Category: STUDIO
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Start painting again they said, it will be good for you they said. It will help your anxiety my therapist said. So far my accomplishments include spending the kids college funds on supplies, hiding off camera during video classes and defending my water bowl from Stevie the cat. A few sketches and paintings have worked…
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It’s cold and miserable outside, and I’m forced to work from home again (thanks a lot unvaccinated virus mutating hosts). To battle the predictable winter blues, I’ve done a few zoom watercolor classes and some paint sketches of our trip. It’s pleasant to doodle in my front sunroom, though I can’t decide which I prefer—the…
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Some of it is rather twee, and I am very very rusty, but I’m doing this again. And by this I mean spending all my money on supplies.
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I’m taking a watercolor class this morning. I don’t like school. Cancer has been hard, but school was my first trauma. Charlie gave me some drawing advice: “Remember to do as many details as you can”. Mom said I’m going to love it. A Saturday morning watercolor class during breast cancer treatment, a middle aged…
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By popular demand, I've loaded a few of my photographs to a ProGallery at Shutterfly, which allows you to order prints (and mugs–I'm not so sure how I feel about the mugs yet) of my photographic attempts at artistic greatness…ok, I'm laughing out loud now. Find the Shutterfly Girl at Large Gallery here: Girl at…
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I'm going to be painting again! I've got the studio space, I have the free weekends, I have the easel…I have no excuse. Setting up again got me thinking that I still have a number of Antibes-era paintings left unsold. This announces a last chance to get one at the 2003/4 prices (in euros no…
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…a trip out of town did me so much good, am at last seeing images that inspire painting, itchy to pull out brushes and canvas again after so long…
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Bjorn, a retired chief of police from Norway, currently working part-time for a publishing company specializing in true crime stories, has a brother whose son is attending university, studying music, in Lincoln, Nebraska, where my father attended college not too far from his own home town of Edgar, Nebraska. Bjorn's favorite true crime story of…
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I've been trying to paint this week….emphasis on trying….Don't know what it is; summer lethargy or perhaps the stress of attempting to arrange this big move back to the States, but everything is turning out crap. I think my life is too disorganized and uncertain at the moment to allow my mind to make confidant…
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Another archway, acrylic and sepia on paper
girl at large 