January 26, 2016 – Awareness and attention are EVERYTHING!

January 26, 2016 – Awareness and attention are EVERYTHING!

A small painting I started so I could attend to my painting commitment while I traveled. This is the result of four painting sessions – two of them in airports! Somewhere along the way – a really, really long time ago – an idea got ahold of me that the...
Firelight

Firelight

This painting has quite a story. I’ve written a whole post about it in my journal. I started it on a trip to Kauai in 2013 then abandoned it until early in 2015 when I realized it needed a color scheme change. What was mostly red turned into a lot more pink and...
Juicyfruit

Juicyfruit

On a sunny Sunday morning, driving home from an overnight at a campout my husband goes on every August, in my peripheral vision on the side of River Road, were these grapes. Their orange color stood out – orange grapes?  I pulled over on the lumpy-grass shoulder...
January 12, 2016 – Showing up

January 12, 2016 – Showing up

A new painting in progress. Showing up for my work. Last night while I was painting, I was having a conversation with my dear friend, Vicki. At one point, she said “You show up. You show up for your family, for your friends, for your students, you show up in your...