starting a new painting of roses I am a thought-ful person – I mean to say not so much that I’m kind and I think of others – which I do aim to be and do – but that I am full of thoughts. I’ve been watching myself think, and am realizing how incredibly busy it is...
It was almost three years ago when I got a voicemail message from someone who was looking for an art class, an art group – a regular place to paint. She’d just moved up to Marin from Huntington Beach, in the LA area, where she had a watercolor group that she’d been...
The candy hearts done, I’m back on a painting I started for the Saturday class on painting water in November. And I’ve got plenty of this self-criticism going on. With some parts of paintings it’s noisier inside than others. For me, it’s organic textures like...
Just about done. I need to tweak some of the lettering here and there. I’m calling it simply “Dream” The very first time I painted in watercolor, I painted from life. It was a blue Dutch iris in that first Saturday class, I took with my mom. From...
Nearly every Sunday, my folks host a dinner for us – their four kids and our families. My dad plans and cooks – with help from us. And lately, my mom has been making homemade bread and rolls – there’s hardly a better smell, than that of yeast bread baking in the...
A small painting I started so I could attend to my painting commitment while I traveled. This is the result of four painting sessions – two of them in airports! Somewhere along the way – a really, really long time ago – an idea got ahold of me that the...
