I'm writing to share my online studio and gift sale with you that is online this year. (oh what a crazy year!) I am offering loads of smaller watercolors along with gifts of card sets and calendars. I am thrilled with how the 2021 calendars turned out
At the end of the year I sit and look through some of my sketchbooks, of which I have many. They are not really very organized, but I do keep separate sketchbooks for different themes and topics such as 1 for urban sketching, 1 for
This year I am returning here to my blog. I have missed the value of sharing work in a longer format, having the opportunity to reflect on working and developing as a painter this way and also the format to be able to interact with
I have decided to try something new and fun this coming week, which is to hold a week-long auction on my Facebook artist page. Each day starting 9 am and finishing at midnight from Sunday, June 30th through the following Sunday July 6th, I
Well, I know I have been down the painting a day road before. And somehow it never gets old, it is always a useful practice to return to. This month I have decided to do this painting a day project again for a number of reasons: to
It is that time of year again- time to meet and reflect and share what was accomplished throughout the year. I love having this marked time at the end of the year as a chance to meet up and for me to have the opportunity to
I wanted to share something that I am working on because it is a new process for me and is something that I am doing to push myself to another level and to learn a new process in the process. Working on the charcoal study from
I am happy to share with you a feature article I wrote for the UK magazine The Artist. The article is for painting geeks and is entitled, "Color Harmony in the Split Primary Palette." What that means is how to use a simple palette of just
Well, materials are more important than we think. The more I paint the more I become what some might call "picky", but really it is more like specific. What I mean is in today's painting the paper. I hate this paper! I don't want to sound like