I had some fun the last few months taking a painting class in an old house that has been repurposed into a teaching studio and is right on the beach! When my partner-in-crime artsy friend Monika asked if I was interested in this class I...
Hmmmm. Been a while.(Just jump in Jenn.)Happy new-year-a-while-ago. Hope it was a good time and 2014 is treating you well.I had a restful break, just what was wished for, and then sort of a busy jumping back in time. My little needlepoint business is sort...
I've been finding the nicest emails in my inbox lately, from people who have bought paintings and then are kind enough to send me a note telling me why. Such nice things to find. Always puts a huge smile on my face.Last week I was...
Well I'll show this painting again when I've finished it, for now I've sort of roughed out the surface the shell is sitting on and am figuring out how to add some punch, but I've been staring at it on my easel all week, wishing...
Something about pears.These pears started as paddles.No, it's OK. I know they're awful. I worked and worked and used tubes of paint trying to get this somewhere. It came from a picture that I'd taken that I liked a lot.Man, I like that picture. Those...
Well I'm having a pretty good day! Last night the Anonymous Art Show in North Vancouver opened and this morning I woke up to two really wonderful emails from people who had purchased two of the three pieces I have in the show. Both had delightful...
Had a chance to get away a few weeks ago to Savary Island up the coast. The perfect break from it all.Two ferry rides and a last quick boat ride across to the island and we felt appropriately removed from all of that regular life...
The race to get back to the marina before it closes for the night....
A seal swam into the swimming bay last night, much closer than usual. At first I thought it was an old grey dog, and wondered who it belonged to, but a voice at the back of my head was saying, "I don't think so." A...
First you get to look. Then you get to munch.Sweet....