A wee wine series….here’s the white….i think it’s chardonnay. On watercolor paper. Price includes U.S. shipping/handling.  International collectors, please email me. Comes in a double mat – black inner, white outer, to readily fit 8 x 10 frame. ...

A series of ladies in hats coming up inspired by Downton Abbey – I LOVE that show! On watercolor paper. Price includes U.S. shipping/handling.  International collectors, please email me. Comes in a double mat – black inner, white outer, to readily fit 8 x 10 frame. ...

A series of ladies in hats coming up inspired by Downton Abbey – I LOVE that show! On gessoed repurposed paper. Price includes U.S. shipping/handling.  International collectors, please email me. Comes in a double mat – black inner, white outer, to readily fit 8 x 10 frame. ...

[pinterest] A series of ladies in hats coming up inspired by Downton Abbey – I LOVE that show! On gessoed repurposed paper. Price includes U.S. shipping/handling.  International collectors, please email me. Comes in a double mat – black inner, white outer, to readily fit 8 x 10...

A series of ladies in hats coming up inspired by Downton Abbey – I LOVE that show! On matboard. Price includes U.S. shipping/handling.  International collectors, please email me. Comes in a double mat – black inner, white outer, to readily fit 8 x 10 frame. ...

All blues, except for some very cool gold gouache on the ferrule of the brush.  This is what sits on my coffee table – dollar store jar for water (I need lids to keep my kitties out!) and a little glass vase with my new Neptune brushes and dip pens in. On paper. Price includes U.S....

A pretty little stack of red apples doing a balancing act. Price includes U.S. shipping/handling.  International collectors, please email me. Comes in a double mat – black inner, white outer, to readily fit 8 x 10 frame. ...

Happy Valentine’s Day one and all! Price includes U.S. shipping/handling.  International collectors, please email me. Comes in a double mat – black inner, white outer, to readily fit 8 x 10 frame. ...

Wasn’t sure how to spell “posse” but looked it up, don’t you just love the internet?  google????  Anywho, that’s what these oranges looked like to me, a small herd, a posse giddyupping along.  Bright, loose, ink added last.  I’m addicted to ink. :...

Starting today, for three days….oh my….NOT faces.  Here are some fruit paintings I’ve done, just to take a little meander. Keeping it loose, these I painted first in gouache and added ink after.  I’m always changing up my process to learn learn learn!  The medium and...

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A very special painting for a very special person. In memory of Ruah’s...

Myra is painted on primed matboard. She’s quite dramatic, a bit mournful perhaps, or as i like to say…soulful.  She’s looking right into your soul…and what is she seeing? Oh yes, I collaged her rosy cheeks on at last moment. Price includes U.S. shipping/handling. ...

I guess it’s because I’m now living in the East, that Snowbelle appeared. No more sandals and capris in the dead of an East Coast winter.  Only in California….alas. Price includes U.S. shipping/handling.  International collectors, please email me. Comes in a double mat...

Painting over an underpainting…..and she came to me….Circuit Girl, how cute, and of course, what else could I call her? Price includes U.S. shipping/handling.  International collectors, please email me. Comes in a double mat – black inner, white outer, to readily fit 8 x 10...

More about art as autobiography.  By the time you read this, I’ve moved temporary/indefinitely back to the East coast.  When I was drawing this gal’s hair, it was all rather unconscious, but the phone call came, and the rest unfolded, and now I’m in NY.  So it is! Price...

One eye open, and one eye shut. Well, of course, she’s having a lucid dream.  Ever had one?  Quite a powerful awareness knowing you are dreaming and being in the NOW of it, and being able to consciously make decisions as to what to do next.  Cool! Price includes U.S....

Another one of my favorite drawing tools…..for sloppy delicious india ink, or sumi ink!  The lines are so unpredictable and it just makes you wake up to the process, and solve all the splotchy “problems.” How fun is that???? Try it, you might like it.  It certainly can...

I love to paint my art supplies….and this is my new quill mop (read about my latest synthetic squirrel brushes here) though i did take liberties with the color.  Ah, to be an artist! Price includes U.S. shipping/handling.  International collectors, please email me. Comes in a double...

Secret Smile gal came through…she’s a bit of a mystery, as it’s not quite clear what she IS smiling about, or perhaps even if she IS smiling.  But i think so.  What do you think?  BTW – there’s gold shimmery gouache on her! Price includes U.S....

I leave tonite for NY……hopefully I’ll still have some time to paint while back there, but meanwhile, I uploaded posts thru Feb 11…..so that should give me some time settle in and see what’s up and you won’t think I fell off the face of the earth! See...

I received a call that my dad was back in the hospital, a progression of his heart failure.  I painted this and tomorrow’s post within minutes of hanging up from that call.  Hearts are really so fragile, aren’t they? Not only physically, but all the beatings they take throughout...

Didn’t know what to draw, so I looked at my hand and dipped my pen in india ink, and before long, the fronts and backs of my hands were drawn.  I had added some gouache random splashes to the paper first, let it dry, so that was my background.  Then it became a bit of a puzzle piece...

It really strikes me how autobiographical painting is….at least of late.  I’m leaving for the East Coast next Wednesday, and that certainly has shifted my perspective a bit.  I’ll be there indefinitely to care for my dad.  Poignant times.  Requiring a “change of...

Another smaller painting, Egghead appeared.  He/she’s almost a 13th dimensional being as in an ET! On  Arches cold-pressed paper, gesso primed, some collage. Background is pure india ink. Price includes U.S. shipping/handling. Comes with double matt, black inner, white outer, to fit 8...

I was thinking about the Tangerine (color) challenge on Daily Paintworks, and when i saw this couple of paired up tangerines at my local product market, well….they became my models. But I wanted to do something….different! And before you say a thing, I know…not a really...

This one came right after the Country at Dawn (see yesterday’s post). This comes in a double mat (black inner, white outer) ready for an 8 x 10 frame. On paper, that was collaged with daily life ephemera on its way to the recycle bin and gessoed prior to painting. Price includes U.S....

It’s important for me to use great brushes – as an artist, AND to use cruelty-free brushes – as an animal lover. There is no compromise AT ALL with these NEPTUNES, they are terrific – load up FAT with WATER and PIGMENT. The rounds come to exquisite points, each brush is...

A departure for me, a little landscape appeared.  And then another…but you’ll see that tomorrow [City at Dusk]. This comes in a double mat (black inner, white outer) ready for an 8 x 10 frame. On paper, that was collaged with daily life ephemera on its way to the recycle bin and...

I’m often asked about my art supplies and I’m just as curious about other artist’s supplies so here are some of mine. I bought myself a kids set of paints (Reeves, I think), just because i HAD to have that cheery red tin and I’m rather addicted to making new portable...

I put this together after my friend Nancy gave me an empty little tin on our way back from the Camille Pisarro exhibit at the Legion of Honor.  Awesome! I was so surprised that this little tin held 9, count that NINE, half pans.  The tin measures a whopping 2-1/4″ square, and...

Ink (india ink with dip pen) and gouache on Arches 140lb cold pressed.  These are some candles that are just too pretty to burn, and my brother gave me these beautiful Waterford crystal candlestick holders the last year of his life.  Very special needless to say! This is a quarter of a...