Watercolor Western Banded Gecko

Part of my Critters of the night series
This little reptile is so delicate that its inner organs and blood show through the lightly scaled skin. So subtle pastell tones combine with the pigmentation of the scales to form a lovely, colorful look.
Watercolor, 11in x14in sold

Itsy Bitsy Spider

Phidippus species, 7in x 11in watercolor

A commissioned watercolor for an Arachnid specialist and bugging friend - and maybe also a nice image for a tree ornament for the eclectic taste? The ornament is a 3in porcelain disk, printed on both sides, for $11.50 to order, email me at mbrummermann@comcast.net 

Paper and canvas prints can also be ordered as usual. Check menu on top for prices, please

Porcelain Tree Ornaments are ready!

I am making little tree ornaments from some of my paintings. They are 3 inch porcelain plaques and the image appears on both sides. The colors and quality are very similar to my popular art tiles. The photos do not do them justice. 
This was our first attempt at making them and the wolf portrait shows that things can go quite wrong. But I will make the wolf work, I like him. 
You can suggest other images from my paintings - not all can be used in a circle, but I will try if you are especially interested in something. I really have to try a landscape with a saguaro ....e mail me if you are interested and want more info mbrummermann@comcast.net
Here is a link to the flickr gallery with all images 

Of course, they are all round, not square, see the bobcat portrait as example
One Ornament costs $11.50, but for a limited time I am offering 10 (assorted) for $100 

New Tile released fro the Holiday Season and new gallery representation

Bright Cholla

My Art Tiles are so popular that I'm adding another image: Bright Cholla. It will be available on my web site and at the Oro Valley Tree lightning Festival December 7 and 8 and at the 4th Avenue Winter Street Fair on Dec 12th to 15th. I am also offering my tiles at both Cactus Wren Galleries, here in Tucson on Kinney Rd and in Tubac on Tubac Rd. That beautiful new Cactus Wren gallery right at the turn-off to the footbridge to Shelby's Restaurant deserves a great shout-out!

Holiday Cards for Birders!

My new edition of Holiday cards is ready! As always, I used my watercolor images and added some Holiday cheer. So if you need a Cardinal to bring you some Holly or Mistletoe from our Pyrrhuloxia, e mail me at mbrummermann@comcast.net! Raven, Harris Hawk and Elegant Trogon are into shiny baubles, Roadrunner makes extra speedy deliveries and the owl-elves are not Elf Owls but Burrowing  Owls. A box of all 7 is $25 plus $4 for shipping and  $1.5 for AZ Tax (only if you are in AZ)

My Naturalists' Holiday collection is also available again this year, so send me an e mail if you'd like those critters!

All my tiles in one flickr gallery

Upon request, I've added some tile images of wildlife and birds. So now there are 30 images for you to chose from. They are here in this flickr gallery 
The tiles are 8x10 inches so not square as in the collage. The price is $44 plus shipping. Within AZ 6.1% sales tax has to be added. I hope you like them!
I will of course offer them at my art fairs (see schedule above) and you can get some at the Cactus Wren Gallery on Kinney Rd south of the Arizona Desert Museum and Old Tucson.   

My new Wall at Tohono Chul

Ready for the winter season at the gift shop of Tohono Chul Park! 
This shop has been a permanent outlet for my art for more than 10 years, but I just brought in new, much larger pieces to fill a nice display spot right across from the shop entrance.

Brewing Storm

In the Sonoran Desert the most saturated colors appear when the horizon darkens with heavy storm clouds, but the sky directly above is still clear and the sun bright and warm. But very soon a heavy wind will spring up, the clouds roll closer, the mountains disappear and rain starts pouring or even hail might come down hard. This September storm brought all of that to our small community of Picture Rocks, including road closures because of flash floods not far from the location of this painting.  These saguaros are some of the name-giving giants of Saguaro National Park West.

The Phippen Western Art Show and Sale in Prescott on Memorial Day Weekend

My booth will be # 72 up front on the walkway!

horizontal images on tiles

I will of course show my original watercolors and canvas giclee prints, but I will also have my super-popular 8in x 10in ceramic tiles.

vertical images on tiles

I even released a number of new images to be printed on tiles, especially for this show. My first AZ landscapes and, since it is a western art show, the Salt River Horses on tile

the new releases

Last Show of the Spring Season

My last Art show of the season will be this weekend. Spring Festival of the Arts, Saturday and Sunday, March 30 and 31, at the Market Place in Oro Valley (off Oracle Road) It's a nice, generously spaced show with the Catalinas as a backdrop. Come visit!

Spring in the desert

Snow on the mountain tops, wildflowers on the lower ridges: the view from Sabino Canyon to Mount Lemmon. This half sheet watercolor is sold, but I just printed a 16 by 24 in canvas that will be available here or at my new gallery, the coop Desert Wren on Kinney Rd

Wildflower Wash a multimedia piece based on my 2 watercolors Desert Wash and Desert Wildflowers. These prints will bring the spring to your house! 

Let me know what you think and contact me at mbrummermann@comcast.net if you are interested

Elegant Trogon - Series Birds in Red

Male Elegant Trogon

Elegant Trogons have been breeding in SE Arizona canyons for years. They like the cavities in the creamy white trunks of our Sycamores. The barking call of the males can be heard every spring and summer. But some are now staying during the winter. They feed on Pyracantha Berries (planted) when the endemic Madrones are bare. This year at Madera Canyon the Trogon shares them with a White-throated Thrush, a singular migrant from Mexico. That one, of course, drives the birding community nuts.  They stand forty people deep around the bush armed with their huge lenses on tripods.

I much preferred to peacefully paint the pretty Trogon ...

Original available framed $325.00

Pyrrhuloxia - Series 'Birds in Red

We usually see a lot more activity of these Desert Cardinals in our backyard. But maybe I am only impatient. So at least I painted one. Watercolor, 7in x 10in 
Original available,  11x14, dark-red wood frame $325
Prints on paper, canvas, and tiles will be available soon.

La Encantada Fine Art Festival ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: "Watercolors became my preferred medium because I traveled so much as a scientist. I could easily fit them on an airplane in my backpack." Born and raised in Dortmund, Germany, water color artist Margarethe Brummermann developed her passion for painting hand in hand with her career in biology. She worked as a researcher and teacher at universities and field stations across Europe and the United States while also dedicating time to her artistic studies at the Academy for Photography and Design in Dortmund and eventually the Scottsdale Artists School. "I often use my paintings as backdrops for my PowerPoint slides. I hope to make my scientific topics beautiful and thus more approachable," says Brummermann. In 2002, she settled in the pristine deserts of the Tucson Mountains with her husband, Randall Kaul, and found a new and unexpected community of welcoming creative minds. "Art is important to Native Americans and I spent most of my weekends on the Navajo and Apache reservations. I was easily welcomed and my new found Hopi friends introduced me to my first gallery here. It wasn't long before I discovered the ever changing, ever evolving, very diverse community around outdoor arts festivals and I was hooked." Brummermann now works for Sky Island in the field of diversity research in SE AZ and Sonora Mexico and her newer paintings reflect this. Her website and blog now act as the perfect platform for sharing both her passions to an even larger audience taken by the charm of blending biology and art. Visit her blog now at http://margarethebrummermannwatercolors.blogspot.com/ and see her work in person at the La Encantada Fine Art Festival on January 19 & 20 at La Encantada.