“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 …

“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, …

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 …

  [easy-image-collage id=4178] 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 …

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 …

‘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 …

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 …

Inspiration is such an intangible. It shows up where you least expect it and comes in many forms. I just returned from attending the TexArt workshop on the campus of …

Distractions. I have come to embrace the part of me that is easily distracted! I guess at my age, I have no choice as by now I don’t think I …