February and another trip to Kauai. This time we stayed at Tommy's sister and brother-in-law's place in Koloa town. It has a great covered front porch - perfect place to paint. I can paint even as it's pouring rain. Grace underway.

On the easel at Light Rain, ready for capture.

Though I wasn't done with the leaves and branches, I was tired of the colors, had to start painting the peaches.

I paint often in the evenings - even when we are on vacation. In the light of the lamp at the cottage on Kauai, making my way around the branches and leaves of Tropical Peaches.

Along side the cottage wall on Kauai - all finished.

Joe and I stayed several times at the sweetest beach cottage in Poipu, called Brenneke's Cottages. I loved staying there - walking distance to the beach, private backyard, just nice enough and just funky-beachy enough to suit us. I discovered I love painting grapes -...

I took a week and holed up at my friend Marie's condo while it was on the market. I wanted to do nothing but paint. She'd already moved out so there was nothing there, just the staging furniture (no sheets on the bed even). No TV, no books - just me and my paints. I...

Up against the garage door for its "I'm done" photo.

Out on the patio table, 4" house painting brush in hand. I hated the sky - just before I threw paint on it.

Home from Kauai, resting up against the garage door - all done. It became Carol Hannon's painting within two weeks. Some go fast.

On the bed in the little room downstairs at Tommy and Steff's on Kauai. I went over for a week on my own to paint and hang with my Kauai sister. I had just finished Fauchon Eclairs and got started on the dahlias.

Normally I paint from the least interesting, least detailed to the most, which means that I paint the background first, and the focal point last. But I was really afraid of not being able to paint the delicate white petals. I didn't want to paint it all and then ruin...

I was painting this just as I had agreed to show at Marin Open Studios for the first time. I was terrified of the leaves - all that detail! But I did them! I was working on the final layers of the bud at this point. This is the last piece I painted on 140 lb paper....

This is Pink Plumeria before I whacked off 8 inches of it and made it square. It never was a very strong painting. Though I did have fun with color in the petals and learned about putting compliments in to create great darks. I used some of the quinacridone rose from...

This painting along with Bud the Dog, Blue Door, Roses for Annie and Full Circle were in a plastic bag stored under my bed for a a long time, maybe a couple of years. My girlfriend Brenda told me to get them out and get them framed! She said that I had something and I...

I had this paiting banging around in my life for so long before I protected it with a frame. I had it in the window sill of my studio, as part of an altar in the pink room. I had no idea that I was really an artist and that anyone would find this precious enough to...