The snow can seem dreary when it’s a week after week reality, which it is not where I live. It’s all sparkle, softness, and beauty. Last night it put on it’s pretty flavor and I missed some good pictures by not going out to catch every minute of the dawn with it’s pink horizon that...
I was warned not to plant bamboo by people using words like, “regret” and “takes over”, but I went ahead to block people from gawking at my children who were often on the trampoline. We used it in photo shoots a few times and after that there was no chance that I’d take my little...
Among my early favorites and a painting that has cost me the most time, is “Circles”. 72″ X 36″ Acrylic on canvas.. It started as a kelp forest. They’re beautiful and I wanted a painting of one. I rounded up as many kelp forest photos as I could find and designed a picture. In the...
This is an older painting that I want to update. It started with a call from my sister. She’d found a big canvas set out for trash pickup and had gotten permission from the owner to nab and keep it. Would I like to have a big canvas? Yes! She gave it to me and...
Sometimes it really is satisfying to take an older work and improve it. My acrylic paintings of a decade ago were almost all larger than could fit in the back seat of a large car. One by one they get dismantled and rolled up, but not this one. It just needed some attention. I’d painted...
