Paint Your Joy!

I am just getting back from a wonderful week of painting with my husband. We camped in New Mexico and made daily trips up into Colorado to p...

I just got back from London; this is the summer of dreams-come-true. I got to visit the studio of my very best hero, John Singer Sargent , ...

This is a morning painting of the Patriot. It was hard to paint because it drifted quite a bit, so sometimes the boat on the canvas looked t...

It was getting a little late in the day when I started this painting and I was on the side of the road, trucks whizzing by and honking, my a...

This painting is just behind Plein Air Judy. On our Louisiana trip, we visited the site of a house that had been swept away by Ike, leaving...

A group of artists went to Louisiana last month to paint shrimp boats and local scenes, and sometimes each other! This is my very dear frie...

This is a Louisiana painting, originally done left-handed, now painted over. It may be a tiny 4x6 painting, but you'd be embarrassed for...

I am now having some fun going back to the paintings I did with my left hand and painting "corrections" over them with a little mo...

The article that I wrote for American Artist's Workshop magazine can be found in the Summer Edition, or a shorter version may be viewe...

This is my first right-handed painting in so long. It fulfilled my dream to paint in NYC's Central Park . I was so blessed to be wit...

This was a most important moment. Richard Schmid is one of the most important masters in our generation and I am extremely privileged to h...

The PSOA conference was very good, followed by another wonderful week with my family on the east coast. I am not painting this week due to w...

At the Portrait Society of America conference a few years ago, Robert Liberace critiqued my portfolio and changed my life. My beloved frie...

You think I'm cheating, but I'm not. This is the teaser ad for Workshop magazine, currently on the last page of the June issue of A...

This scene will not be around a lot longer. The barn looks like it will welcome a change; so tired. There are working farms all over this ar...