February 9, 2016 – Photos or life? We get to decide

February 9, 2016 – Photos or life? We get to decide

Just about done. I need to tweak some of the lettering here and there. I’m calling it simply “Dream” The very first time I painted in watercolor, I painted from life. It was a blue Dutch iris in that first Saturday class, I took with my mom. From...
February 2, 2016 – Fifty shades of love

February 2, 2016 – Fifty shades of love

Nearly every Sunday, my folks host a dinner for us – their four kids and our families. My dad plans and cooks – with help from us. And lately, my mom has been making homemade bread and rolls – there’s hardly a better smell, than that of yeast bread baking in the...
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...