ReView and Retreat
Sometimes I make myself crazy over what colors to choose from (54 watercolors in my main palette with movable pans. Plus (more…)
Golden Section, Phi
Golden Section rectangle has the property that if you remove a square from it, the remaining space is another Golden Section rectangle. This is the design format I took as a departure for the series “Phi, Φ”, a series of 36 watercolor collages (more…)
Tour of 14th Annual Autumn Open Studio
Just before art tourists came, I took these photos for a tour of 14th Annual Autumn Open Studio for folks who could not come. I hope you enjoy! It was a beautiful, windy day, as shown in the video of the Blaze (more…)
Variations on Landscape Narratives
Variations on Landscape Narratives reveals the essences of the present moment communicated by the land around me through exploration of different blue and green palettes. (more…)
Colorado Journeys
Colorado Journeys explores the long-distance essence of a beloved place I travel to in my imagination. (more…)
Celebrating Mid-Autumn Studio Update 2022
Celebrating Mid-Autumn Studio Update
We appreciate our ancestors and welcome this time to honor them. Whether you celebrate The Night of the Ancestors (Samhuin), Dias de la Muertos, Halloween, All Hallows Eve or all of them, Happy Mid-Autumn Celebrations! (more…)
Radical Attention to Detail
As I was spending multiple minutes on trying to find an ancient peach colored Tradewinds bead that would accommodate two strands of linen thread, to bury the end thread, it occurred to me that I have always had radical attention to detail when it comes to bead work. (more…)
Little Palette Book
Little Palette Book
Wondering how I would use my latest little pocket sketchbooks, since this one with the cool print of a Japanese book had heavy Fabriano paper, I decided I would put an end to dragging out various color charts and have my current palette all in one place. (more…)
The Carousel of Happiness
Our youngest grandson said he wanted to go to Happiness, we agreed. So off we all went a few weeks ago to The Carousel of Happiness. It was the happiest highlight of our summer, it more than lived up to its name. (more…)
Celebrating Mid-Summer Studio Update 2022
Happy Lughnasa, in the Celtic tradition it’s the time of the first harvest beginning on sundown July 31. We have been eating high off the hog, like my grandpa used to say. (more…)