Owls are beautiful creatures. They’re mysterious, maybe because they’re active mainly at night and therefore hard to spot. The Great Horned Owl, which is the most popular owl in Jackson Hole around our house, comes out mostly at dusk. There are other kinds of owls around, but this is my favorite. They have a distinctive […]

Building that special place takes some thought and planning. Here’s what I learned when I built my very own studio. I built a studio in about a month (with lots of help), using mostly reclaimed material. I wanted a quiet space with lots of light, tucked behind another building on our property in Jackson Hole,

Before you frame your unstretched canvas painting, you need to adhere it to a rigid support. Below I will give you step by step instructions how to do this. The loose canvas can be glued to a piece of wood, masonite, or foamcore. I painted this dog on a piece of canvas taped to cardboard.

Would you like improve your drawings? Or start drawing? Make drawing a habit? Whether you sketch now and then or you’ve never drawn before and are a complete beginner, these 3 steps will help you get to where you’re making more and better drawings. And hopefully you’ll be a more confident sketcher because that lack

Your best chance to see wolves in Yellowstone is to drive along Lamar Valley, a large valley at the northern end of Yellowstone. Wolves can be seen in other parts of Yellowstone too, but those sightings are rare. My husband and I drove up to Lamar Valley in northern Yellowstone to learn about wolf watching

Storm coming in This is the second Yellowstone plein air painting I painted when I drove to Yellowstone one day last fall. I was looking for a good place to set up in Grand Teton National Park and saw a sign that said “Yellowstone 20 miles” so I drove on to Yellowstone basically just because