May 19, 2015 – Windows to the soul

May 19, 2015 – Windows to the soul

For some reason, I’ve been really resistant to wearing glasses to read, even as my eyes are going through the aging process that affects nearly all of us – I’m becoming far-sighted. I put off wearing drug-store cheaters to read as long as possible – until sometime...
May 12, 2015 – Failing and recovering

May 12, 2015 – Failing and recovering

My world-class commute! When I came back from my stay in Paris in 1996, I settled back here in a house in San Anselmo (in Marin) and worked in San Francisco.  I either took the ferry across the bay to the Ferry Building or the bus across the Golden Gate Bridge.  Not...
May 5, 2015 – Color is life

May 5, 2015 – Color is life

Velda’s palette after painting a recent Friday group. It was a painting in itself! It’s no secret to any of you that I am pretty much obsessed by color.  Looking back it started pretty early.  Like probably most of us, growing up I had coloring books and Crayola...
April 28, 2015 – A home for the unwanted

April 28, 2015 – A home for the unwanted

I just finished another painting and part of me can barely stand to look at it and call it mine. This part of me worries that I got the shadows on the rose murky, the yellow is too intense and brassy.  It tells me parts of the leaves are clumsily painted and the...
April 28, 2015 – A home for the unwanted

Still

Shop Archival Prints In our Fairfax house, the sunniest spot is the side yard – we had to walk around the house to reach it. One day just before Easter 2014, I found a single rose in full bloom and one lilac cluster—the first ever from a bush that had never...