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ABWAL 🏳️‍🌈 🌱

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ABWAL 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 @abwal.bsky.social · Jun 28

Paul and Charlie
(2) 11x14x2 inches
acrylic on canvas
Paul 2025

#painting

A set of portraits of two men on a yellow background. Both men have on dark blue shirts. Both men are bearded with white-gray and matching hair. The men are older. Strong presence carried in their eyes.

ABWAL 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 @abwal.bsky.social · Jun 3

Into The Field
(3) 12x24x1 inch panels
oil on canvas
Charlie and Paul
initial collaboration 1983

#painting

A field of exploding colors: honey-gold -amber, crimson, olive-dark-green, light-orange-tangerine strewn with white under a sky filled with aqua-blue-violet against a camouflage of golds, amber, mint-greens flowing with violet-blue 'faeries'.

ABWAL 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 @abwal.bsky.social · May 14

Last Day
(3) 5x7x1 inches
acrylic on canvas
Charlie and Paul
2017

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Set of three 5x7 inch paintings creating a panoramic beach scene on a bright day with a windy-blue sky, silver-white-foamy ocean, golden-ocher sand beach. The composition is bright and fresh and full of action on a beautiful 'last' day.

ABWAL 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 @abwal.bsky.social · May 14

Autumn
36x48x2 inches
acrylic on canvas
Paul 2024

#painting

A portrait of a mature chestnut tree in a well-maintained park setting. Chestnuts and burrs and leaves are strewn about the ground. The tree's leaves are fading, yellow, green, and sienna. The twisted trunk is in many silver-gray-whites. The sky is crystal blue.

ABWAL 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 @abwal.bsky.social · May 14

Goldenrod And Ironweed
(2) 12x24x2 inches
acrylic on canvas
Paul 2020

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A set of two emblematic portraits of autumn blooming plants: goldenrod and iron weed. The left panel,goldenrod, is a heavy golden bloomed plant oceanside under blue sky with high clouds. The right panel, ironweed, is a full bloom purple plant with green leaves against a golden field under a cerulean blue sky.

ABWAL 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 @abwal.bsky.social · May 13

Summer
36x48x2 inches
acrylic on canvas
Paul 2024

#painting

A gently winding stone path leads the viewer into a garden of flowers, trees, raised beds, white post light, shells, stones and richly glazed ceramic pots. Blooming is in a flood of high summer colors: red, pink, white, purple, blue, green and cinnamon. Details cover the canvas inviting the viewer to stay a while.

ABWAL 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 @abwal.bsky.social · May 13

Ru Ru And The Magic Grasses
18x24x2 inches
acrylic on canvas
Paul 2019

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A white and gray cat is lounging on a mowed path around a garden full of lush tall green ornamental grasses that have seed tassels of champagne-blonde to glowing bronze. The scene is held in by distant emerald green ridges under a deep cerulean blue sky.

ABWAL 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 @abwal.bsky.social · May 13

Roofs
24x18x1 inches
acrylic on canvas
Paul 1997

#painting

An oceanside town under a champagne-white-violet sky. Yellow sand beaches border several rooflines and plotted dunes. The colors of the buildings are blue-gray. The roofs mostly dark forming a structurescape of sorts along a northern curve of the shore.

ABWAL 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 @abwal.bsky.social · May 13

Rebloomer
18x24x2 inches
acrylic on canvas
Paul 2022

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A high-gloss high-textured landscape of a garden scene at the height of lush summer. Stones border a central garden with irises immersed in sun-golden soil. A background of flowering pink and lavender trees under a metallic silver-blue sky. Two white iris stand tall as a focal point showered with pink blooms of a vine climbing to a white pole.

ABWAL 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 @abwal.bsky.social · May 13

Immortality (Reblooming)
24x18x2 inches
acrylic on canvas
Paul 2022

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A portrait of the classic white iris 'Immortality' reblooming in an early autumn. Its leaves are green-blue and smoothly curved in upward thriving growth. In the background a red roof rises this side of a pure light-blue sky bordered by cascades of golden leaves of giant miscanthus grass.

ABWAL 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 @abwal.bsky.social · May 13

Out Back
24x18x2 inches
acrylic on canvas
Paul 2019

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A high-blue-pink sky above a dark ridge of green giving way to the sand roof and chimney of a singular cottage surrounded by many greens of a landscape with a detailed foreground of blue shade below tall grasses. A scarlet-crimson flower vine is splaying blooms in the mid ground. Evergreen branches hold a mugo pine in the dusky-blue foreground.

ABWAL 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 @abwal.bsky.social · May 13

Three Assateagues
(3) 18x24x1 inches
acrylic on canvas
Paul 1998

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Three bright blue oceanscapes of Assateague Island. The horizon is near mid-height of the canvases. One view is straight out over dark blue ocean. Another view is of a pile of conch shells with dotted green dunes up the beach with Ocean City in the very distant distance. The third is a southerly view of a lilac sand beach with distant darker green covered dunes forming an edge of the far-off horizon.

ABWAL 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 @abwal.bsky.social · May 13

Alley View
20x16x1 inches
acrylic on canvas
Paul 2017

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A late autumn view of a spray of tassled grasses in red, yellow and gold with white plumes screening the roofs of a couple cottages in a hilly landscape of umber and warm yellows. A bright composition of natural autumn.

ABWAL 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 @abwal.bsky.social · May 13

Bethany Beach Penthouse Balcony View
20x16x1 inches
acrylic on canvas
Paul 2006

#painting

Historic view of old Bethany Beach, Delaware. A simple small scape of structures from a penthouse balcony view jutting out into the white and blue space of the ocean and sky. Sketched brown-purple roofs cluster at the shore below.

ABWAL 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 @abwal.bsky.social · May 13

Ocean
25x12x2 inches
acrylic on canvas
Paul 2018

#painting

A panoramic view of a sky-ocean scene that is made of high and deep blues. The horizon is midline. The sky is full of smeared-white stretching clouds. The beach has wisps of wave crests touching cream and blush sands. Calm. Light.

ABWAL 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 @abwal.bsky.social · May 13

Morning Mist
12x16x2 inches
acrylic on canvas
Paul 2020

#painting

Portrait of a mature man, silver hair, dark frame glasses, full beard, dark blue-green short sleeve shirt, beige drawstring shorts, bare feet on a stone path surrounded by cobalt blue pots with many white blooms, a post light, purple smoke tree branches and evergreens veiling the unusual opaque blue-violet air. Mists hover about the light.

ABWAL 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 @abwal.bsky.social · May 13

Lemons In A Blue Bowl
11x14x2 inches
acrylic on canvas
Paul 2022

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The second of three studies of a teal glass bowl in full light holding several pure lemon yellow lemons. The simplicity and color are joyous. The shadow is a teal glimmer on a gloss porcelain-white surface.

ABWAL 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 @abwal.bsky.social · May 13

White Wall
12x16x2 inches
acrylic on canvas
Paul 2020

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A vertical white stucco porch wall serves to border a deep ultramarine blue sky and a forest of green growth. A pitch of a red metal roof is veiled in the foreground by a blue pine. The focal point is a red geranium in a clay pot on a weathered wooden slotted table.

ABWAL 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 @abwal.bsky.social · May 13

Morning
16x20x2 inches
acrylic on canvas
Paul 2020

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A garden view along a stone path that dissolves into an unfinished blue sky as it passes a raised garden bed and several plants in dark blue pots and some in a fire orange ceramic pot. Beautiful weaving of blue and greens in an organic setting.

ABWAL 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 @abwal.bsky.social · May 13

Infinity
24x24x2 inches
acrylic on canvas
Paul 2012

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A circular phase of 'uncountable' dots of hues rich in prismatic colors giving way to a passage formed by light in a near perfect roundness. Puddles of saturated primary colors form the entire composition in motion giving-way to more.

ABWAL 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 @abwal.bsky.social · May 12

Sunrise Delaware
5x7x1 inches
acrylic on canvas
Charlie 2017

#painting
#sunrise

A vermilion sun rises over dark purple-black clouds in a blue sky space revealing sparkling glitter effects of stars high in the sky over a silver-blue morning ocean in dark hues of blue-gray.

ABWAL 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 @abwal.bsky.social · May 12

'Mother Earth'
12x12x2 inches
acrylic on canvas
Paul 2019

#painting
#iris

A portrait in high gloss texture of the iris Mother Earth. The standards are cream-white with tones of violet. The falls are lavender and rose-blue. The beards are orange. The bud at the throat is deep lipstick-red. A stone wall is in the background surrounded by lush green grass and shade.

ABWAL 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 @abwal.bsky.social · May 11

Most Beautiful Day
9x12x1 inches
acrylic on canvas
Charlie 2017

#painting
#ocean

A very bright day view of windy-white sky with shades of light blue over a choppy ultramarine ocean noisily rushing to the shore washing and moving beach sands of ocher and green and turquoise and gold-amber.

ABWAL 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 @abwal.bsky.social · May 11

For Sammy
12x12x2 inches
acrylic on canvas
Paul 2019

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A square view of a heavily full blooming iris under a blue sky surrounded by emerald green spear-shaped leaves. The iris standards are gloriously white-magenta. The falls are velvet blue-burgundy. The beards are vermilion-orange. The flower is highly textured and ruffled in its continuous motion.

ABWAL 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 @abwal.bsky.social · May 10

Through The Wisteria
16x24x2 inches
acrylic on canvas
Charlie 2021

#painting

A night view through the wisteria fills the entire canvas with blooms and branches against emptiness. Background colors are metallic forming solder-like colors of silver, violet, blues and greens, hanging in a fresh, wet slick gloss.