These samples span close to 40 years, done for the love of creating, for exploring, for learning, for responding, and at last for a wide range of clients and projects, including North Light Books, Sierra Club Books, Time/Life, Van Nostrand Reinhold, Viking Penguin, and for the magazines Country Living, Early American Life, and Sports Afield. They represent watercolor, acrylics, pencil, pen and ink, colored pencil, scratchboard and other media.
Symbols, Seirra Club Book
This watercolor of the Nevada desert has also appeared in several magazine articles, including Ms. Johnson's column in Watercolor Magic.
“Mayapples,” Country Living Magazine
Watercolor study.
“Turkish Coat,” Van Nostrand Reinhold
Pen and ink drawing done for Ms. Johnson’s first book, Quiltwear, from Van Nostrand Reinhold.
Maiden and Crone
Maiden and Crone
Vassmer’s Old Place
Vassmer's Old Place
Cat in Basket
Cat in Basket
Fae Fox Face
Fae Fox Face Sculpture
Faeana Fawkes with Friend
Faeana Fawkes with Feather
Rose Mary a wee goblin girl
Rose Mary in the Wild
Rose Mary in the Wild
“Checkerspot Butterfly,” Country Living
A field sketch in colored pencil and watercolor for Ms. Johnson’s second column for Country Living, entitled “The Naturalist.”
“Dandelion Farm,” Early American Life
A gouache painting in a folk art style done to accompany Ms. Johnson’s designs for glass bottles produced by Early American Life. (*See Freelance Artist page)
Journaling, Contemplation, and Meditation
Birds at the Shed
Birds at the Shed
Molly Hammer in Performance
“Wild in the Country,” Sports Afield
Another Sports Afield illustration that accompanied Ms. Johnson’s article on wild foods; watercolor.
Blue Ridge Dusk
Watercolor, North Light Books
"Early Spring in Missouri," Country Living
Watercolor, for one of Ms. Johnson's quarterly column.
Ink & Wash Demo - Recording Family Treasurers
Brother Alphonse and Ellis
Sketchbook Tour -- the Cabin Book
Dandelion illustration for Sports Afield
