An Art Journey

  As I’ve mentioned before, I’m an avid birder. I love crossing the river into rural St. Johns County to look for birds. It’s mostly rural f...

  Another 8x10 oil pastel. Back in the summer of 2021 we rented a beach house in Atlantic Beach, NC for 10 days and had a nice summer vacati...

Last summer my daughter-in-law and three grandkids and I rented a beach house in Atlantic Beach, NC for a summer vacation. Just two blocks f...

 Next oil pastel is a painting of salt marshes. Where I live in Florida there are many salt marshes, and where I spent summer vacation in Ca...

  Still on my oil pastel passion. This is a place I pass occasionally in Middleburg, Florida. I just get a kick out of the cattle egrets han...

Still in love with my Mungyo oil pastels. This is a 9x12 on the same paper as my previous painting. This is at Fort Macon State Park in Nort...

  I might have thought I’d be more artistic during my Covid lockdown but actually I was much less so. Depression? Who knows? Less interest? ...

I'm really reaching for it here, LOL. This is a small 6x8 inch painting on a gessoed piece of wood. My granddaughter was over the oth...

Strange days continued on into May. I did slow down some in May, not even sketching as much, as even quicker wonky sketches, but somethin...

Life became very strange after my previous post and suddenly I've been mostly home and self-isolating since the advent of the Covid19 C...

In addition to the big Thrasher-Horne show we have our big First Coast Pastel Society annual juried show, held at the Cultural Center...

Our big annual juried show at the Thrasher-Horne Gallery in Orange Park is coming up, with the opening reception on March. 12. Each membe...

It's been a long time since I've been here, hasn't it? I just haven't managed for one reason or other. I had two tragedies...

Whenever I go to St. Augustine I try to stop at the Vilano Boat Ramp to look for birds. I've always loved this little building at the ...

My nephew Scott and his girlfriend Tara just became proud homeowners last week. In fact the closing occurred on Scott's 30th birthda...

Today was experiment day. I've been loving my acrylics, but have heard a lot about the newer water-based oil paints as well. I was c...

Last night I spent the evening painting a violin top for an Art Guild project. I finally got as far as I could go but still had some we...

Thanks again to my friend Leslie for inviting me to her studio, forcing me to try to paint! This is the image from last night, another ...

Wednesday I went to my friend Leslie's studio again, which is always fun, and makes me get out and do some sort of artwork even if I...

I love the photo I took of this pelican, and even painted it once before as small oil pastel, as you can see here: But more and more la...

This was the second painting I did at my friend Leslie's house the other evening - another small 8x10 acrylic. I've decided I like...

Thanks to my friend Leslie for inviting me to her studio, helping me get out of the rut I've been in. I actually did TWO paintings at ...

This is a little acrylic I did tonight, trying to use some of the things I learned a couple weeks ago in the Gloria Clifford workshop. Th...

I had such fun at my workshop yesterday. I finished my sea turtle painting with over two hours to go, but had forgotten to bring a second ...

What a fun day today. I took a one-day workshop on painting sea turtles and water with Gloria Clifford , who specializes in tropical and s...