Joy of Art Forever

I don't think this looks as good as it does in real life with its beautiful silver frame. But you

Yesterday I started a class with 5 students called 'Critique and Discussion'. Five students

Here are two shots of the recent show done together with my sister who designs and makes jewelry. It

This pretty old wicker chair is in a house on the grounds of Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania. Have a

This is my definition of sun-kissed sweetness! What a darling girl, daughter of a friend of mine. I

I took a lot of photos of my tree hydrangea and so have a lot of great material to paint. Here is yet

When I visited Arizona some time ago, I was delighted with the crispness of shadows that were so

Just a small sampling of my sister's beautiful work that she designs and makes. -- Posted By

Thank you all for sending me your wonderful email comments about these small paintings. I really

This summer my tree hydrangea was visited by so many lovely winged creatures. Here is one of them. I

I'm hoping to dazzle you all with my many small paintings for my upcoming show at my studio! I

Here's another of my latest paintings. Again, it's 5" x 7" and on a panel. This one

This is yet another of my recent small works. I keep photographs of many things I see in life and on

I have been trying for days to find the photos I took of my small paintings! Today I did and here is

While I am working away at my small pieces and trying to get them to post to this blog (issues with

Hello everyone, I have been painting so much since my last post that I haven't shown up here to

I am on a tear to get as many done as I can for my upcoming show. This is my fabulous hanging system

Apparently my last post was not working to show the photo, so now you get two to look at! I'm

I am now working on about a dozen small paintings for a show coming up end of October. I love doing

I decided to put a setting around him, but you can see from the first 'real' background, that

I decided to get rid of the previous background which is where he was actually playing. I didn't

Here you have the guitarist without all that busy background that I didn't think lent anything to

So now I've got some background in place, though I'm not sure it really helps the painting

This is how I generally work from a photograph I've taken. I take the print to Kinko's and

This is a 5 x 7 painting I did last summer. I am always amazed at how much depth one can get in a

This is what I did with two cat statues from the studio. I wanted to shoot the angle that the cats

Right now, this would feel really good! Is there no happy medium between 100 degree heat and over 2

I thought you might like to see the drawing that preceded the painting. The painting is nearing

This shot is slightly fuzzy, but I wanted to show this stage of the painting before I put in the

So what are you looking at here? The laying out of what will become an oriental carpet in my painting