Suppose you were in an art school where every single painting you created for the entire duration of your education had to be the same basic design and composition. You had to create hundreds of drawings and paintings, both large and small, but the only constant was that the format had to be the same. […]

Many years ago, I went to an in-person landscape workshop with the artist Mary Gilkerson. Even though I’ve been an artist my entire life, I’d never learned how to do plein air paintings and I wanted to learn how. Since I’ve spent years painting, I knew all about the basics of art, color, design, and […]

Over the past few weeks, I know I’ve been sharing with you some of my favorite projects to do with my grandkids… Like the circle game that I created with my grandson… Or making homemade wrapping paper… Or creating self-portraits. One project that I haven’t shared is the crayon sculpture. This project is such a […]

One of my most favorite places to go in any city I visit is the library. The quiet and the rows and rows of books is so enticing. Sometimes I go to read magazines, sometimes I go to wander up and down the aisles waiting for something to catch my eye. It doesn’t matter if […]

Finding inspiration can be challenging, whether it’s for painting ideas, journal ideas, or any other creative endeavors. Most of the time we totally overlook the obvious. Something right in front of us. Just the other day my husband and I took a motorcycle ride (yes, we have had a motorcycle for many years) to a […]

Do you have your coffee as soon as you wake up on the morning? Do you check your email before getting out of bed? Do you work out first thing? Do you lay in bed for a while and then slowly rise to meet the day? Each of us has a ritual that we do […]

Caramel, mocha, cookies and cream, toffee, cherry pistachio, chocolate orange with white chocolate chunks… There are SO many different flavors of ice cream. The few I’ve listed above are but a small sample of the thousands of ice cream flavors. Why so many? Because everyone has different tastes. And you probably have several that are […]

It all depends on how you define rich… Is it about money, health, love, family, kindness, generosity? Although I am not rich by any means if you speak about it in terms of money, but I am beyond wealthy in many other ways. And as the years wear on I become richer and richer by […]

Have you ever found yourself “stuck” in a painting, unsure about what to do next? I certainly have. But it happens a lot less when I give myself time to play. Play is, in fact, an essential part of enhancing creativity. When I play with painting — using different media, trying different colors, exploring new […]

I love exploring different materials to use to see how I could incorporate something new and exciting in my work. One of the things I didn’t expect to fall in love with is large Post-it’s that you can peel off and stick on the wall. They are my go-to for lots of different projects: ·        […]