An Art Journey

This painting has been sitting on my easel for over a month now. I kept thinking it needed something else. I finally got it into my head t...

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...

At the September meeting of the First Coast Pastel Society we had a presentation by Karl Kelly of Mount Vision Pastels , from Tampa, FL. K...

Yesterday the First Coast Pastel Society had our first plein air outing of the fall season at the Jacksonville Arboretum. We had abo...

This is the second 16x20 acrylic I did for the "16x20" show at Reddi-Arts. Acrylics are still a huge struggle but I'm having...

We had receiving for an art show this morning where every piece had to be 16x20. That is the image size, not counting mat, not counting f...

When I was in Canada this summer my neighbor told me I should visit the Beaubassin Research Station located on the Tantramar Marsh along...

Every summer I take my pastels up to Canada with me and VOW I will do lots of painting, and yet I never seem to get as much done as I thin...

 Once again I enjoyed going to the Life Drawing sessions at the Tidnish Bridge Art Gallery on Monday evenings, 7-9 PM.  The format was ...

In May the Jacksonville Artists Guild had their zoo fundraiser opening at the zoo itself. What a fun evening it was to have the zoo all to o...

Boy, I am so behind in my blog! I and I kept putting off adding things I wanted to add, as I wanted to keep this chronological. I had a l...

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've been in a bit of a painting rut lately. Except for the pet portraits I did for my cousin's birthday I've only done two pa...

  This weekend I'm invited to a surprise birthday party in Raleigh, NC for my cousin's 65th birthday. Her husband said "no g...

This is a painting I did from a reference I took in May 2012 when I went to High Island, Texas, at the tail end of the spring migration se...

I enjoyed working on the black Art Spectrum paper more than I had expected to in the workshop I took last weekend. And in fact I've al...

This is the third and final painting I did at the Richard Lundgren workshop, from a photo I took when I was out with my sister and bro...

This is the second painting I did in the Richard Lundgren workshop on Saturday. Richard used black Art Spectrum paper for his demo. I lov...

Today I took a one-day pastel workshop with Richard Lundgren . It was a fun day, with lots of folks I knew also attending, plus other som...

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...

On Saturday I went to Ravine Gardens State Park with the First Coast Pastel Society. Ravine Gardens is a small gem in the state park sys...

After painting the elephant and flamingos for the Jacksonville Zoo Project I still had the acrylics all over the dining room table. At th...

This is my third and final square for the Jacksonville Zoo Project, also done with acrylics like the previous elephant. I still feel like...