Mid-Autumn Studio Update 2025
Whether you celebrate The Night of the Ancestors, All Saints Day, Dias de la Muertos, Halloween, or all of them, Happy Mid-Autumn Celebrations! (more…)
30 Little Gift Ideas
Each year I like to create “littles” to exhibit at the open studio and Pleasant Hill Christmas Show as gift ideas. (more…)
Day Out of Time, revisited
Even though it is more than two months from the Day Out of Time and beginning of winter, I find myself remembering (more…)
Vesuvian Gardens
‘Vesuvian Gardens” is my 2025 Creative Visionary Program series of four paintings. Its meaning and importance emerged only after I had completed them. (more…)
Letter to God, pages 1-6
Letter to God, pages 1-6
This series began with a simple desire to use most of my colors, then cover with off white to investigate the effects of the optic tones it would produce. (more…)
REIMAGINE Art Supplies for Grade School Children!
You can be a part of “REIMAGINE”, through an online Auction that begins Monday, 15th September at 9:00 am! The collaborative art exhibit raises funds that are shared among the participating public schools for art supplies, the artists and Arts Connect as the program administrator. (more…)
REIMAGINE Beautiful Mystery
Once Creative Visionary Program ended I focused on a fun project, “REIMAGINE” sponsored by Arts Connect in Lexington. It is an exhibition of work by artists who have chosen a local elementary school student’s drawing that has inspired them to create an artwork in their own style and medium. (more…)
Mid-Summer Studio Update 2025
Looking west on the Solstice
Solstice night, lights and flowers from the kids
Between now and May Eve it was high solstice with brilliant bright skies by day and warm calm at night with fireflies. The red winged blackbirds were long gone. Before that my birthday flowers were in full bloom. Now it is so hot they would wilt, instead it’s time for zinnias and gladiolus to rule. Time to can tomatoes and make herb salt. First Harvest, Happy Mid-Summer! (more…)
Mid-Spring Studio Update 2025
In this Mid-Spring Studio Update I share what’s new since mid-winter. This is another favorite time of year, when we see the joyful return of spring perennials, and with hope plant seeds and welcome the light half of the year – Beltane, May Eve! (more…)
Life With Art
“Just want you to see what a lovely part of my life you are.” (more…)
Mid-Winter Studio Update 2025
I am grateful for the creativity that bubbles up from mystery. This cold snowy season has provided long quiet days to proceed with creative activities. I’d like to share what’s going on. (more…)
2024 Year ReView
Spring Flowers and fauna
Just in the nick of time I looked back at this incredible year and wrote the ReView, it’s always satisfying. Do you practice this as well? (more…)
Follow the Breadcrumbs
The best title for this diptych eludes me, so I’m calling it “Breadcrumbs” which refers to an assignment to follow the breadcrumbs suggested by Nicolas Wilton. (more…)
Mid-Autumn Studio Update 2024
Whether you celebrate The Night of the Ancestors (Samhuin), Dias de la Muertos, Halloween, or all of them, Happy Mid-Autumn Celebrations! (more…)
Lilac Enchantment
If lilacs can bloom in October, certainly I can honor that by memorializing the occasion. Funny, I had started correcting “Lilac Enchantment” in the summer, maybe because I missed them blooming at their usual April appearance. (more…)
The Long Journey Home
The Long Journey Home is a series of four acrylic paintings. What began as expressions of feelings, with no thought of what the paintings would become, (more…)
Pocket Books
Pocket Books is a collaboration with Ellen Reinkraut that combines affirmations she sent to me many years ago. (more…)
Daily Art Practice part 7
Continuing with the equinox ~ equinox project, I was happy to be back home and get back to work. Maybe I was trying to create a cool respite from the heat. (more…)
Daily Art Practice part 6
Continuing with the equinox ~ equinox project, I must have been imagining how the road to Colorado on the Pony Express would look the following week.
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Daily Art Practice part 5
Continuing with the equinox ~ equinox project, one thing I began to consider was painting over some collaged watercolors. (more…)
Daily Art Practice part 4
Continuing with the equinox ~ equinox project, most of early June was devoted to painting the series “The Long Path Home” (more…)
Daily Art Practice part 3
Continuing with the equinox ~ equinox project, here I was trying different palettes the stirred me towards one I’m still using for series; Cerulean Blue, Naphtha red light, light magenta and quinachridone gold. (more…)
Daily Art Practice part 2
Continuing with the equinox ~ equinox project, I remember being so in love with the spring. Everything was so fresh, (more…)
Daily Art Practice part 1
For an equinox ~ equinox project, I have challenged myself to do a blog series about my daily art practice (more…)
Celebrating Mid-Summer Studio Update 2024
Shall we say it is an interesting mid-summer season of first harvest? Here on our little patch of earth food and flowers are coming early and passing quickly. (more…)
Geography of Time, Place, Movement and Networks
My chapter, From Inner Realms to Outer Worlds: An Artist’s Time Journey, in Geography of Time, Place, Movement and Networks, Volume 1: Mapping Time Journey Experiences, has just been published by Springer Nature Switzerland. My husband, Greg Orth’s chapter Amateur Archaeology and the Mystery of Daniel Boone’s Footprints: Persistent Myths Collide with Native American Indian Archaeology in Volume 2 has also been published! (more…)
Celebrating Mid-Spring Studio Update 2024
Fresh Pastures, New Vistas
The birds are welcoming the light half of the year, the lusty month of May, it’s Mid-Spring, Beltain, a favorite time for many folks – how pristine the air and flowers are! The next season is open for fresh pastures, new vistas in the studio and garden. (more…)
Mid-Winter Studio Update 2024
I love mid-winter, a beautiful time to celebrate all the beloved Aquarians in my life – soul friends, grandfather, father, grandsons, and niece. How many (more…)
Year ReView 2023
As the year rolls along, the December rituals unfold. One of the most enjoyable practices is to compose a year review. The more I gather ideas from calendars, blog posts and notebooks, the more I appreciate my projects and bodies of work. (more…)
Color Book Class
Color Book Class ~ exploring color, tools and materials. (more…)
Craftsmanship
One of the first talisman bead necklaces I made started out as a single strand piece. A few years later I used a bone spacer to design a three-tier necklace out of the same beads, making it a shorter. The stringing material was still intact, but I decided to restring it (more…)
Atmospheres
It turned out to become “Atmospheres”, a collection of ethereal textured abstract watercolor paintings, to be revealed on November 25 for Small Business Saturday (more…)