I am really enjoying being in Gay Faulkenberry’s workshop, she is so pleasant to be around and is very giving with her instruction. She manages to answer every question I have thoroughly, I think it helps that the class of 9 students are all good painters and are all very intent on their paintings. Gay

Yesterday was the first day of a four day workshop with Gay Faulkenberry here in Houston. Gay is a colorist and the main objective for me is to learn more about color from this workshop. Yesterday she spent the morning working on a demo, a still life painting. Her colors are bright and clear, it

I’ve decided I need to stop worrying about what to paint, and just paint. I’ll revist what I want to paint in a few months, but meanwhile I just need to paint something. And often. I guess I feel like I need to choose a genre (do people still use that word?) so I can

This is a cafe I spotted on a sunny day in Paris. What caught my eye was the design of the space; the dark areas against the light. Yesterday my family and I drove an hour to visit my sister, her family, and my mom. I took a lot of photos of the countryside (again!)

I spent about an hour today getting this painting started. I usually do my design with a mix of ultramarine blue and burnt sienna. I say “design” because I try not to start with a drawing, I start with rubbing in or blocking in the main shapes. It’s almost like fingerpainting, I use a rag

These are my two children at the Louvre. It’s 8″x10″ oil on canvas, sorry for the glare, it’s still wet. This was after about 2 hours of looking at paintings and the kids were “pretending” to be so bored that they fell asleep, little did they know that 2 hours later they were really going