Paint Your Joy!

Cowgirl with Child, 20x16 Happy Mother's Day, and a special thank you to you who subscribe and follow, and to you who leave co...

Son Worshipper, 18x24, Oil Painters of America 2017 National Show, opening soon! It has been so long since I posted a blog, I actually ...

This has been a different year, so far.  A good year, but different. As promised in my last post, I continue onward and upward in the jo...

I decided at the end of last year to spend this year really focusing on plein air painting. My thinking was that I would only paint en pl...

This spring's Just Paint! workshop will be held in the brand new Spicewood Center for the Arts , in the beautiful hill country area ne...

Happy Middle of the Holidays to you!  I have something I'd like to share with you and I hope it works.  Today, Oil Painters of America ...

The weekend before Thanksgiving: that's when they have the Civil War reenactment at the historic Liendo Plantation.  I had to miss it l...

I don't know what is in the mind of other painters when they work, but my mind is very busy while I paint.  As I spent my day pain...

It feels good, she says from southern Texas, to turn the corner toward autumn.  There is an ever-so-slight hint of cool in the days all of ...

Happy Independence Day!  I'm so proud to be an American.  I hope that you and your family are enjoying this holiday.  As I said in t...

Spring semester classes have finished and our art league is soon to be homeless again so my classroom is disappearing for awhile.  I will p...

The only thing a painter can paint is the light.  It seems like he's painting a tree or a face, but he's painting the look of the l...

  I have been so inspired.  Recently, in Texas, we have had Sorolla in Dallas, Sargent in Houston and Gerhartz in The Woodlands. I have...

Salon International was very different this year. Greenhouse Gallery, the SI venue, has new owners and has moved back into their original g...