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…)
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…)
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…)
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…)
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…)