The Clothesline

I signed up for another Christmas card exchange, actually two more. One is to be a pen and ink and one is watercolor or whatever media. I re...

I have been struggling to paint these beautiful birds of Paradise that have started to bloom since the weather is cooling off. I painted the...

Hi everyone out in the web world, I have been so wrapped up in the backyard and all the construction plus the new quilts I am doing I haven...

I bought a property in Idaho with my mom as an investment. It has sat vacant for almost two years and when we go up and try to work on it th...

I am just feeling so frustrated, and I know that all of us who frame artwork feel it everytime we go to frame something. Why cant the frames...

I am still playing with pastels, I seem to be drawn to them right now, probably because they are new! I am easily bored so I guess I need to...

I was able to get to another life drawing class. I missed last month and I really want to try and go to these, I feel it really improves my ...

I had the wonderful opportunity to take a pastel workshop with Diana Ponting. It was incredible, I learned so much and made a bunch of new f...

This month the color is white, white is wonderful to paint since it reflects all the other colors and if done right, will read as white alth...

Today is July 9, the anniversary of Jennifers crash. It is a weird day, it always feels weird. Some years I try to go out and fill the day...

I did a quick sketch of lavender on postcard, its another practice in looseness. Its amazing how hard it is to be loose and successful wit...

I am painting this for one of the online art monthly challenges. I love chickens, we used to raise them and actually showed them at the fair...

I am falling in love with this little person I call my grandson. I know you always love them but when you get to spend alot of good qualit...

Last Friday, Randy and I went on a date night to the Newport Hyatt hotel where they have a summer jazz concert and dinner etc. It was really...

Ok, I just didn't feel it was done and my group agreed, so instead of just redoing it, since its pretty good size, I just worked it more...

My garden is bursting with color and painting opportunities. I find I have such limited time to paint unlimited subjects. I spent a wonderfu...

In a online watercolor group I am in the asked us if there was something in our kitchen that was screaming out to be painted. I had gone to ...

Today Marta and I went to the spa, it was so much fun and so relaxing. We had scalp treatments and sat by the pool and painted. Then we sat ...

Well, we went to the balloon feastival last Friday night, but there were no balloons. I was so dissappointed. They said they only go up in t...

On one of my online workshops they are doing loose roses. The whole focus of this website is to stay loose and not over paint or over work t...

My husband has been working at night, I take the time to paint uninterupted by the daily activities that steal my painting time. Although I ...

My girlfriend got a new puppy for her daughter, Cassidy, they choose a bassett hound puppy. They have to be one of the cutest dogs as puppie...

My hubby worked tonight, I don't sleep well when he is home so I really don't sleep at all when he is gone. It is now 2:00am and I t...

I played with pencils today, I am working on a rather large graphite project for a online class at WC. The teacher is awesome, one of the mo...

My daughter finally emailed me some pictures of Nathan's room with his new mural. Since I kept forgetting my camera every time I went to...

I decided to take a few minutes this morning and paint before I had to start a mural job and potatoe salad for dinner. Seems like once I sta...

Well we made it back from UCLA, it was a long hard few days. We took Jenn in on the morning of the 22nd, we had to leave at 5 to make sure w...

Today was the bug fair at the LA Natural History Museum. The museum is really awesome and the bug fair was really fun too. Jennifer is an av...

Last night was the museums monthly life drawing class. Marta and I went over early and had tapas and a sangria at Seville's a spanish r...

On Saturday morning, Marta and I ran out to the Farmer's market for breakfast and a photo shoot. We had a great time in just a few hours...

Although I didn't complete these at camp, I did start them and decided to finish them right away so they wouldn't end up in the UFO ...