Oh guys, I’m writing this bit from March 1, 2024 .. below is what I wrote on New Year’s Day. I couldn’t publish it then, it was all too much. Things feel a little better now. I feel awfully vulnerable sharing this but also saying things out loud makes them easier and I could use…

I started drawing late in life.  It wasn’t a gentle easing into creation that spanned my youth, it was swift and absolute and unexpected.  September of 2012 was the first wee hint. November is when I mark the anniversary, it’s the date of the first picture in my first sketch book – the “First Floral”…

Many years ago I bought my eldest tickets to see Hugh Jackman in Indianapolis, it was a birthday gift, or a graduation gift… I don’t remember. She expressed to me her mixed feelings about the tickets. We aren’t concert goers. We don’t do big events with parking and seating and logistical complexities very often. They…

Happy New Year, my friends! This annual exercise of reviewing and recapping my year is, more and more, a challenge for me. Time feels untethered since the start of the pandemic, and I feel untethered with it. Sometimes I feel I should just get over it and get back to it, back to a kind…

Oh that title is intense! This is not a retrospective – but maybe it is step one to a retrospective … It’s been a full ten years since I discovered drawing and I realize, this morning, how very lucky I am to have this anniversary in my head.  So many artists have always been artists…

I sold a painting!!  Oh man, that’s so fun.  A kind of validation I don’t live for but it’s a really lovely feeling.  I thought I’d do a post about how I pack paintings.  It’s a nice reference to have for potential buyers and, frankly, I was hesitant to sell paintings because I wasn’t quite…

Good morning all my beautiful people!  It’s been a long time coming and things around here have been hopping … but Color Me 2022 is now available for pre-order! I’m doing a limited run as I really REALLY don’t love keeping a stock of things in my house, so orders will be open only until…

First of all, I love the shit out of this shade.  The design has always been stellar and really, this is just well executed mimicry – which I’m pretty darned good at. The real artistry here, for me, was the India Ink color wash and the damned tenacity.  It took time … LOTS of time….

Begun 01/03/2022 – Finished 09/05/2022 It all started with another large canvas, and a penchant for peachy pinks – which is not particularly normal for me. The whole goal was to use these stencils, which I’d snagged off Amazon for a bunch of nothing just to see where they could take me.  I had some…

I’m back with another lampshade!!   So the first lampshade went really well and I’d gotten my hands on these lovely bell shades at goodwill for $3 a pop and wanted to try my hand.  These shades are all fabric, no ‘plastic-ish’ lining to work with so I was unsure how it would go.  It…