An Art Journey

We painted this as a group still life at one of my pastel society meetings - done on 9x12 UArt paper. It was fun to do, and after we all p...

Thanks to all my friends who offered advice on how to make this painting better and stronger. I really loved Cindy's pitcher so had a ...

I fell in love with this cute little pitcher when I saw it at a tea party at my friend Cindy's house a couple weeks ago, and I had to...

When I was working on organizing my art supplies this past week I came across a set of Holbein oil pastels. I have a bit of a love/hate r...

My first painting of 2016. I loved these little boxes that just came from the Dollar Tree. My New Year's resolution should be to spen...

I love the glass bottles that sit on the window ledge here at the farm. I hesitate to paint them though, I can never seem to draw them s...

I'm still trying to keep up with the "work small, work often" philosophy of the book Daily Painting by Carol Marine. It...

Okay, I made a few minor changes on this one because there were a couple niggly little things that bothered me, but not too much. I r...

I have been away from my easel for FAR too long - so much of the rest of life seems to constantly get in the way, but today I decided th...

Today was the day to turn in our painted boxes to the Jacksonville Artists Guild   for their "Cat's Meow" show, to raise mo...

Yesterday we had out third annual holiday brunch of the First Coast Pastel Society. As has become our custom we enjoy a nice meal tog...

My sister Amy had taken a workshop a couple years ago with Peggi Kroll Roberts and thought it was the best she had ever taken, so when she ...

I was at my art guild meeting on Tuesday night and one of the other members brought in a dozen eggs that had been laid by her own small f...

This is a painting I did with the hope of it being juried into the "Happy Hour" show at the Great Hang Ups Gallery.  But the s...

Today was the last meeting of the year for the First Coast Pastel Society. It would normally be a plein air day but we were not sure wha...

Wow, these beautiful lilies showed up in my yard today as "volunteers". Well I've been watching the plant grow, rather ...

I enjoy still lifes though I have not done them lately. But I didn't know what I wanted to do in art class last night. And it turned out...

LOL, after the hustle and bustle of '42nd Street' I needed something more soothing to paint. And what could be more soothing than a...

Some time ago I painted a picture of a bee sitting on a purple coneflower, which I blogged about here. My sister is a fan of bees and beeke...

LOL, this is sort of "I did it just to do it" sort of paintings, not one of those I especially love! But I went to art class last ...