The front cover of next year’s calendar – this time it’s all fruits! The Sausalito Art Festival is the weekend after next. It’s a big deal in my art life. Yes, it’s just an art festival, but it’s a big festival, it costs quite a bit of money to do...
A few glimpses of the richness of our weekend – I just love this time of year – it is SO “full color”! I spent this past weekend on a ranch and vineyard in Cloverdale with six other women-artist-friends. We took photos of the ripening grapes...
“Zoomed in to the lower part of this big painting I’m working on – it seems to be its own kind of universe” Last week, while up in Tahoe, my friend Steff and I went to Sugar Pine Point State Park, to gather with a few dozen others and listen to...
“Just finished this little one (15″ x 15″). My painting to keep my promise to paint every day.” Right after sending off last week’s post, Joe, Bo (our puppy dog) and I went on a hike, and the thing that I couldn’t remember, came back to...
There’s so much “fuzzy background” in this painting I’m working on! My path to being a teacher has been a reluctant one. I’ve come to it haltingly, not easily landing in the authority to share what I know and what I think. The workshop I offer...
Holly’s bright smile – last summer when painted out at Susie’s in Inverness. In the fall of 2011, when I first tiptoed out through my fears to lead watercolor groups, Holly was one of the early joiners. She wasn’t there the very first Tuesday, but...
