Using my left brain to make the “hearts”, seeing the interesting shapes with my right. There are a couple of themes that have taken ahold of this life of mine – one of them is a seemingly insatiable curiosity, about how we work as humans, why we do what we...
A new painting in progress. Showing up for my work. Last night while I was painting, I was having a conversation with my dear friend, Vicki. At one point, she said “You show up. You show up for your family, for your friends, for your students, you show up in your...
Over the weekend I finished a painting, I started two and a half years ago. The finished painting is so far from what I’d imagined and what the original photograph inspired, so I thought I’d share its progress with you. I had no conception of this as the finished...
One reason I’ve not been painting – I’ve been puzzling! This one is of one of my paintings – Paris – fun to be re-working my own artwork! A year ago, at the end of my last post of the year, I wrote this: “Tomorrow is the last day of 2014....
I’m married to “Mr. Christmas.” He does an amazing job on the lights – just one of the ways he lights my life. I wrote a story several years ago, as a contribution to a friend’s site: tellourlifestories.com. It was about a Christmas that was...
The hydrangea leaf in the middle of this painting was hard for me – out of that came a wonderful day. We had the last of our “Special Saturdays” this past weekend. Ten artists joined my mom and me, to take a careful look at leaves – and how we might paint them....
