Paint Your Joy!

"Coming and Going" or "Hello Good-Bye" were both titles considered for this painting. The gourd reminds of a wingless bi...

The pumpkin: the October-November Cross-Over Fruit. The thing I liked about this scene was the ribbon of shadow across the top of the pumpk...

To paint this pomegranate, I set it on a box and put the box on a table so that it was nearly eye-level. I rigged a backdrop using a cigar b...

I have repainted it, renamed it, cropped it and framed it. It's still the same painting underneath.

I kind of liked the original block-in of Soda Springs and thought to perhaps leave it alone, but there is something inside of me that always...

While I was in Wyoming, I had the wonderful opportunity to have had a couple of "brutally honest" critiques of my painting, "...

I'm an oil painter but my students are watercolorists. It's a wonderful adventure with them because I really think that I would let ...

An unfinished still life, begun in a workshop recently. There are two sets of complements in this set-up: the sake bottle and cup; the green...

On this bridge, I painted with Lee and Kay, two of my great painter peeps. There was a big, huge heap of horse hockey right behind us, lendi...

One day, while I was on my Wyoming retreat, we had a "paint the town" day, and believe it or not, this mine-like thing is right do...

*sold* I believe the exact name of this creek is Torrey Creek but it is located in Whiskey Basin and they call it Whiskey Creek because, ac...

This is Carol, the new mistress of Sassy Pig. Sassy Pig won second in oils at the show in Wyoming. Who said you shouldn't put lipstick...

To market, to market, to sell some fat pigs... I'm off to paint for a couple of weeks in Colorado and Wyoming. These little piggies will...

Pretty kitty kitty, sleeping on a bench, being all difficult to paint. Jax is painted on a paper bag; something I really enjoy doing, althou...

These little piggies were given to me by my sister. I never meant to collect pigs, or anything else for that matter. We used to live in the ...