I've been thinking a lot about painting lately. What?? Shocker! But I have a dear friend, someone who I look up to for lots and lots of reasons but one reason is that she is a very accomplished and talented artist, and lives an artist's...
I was going squirrelly so I painted this fish. A rock cod. Don't ask me why the bright orange background. Just felt like it. A teacher told me to do the opposite of what you would expect.Does he look a little worried?Excellent day of painting,...
So this is what I want to know. Did the mussel who created this gorgeous shell feel those little bumps inside and let it spoil his day? Did he do what I would have done in my only-some-things perfectionist way and insist on making another? Did he...
On one side, real cat. All feisty and hopped up on spring, begging to be let outside then desperate to come back in, bombing around the house, jumping up on sills and ledges. Full of the devil.The other side. Shadow cat. Quieter, her job to...
What do you get when urging a teenager to get out into the sun and do something?I live with a sassafras.And a blue cat....
This was inspired by a bunch of cornflowers that my mom brought me a few years ago. They were such an intense blue it felt like my eyes were seeing them wrong. I toned them down a little bit for the painting because I think they would have looked...
It must be because it's spring. My head is bursting with colours and ideas. That's often the case. It's so distracting! But usually I walk around with those colours and ideas circling in my head and waiting their chance to get out. Add spring into the mix...
Yay! A day to paint!And with spring (perhaps even summer, if I wish real hard?) showing itself I'm taking a swing into flowers. These are chives.This is an echinacea flower that I painted huge before, but this time it's much smaller.I really enjoyed playing with...