A time to paint, a time to play: Blueberry picking in Archangel Valley, Alaska
As difficult as it may be, there are times to put the paint brush down. Some things just can’t wait. Children grow up, parents age, weather changes, and blueberries are only ripe for the picking for about two weeks out of the year. I pray that I will always have the wisdom to know when [...]
When I grow up, I’ll paint FASTER!
SOLD Here’s today’s painting. It’s called “The Center of Attention” since no matter how I tried NOT to center the subject in the middle, it kept coming back to the middle. It’s fairly obvious that this radish has a superiority complex! It’s 3.5 inches square, oil on Ampersand Stampbord and took me too long to [...]
Nomad
I decided to take a break from the mother and son commission. I’ve scraped it so many times, that I’ve lost count and thought I had a good under-painting until I looked at it the next day. I’m contemplating throwing it out and starting over on a different pose-we’ll see. So I finished up “Nomad” [...]
Welcome!
Welcome to my site and blog! Typical of my style, I’ve decided to jump right in, in spite my anxieties and trepidations regarding sharing such a personal aspect of myself with anyone who would care to know. It has been a long-time dream of mine to become a fine artist. A couple of years ago, [...]