Pears & Grapes
Summer is meant to be spent outdoors, and while I don’t consider myself a plein air painter yet, I love painting from nature. During the warmer…
Friends of a Feather
Ten years is a long time to be away from friends, but that’s how long it had been since grad school – when the Lunch Bunch…
Silent Witness at Bernifal
Where is Mr. Pémendrant, to guide the visitors of Bernifal? It’s early in the season, March in fact, and nearly all of the Dordogne region is…
Completed the Challenge
31 Days of Painting and Drawing from Life. Here’s a montage of what I accomplished this month…pretty close to the order in which I did them.
Wild Abandon
The Wild Arts Festival will be happening soon, in Portland Oregon, November 17-18, 2018. Every year, hundreds of artists donate a piece of original art under…
Fleeting Feelings
From my kitchen window, I am at times held breathless in a moment of glorious beauty that invites me to photograph, paint, dream, and float away…
Do I Love Nature?
I am asked to contemplate these questions: Do I love Nature? Does nature love me? It seems simple enough…Do I love Nature? Yes! Does Nature love…
Loosening Up
Open. It’s the word I picked. Or it picked me, popping into my mind when Andie Thrams suggested we select a word for the watercolor weekend retreat:…
Watercolor Retreat
Drenching rain is forecast for the entire weekend, and will possibly flood our camp. So much for my hoped-for sunny weekend in California… Camp Lotus is…
Jack the Dog
It’s been a few days since I’ve been in my studio, but on Saturday attended an all-day workshop learning the basics of encaustic and encaustic collage.…