I bought a dozen yellow roses to paint but they weren’t opened up enough for what I had in mind so I grabbed these two from the bunch to paint. I like the way the little leaves under the rose on the left look like they’re dancing. This was fun and no pressure, unlike the

This is the same set up as a couple of days ago, just a little bigger at 10″x10″. It’s oil on linen mounted on a birch panel. It’s been fun and challenging to paint sunflowers but now I think I’m ready to move on to something else.

One of my favorite things to do on a rainy afternoon is to hide out in my studio and paint! Today is one of those days and I’ve enjoyed the last 2 hours immensely. My daughter graduated from high school last week and she went and got some flowers for my husband and me to

This is actually a detail from the 11″x14″ oil on linen posted below. I painted this lovely girl in her kimono from life. As usual, I didn’t quite finish with the model in front of me and had to do a little more later from photographs. I enjoyed painting this, I guess I never enjoy

Lately I have been spending a lot of time driving my paintings from place to place. Really, my paintings travel way too much. A painting starts out like any other painting, a blank canvas at the art supply store, and then it comes home with me. Then I paint the painting. Next I take the

Here I have painted the trumpet man again, this time a little bigger than my last impression of him. I also painted him with a white shirt this time instead of a dark blue one. I changed the shirt to white because I’m interested in the graphic design in this painting and I thought adding

Well . . . this painting didn’t turn out at all like I thought it would. I had something different in my mind but this is what came out on the canvas. It’s 20″x20″ and done in oil. When I start a painting I always have a picture in my mind of what the finished

This is one of the paintings I just entered in the HCAA show, I realized I had never posted it and it was kind of hard to see in my last post. It’s 8″x10″ oil on linen canvas mounted on birch panel. Here I was trying to paint a figure yet still make sure the