Paint Your Joy!

This is the sketch from our Monday portrait group. I did finish it on Monday but didn't photograph it till today. This beauty works beh...

This is a painting that I started more than a year ago, of a ranch where we paint in Wyoming . It's a beautiful place and on this day, t...

My plan today was to go to my Monday portrait group, stop by the post office afterward and ship some paintings, then finish this one in time...

Just to the left of these trees was Whiskey Creek, which I've already posted, and this is one of the paintings I promised in that post. ...

The Stone Maiden is a 20x16" painting, still wet, done for a Black and White show at the Salmagundi Club in New York. For so many ye...

Honorable Mention, Salon International 2010 This still life was orchestrated by my husband and also included a cigar box with 7 red and gre...

I am so proud of this painting. It was started very late in the afternoon during the OPA paint out, really too late for a sane person to sta...

Our Monday Model. I am working on three things right now: brevity, color-value planes, and light. Actually, I'm always working on light...

Welcome to the new year! 2009 was full of travel and adventure, the last trip being this one: the Oil Painters of America regional paint out...

"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, "...