I am painting my two children. I spent last week working on preparing the canvas and the drawing of these two. Then I started on the shading, and refining the drawing with paint. I love this part, I could ‘draw’ with my paintbrush forever. I’ve convinced myself it’s good to spend a lot of time […]

I have been traveling for the past eight days and I’m back home now. My husband and I traveled to the Netherlands and I went on to Berlin, Germany. I took lots of photos and made sketches. I can’t wait to start painting, but first comes a long walk to burn off some of the

Today I went back to the local Farmer’s Market and bought more radishes. The leaves of the radishes I bought on Wednesday had wilted so much that I didn’t want to paint them anymore. I bought another two bunches from the same woman who was there on Wednesday. I’ve been interested in putting patterns in

Does this painting look like it was a lot of work? It was! But it was a lot of fun. I tore out a page from a magazine with this pretty blue design on it. It’s actually a painted chest, but here I’m using it for my background wallpaper design. I think I have been

I have finished the portrait I’ve been working on and have put it on my homepage. Taylor is a beautiful little girl with an angelic face. Portraits are a lot of work for me, but so worth it in the end. It’s like having a baby, all the pain is forgotten immediately when you hold

I have been working on a portrait of a two year old girl. I think with every portrait I’ve painted, at some point I stop and wonder “what ever made me think I could paint?”. This portrait is no exception and that day was yesterday. I have learned, or rather, I am learning, that when

My attention is turning more and more toward the urban landscape. After all, I live in Houston and am surrounded by so much beauty every day. It’s the same light falling on trees and buildings, and the way the light illuminates objects that interests me. I love the juxtaposition of the old and the new,

I have started a project. I am having an exhibit at our church this fall and my vision is to have a wall full of portraits similar to the one I posted here. It’s 8″x8″ oil on canvas. The portraits will be of members of our church, and that wall of people will represent the