Shirley James Artworks Gallery

• Boots Spurs Cowboy

  pyrography/colored pencil, Paper, 3.5 inches x 2.5 inches. I am fortunate to live close to Pioneertown, California which hosts re-enactors during the summer months and occasionally large gatherings. It is easy to always…

• Desert Icon

  pyrography/colored pencil, 2.5 inches x 3.5 inches. Desert Icon is an abandoned stone homestead cabin a couple of miles from my home. This little cabin shows up in a lot of paintings by local desert artists. I burned th…

• High and Dry in San Felipe

  pyrography/colored pencil, 4 inches x 6 inches. On the outskirts of San Felipe the shrimp boats come into a little area and come up high and dry when the tide goes out. This particular area was used to put the boats tha…

• It's About the Eyes

  Oil, Panel, 5 inches x 3 inches. Living in the Mojave Desert, we have a lot of cottontails and jack rabbits visiting us. This particular jack stood quietly with the light reflecting through his ears.

• Seeking out the Great Spirit

  Oil, 5 inches x 4 inches. A warrior is standing before the fire reflections is seeking guidance from the Great Spirit on the eve of a battle. To complete the painting I created a vignette of teepees and used a candle fo…

• what's goin' on

  colored pencil, 5 inches x 4 inches

• Purveyors of Pleasure

  Oil, 8 inches x 10 inches

• Standing Tall in the Creosote

  pyrography/colored pencil, Paper, 3.5 inches x 2.5 inches

• Making Friends

  pyrography, 10 inches x 10 inches

• Water Hole Watch

  Oil, 6 inches x 4 inches. A lone zebra standing at a water hole as if on watch with the bright reflections of the sunset. The zebra is a resident of a Hemet California animal reserve. He was standing watch over his hay.…

• follow the Stones

  colored pencil, 4 inches x 4 inches

• Quiet Afternoon

  Oil, 3 inches x 5 inches

• Smoke Tree Horses

  Oil, 4 inches x 5 inches

• Mother Earth Rising