Some of the light and color that caught my eye on our trip. Joe and I have been back a week and a half from a rich and full trip to Paris and several places in Italy with my family. Since coming home life has been full – working with Carla, our bookkeeper, Fourth of... 
Mama (Niz) and me with Kaleidoscope – it won second place at the fair! This is a re-post from June 7, 2016 – 13 months ago. It’s late again today – the holiday yesterday and a project that had to be done today kept me away from writing.... 
“Kaleidoscope – the work of: Robin Bentel, Sondra Blake, Jean Brady, Cara Brown, Niz Brown, Shannon Brown, Karen Burkland, Maria Carlile, Sue Devinny, Velda Draper, Ann Eichhorn, Paulette Engler, Heather Hughes, Ann Jessen, Virginie Kortekaas, Suzie Lahr,... 
“This painting will hold down the fort in my studio while I’m away.” We are getting ready to go on vacation and I’m in full-on get-ready mode. The list of things to do today is long and if I let myself think about it too much, I can get almost... 
The painting I’m working on – I got the hard part done first – the fuzzy background. I still don’t find them easy! Do you ever wonder who ate the first artichoke? Who saw this prickly, thistly thing and thought it would be edible? I ask... 