An Epic Road Trip – My American Anthology
ROAD TRIP! Fifty two years ago, I was five years old. It was 1966 and my parents took us on an epic road trip. We drove roundtrip around the country …
Designing Websites and Tulipmania
Website, website, website – can you say website? I have been immersed in redesigning my website for the past month. I have even been waking up thinking about solutions …
The Artist and the Art Career Coach – A Match Made in Creative Heaven
The beauty and benefits of an artist/art career coach relationship… We all need a helping hand sometimes but we also need to give ourselves permission to seek out and accept …
Impressions of Oswegatchie Hills
A place can be many things – somewhere you go in your own mind to remember, revisit or relax, or a physical place you experience in person. I go to …
My Sometimes Meandering Creative Process
Sometimes a painting is completed in my mind before I ever commit it to paper or panel. Like driving a fast car on the Autobahn! And sometimes a painting follows …
Hummingbirds, Raccoons, and Great Blue Herons
The month of August was full of hummingbirds, raccoons, great blue herons and generally, birds! Despite a very hot & humid month, I still managed to get outside with my …
Pictures are Worth a Thousand Words
‘A picture is worth a thousand words’; a trite, somewhat overused phrase but how true for me! Spending time outdoors I am a natural history painter; painting what I see …
Reading While I Paint!
I love reading. I love to read. I love books. Did I say that I love reading?!! I don’t remember a time that I didn’t love books and reading. One …
Change is a Good Thing
Life throws us change every day. I have mapped out a plan of blog posts. The second post of each month is scheduled to be about my work-in-progress. And then this …
Trees; or the Search for a Tree
I am searching for a tree – not just any tree, but a TREE. I’m a member of the American Society of Botanical Artists (ASBA) and one of our upcoming …