Paint Your Joy!

Whiskey Basin is a wind tunnel and this day was very, very windy. We almost didn't set up it was so ridiculous, but instead of leaving, ...

I've been gone for a little while, painting lots and lots. I've just returned from Wyoming, where I go to paint in the fall. Every y...

This is Jacob, our Monday model last Monday. He is the son of one of our Monday Morning Portrait Painters (M2P2) and was sitting for us on...

*sold* Almost 30 years ago, my husband and I went to Hong Kong and one of the things we came home with was this little running horse. It...

I thought you might enjoy seeing my still life set up. For these tiny paintings, I have to tape the canvas to a board to paint securely, so ...

This is a context shot to illustrate part of the story below. Several bus loads of people came by, and in between, it was so hushed and mome...

This is another painting from our Big Bend trip. We had seen Santa Elena Canyon before this day but always with the sun behind it. We reso...

One time, while I was in the art school at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, we had an assignment: illustrate grandeur. That took some though...

Cartero Pass is a 6x8 inch painting that was originally a 10x8. The top part of the painting virtually painted itself and was sheer joy. Th...

Well, I've already pretty much told you about this scene in the previous post but there are some things that I haven't told you. Fo...

I have been gone for a week of fabulous plein air painting with the Outdoor Painters Society at Big Bend. On our first day there, it was in ...

You are not going to believe this. This is not a model. Our M2P2 model didn't show up on Monday; this is one of the artists I paint with...

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...