The painting I’m working on (bottom) and the reference image (top). Two weeks ago four of us gathered at my mom’s office at the end of the day to take Hallelujah, my really big painting, out of the frame and into a huge shipping tube. Lissa Boles, my beloved... 
“The painting I finished yesterday, which I gave what feels like the most audacious title of any so far!” “The Magnolias,” as Sue has dubbed our group of artists, are having a show at the Sausalito Presbyterian Church and in preparation, Marilee asked for... 
“I’m swimming in pink and red paint as I work on these hydrangeas.” My commitment to show up here at my computer, open up Word and start writing every Tuesday morning has shifted the way I operate the rest of the week. As I do the rest of my life... 
“Promise – my little rose and Reverence – the one I just finished.” The last couple of weeks in our regular groups I’ve spent time with several disconcerted artists who were at a bit of a loss about what to paint next. There are a few things I... 
Shop Archival Prints Zinfandel grapes from a new vineyard! When my brother Mike and his wife Julie sold their house I lost my source of Zinfandel grapes to paint. Where I was going to find them when I could no longer pop by to see my brother and sister-in-law. I... 