Paint Your Joy!

*sold* Sassy is a South American terracotta piggy. She's wearing lipstick.

This tiny wooden elephant sits on our kitchen windowsill, guarding the tea canister. When we were first married, my husband went on a round-...

I shot several pictures of this little 6x6 and they are all totally glare-smacked. It's too dark to reshoot so I'll give you an apol...

Before I fly off to other projects, I need to post a further working of the Stolen Beauty. Still a sketch but a little less sketchy. I do li...

This angel sketch is a demo, teaching how to quickly and accurately sketch out and block in a design, and also a lesson in light and shadow....

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...