by KLR | Jan 24, 2023 | Inspiration, Painting
It’s the first few weeks of the first month of a new year… what to paint next. Starting a new painting is always an uncertain time for me. I have so many images in my mind’s eye that I want to paint. There are exhibition deadlines on the not-so-distant horizon, but...
by KLR | Jan 9, 2023 | Bird Art, Inspiration, Sketches From Nature
There is a birding tradition that the first bird you see on New Year’s Day is your theme bird for the year. A chirp outside my bedroom window woke me up; I turned my head to look – perched boldly and confidently on the topmost branch of the lilac tree was a...
by KLR | Jan 1, 2020 | Inspiration, Painting, Tales from TuckerWoods Farm
…don’t take any sh*t. I said goodbye to my beloved cat Emmylou yesterday, on the last day of 2019. Emmy was diagnosed with a very aggressive type of mouth cancer at the beginning of December. I had two other cats pass from the exact same cancer, so I knew we didn’t...
by KLR | Jan 14, 2019 | Drawing, Inspiration, My Travels
“So he sat down on the stone in the middle of the stream.” – A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends were pretty much my all-time favorite books as a child along with anything about a certain black horse, and a pony from...
by KLR | Dec 28, 2018 | Inspiration, My Travels
“Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens…” For starters, the Sound of Music is one of my all time favorite movies (I just watched it again last week.) My sisters, my niece and I went to Austria and spent a few days in Salzburg; we spent one day on a...
by KLR | Dec 21, 2018 | Bird Art, Botanical Art, Inspiration, My Travels, Wildlife Art, Works-in-progress
A daily drawing practice – something an artist should be able to do just like that (sound effect – snap of the fingers), right? Well, only partially right. Artists face the same daily pressures as anyone else, both external and internal. Busy schedules and unexpected...
