Bud was my husband Joe’s dog. He was nine when we met – the first dog in my life. I took the photo I painted from on a regular walk up the hill by our Petaluma house. It was a blazingly bright March morning. Afew weeks later Bud developed arthritis and... 
Contact Me For Details Welcome to an entirely different way to approach a painting. The only drawing on my paper when I started painting was a 2.7km square of the very center of Paris. Having the right level of detail meant even the Eiffel Tower didn’t make it... 
The image that I used to create this painting was taken on a walk in Fairfax, not too far from where we lived. The tree was in its prime bloom, no spent blossoms. OMG – so gorgeous. Hardly anything says “spring” more than standing under and looking... 
Shop Archival Prints It doesn’t rain often while roses are in bloom in the San Francisco Bay Area. When I took this photo, we had a real downpour in early June. It was a Saturday and I was outside, barefoot in the mud and still in my PJ’s taking pictures... 
It may be hard to see what’s going on here, but it’s the faint light of the projector on the watercolor paper after I finished drawing. It’s only a small piece of the painting. Just one layer of the blue sky background in. I think it’s too... 