paint on canvas board.

Buck Creek Falls [SOLD]
Clay County, North Carolina (8/5/09)
This is one of my favorite vacation places of the roadside creek that eventually contributes to Nantahala Lake. The morning sun is perched in an upstream clearing, not yet warming this rocky turn, where rhododendrons drape over carved-out trout pools. The original is 24” wide x 18” high. The original medium is acrylic paint on canvas board.

Bradford Cypress Pool [SOLD]
Tallahassee, Florida (7/31/09)
A stand of cypress trees articulate a curving shoreline and pool of open water in the Lake Bradford shallows (from the Junior Museum boardwalk) where the aquatic condition typically fluctuates from a high level, such as shown, to a mud-cracked dry floor. The original is 48” wide x 12” high. The original medium is acrylic paint on stretched canvas.

Wayah Roadside [SOLD]
Macon County, North Carolina (7/28/09)
The curving National Forest road (on the way up to Wayah Bald) contains rock outcroppings and openings like this one where wildflowers thrive in the sunlight. The original is 14” wide x 11” high. The original medium is acrylic paint on canvas board.

Below Dry Falls
Oconee County, North Carolina (7/28/09)
A view of the Cullasaja River Gorge (near Highlands) is framed by summer shades of the surrounding Nantahala National Forest and distant landform shrouded in fog. The original is 24” wide x 36” high. The original medium is acrylic paint on stretched canvas.

Dry Farm Pond
Leon County, Florida (7/23/09)
A shady pine plantation at dawn contains a natural depression with a settled fog and tree-line in the background. The original is 28” wide x 22” high. The original medium is acrylic paint on stretched canvas.

Sandy Creek
Leon County, Florida (7/23/09)
Leaves, shadows and reflections portray patterns on a creek, stained with organic matter, in a close-up perspective of the landscape. The original is 28” wide x 22” high. The original medium is acrylic paint on stretched canvas.

Afternoon Picnic
Tallahassee, Florida (7/21/09)
This is an autumn view from the shore, at the recreational area of Maclay Gardens, looking across Lake Hall. This freshwater lake has deep open water - surrounded by wooded upland garden areas, park land and residential property. The original is 30” wide x 22” high. The original medium is watercolor on paper.

Dawn Indian Pass Bay
Gulf Coast, Florida (7/17/09)
Sunrise on the shallow bay with masses of aquatic rushes in the foreground. The original is 10” wide x 8” high. The original medium is acrylic paint on canvas board.

Bradford Cypress Edge
Tallahassee, Florida (7/16/09)
A finger of Lake Bradford (from the Junior Museum boardwalk) shows layers of open water, woodland, marsh-grass, cypress trees and swamp titi shrubs. The original is 36” wide x 24” high. The original medium is acrylic paint on stretched canvas.

St. Teresa Sea Grass
Gulf Coast, Florida (7/9/09)
Most of the architecture in this area is nestled within pine and scrub - obscured from view. Several ages of sea grass have washed up on this gently curving coastline. The original is 28” wide x 22” high. The original medium is acrylic paint on stretched canvas.

Indian Pass Slough [SOLD]
Gulf Coast, Florida (7/8/09)
Roadside cabbage palms line the bank of a brackish creek and marsh, casting crisp winter-day shadows. Higher land in the background contains a treeline of oaks and pines. The original is 28” wide x 22” high. The original medium is acrylic paint on stretched canvas.

Cape Ridge
Gulf Coast, Florida (6/25/09)
Perched atop an old dune at Cape San Blas, the view toward Port Saint Joe bay is filtered through a stand of pine trees. The original is 16” wide x 20” high. The original medium is acrylic paint on stretched canvas.

Saint Marks Lighthouse [SOLD]
Gulf Coast, Florida (32" x 40")

Lake Bradford Lowland
Leon County, Florida (40" x 32") scene A, B & C

Evening Lake
Representation (20" x 32")

The Back Waters
Shallow waters of a clay bottom lake in north Florida transition to grassy flat areas near the forest edge. The original is 28” wide x 34” high. The original medium is tempera paint on museum board.

Dusk Lake
Rolling hills and evergreen trees reflect on the quiet water of a farm pond at dusk.
The original is 32” wide x 20” high. The original medium is tempera paint on museum board.

Coastal Autumn
The tropical sun sets down on a small bay at the end of the warm season. Long shadows and shoreline grasses compliment the bold colors of the sky.
The original is 32” wide x 20” high. The original medium is tempera paint on museum board.

Brackish Palms
There is plenty of sun at midday warming a gulf coast shoreline where stands of palms mingle with a brackish lagoon. The original is 28” wide x 22” high. The original medium is acrylic paint on Canvas board.

Valley Floodway
The spring rain collects on a valley floor to form seasonal flooding. The original is 39” wide x 30” high. The original medium is tempera paint on museum board.

Leonard Farm Road
An old asphalt driveway is skirting a retired hayfield arranged below the Western sky.
The original is 30” wide x 20” high. The original medium is tempera paint on museum board.

Birch Creek
Representation of a Northern summer creek with heavily wooded birch trees among the rich and moisture-laden forest floor.
The original is 23” wide x 18” high. The original medium is tempera paint on museum board.

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