It’s funny how things come together sometimes. Most things I’ve been posting on Instagram, which also posts on Facebook. And this piece seemed to get the biggest reaction from friends and acquaintances. It sold right away and I created still two more...
Where I live in Arizona there are no hydrangeas, other than what one can pick up at the store. When I lived in Oregon, they were all over the place. Those big fat flowers would come in all sizes and shapes, loaded with color variance depending on what was in the soil....
I remember reading a book by alternative medicine expert Dr. Andrew Weil many years ago that one of the single things that we can do to promote health is to simply make sure to have flowers in the house. It hasn’t always been possible, or convenient, to have...
I decided to simplify and work on making things looser. I watched a marvelous YouTube series by landscape painter Stuart Davies in the UK where he created landscapes with a minimum of colors. I picked up a few larger brushes to try out some of his broad sweeping...
The Inspiration: Rice Paddy Field The Finished Product Last year my son and his wife visited Laos and were amazed at the beauty of the country. He shared multiple photos of their adventures which gave me the opportunity to pull one as a resource for a new paint...
When I uncovered a couple of ratty plywood boards in a shipping box I set them aside thinking they had a life yet in front of them. They were 15×15 squares, give or take, and they had been used as bracing inside the aforementioned box. Somehow it seemed sad,...
