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...
by KLR | May 11, 2018 | Botanical Art, My Travels, Photography
[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 about solutions to particular problems. Painting has been put aside for...
by KLR | Sep 28, 2016 | Inspiration, My Travels, Painting, Photography, Wildlife Art, Works-in-progress
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 many places near and far, both in my mind and on my feet. I prefer natural places and get outside as often as I can, to...
by KLR | Aug 2, 2016 | Inspiration, My Travels, Photography
‘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 out in nature. I spend a lot of time outside experiencing nature, both in my backyard...
