I want to do a whole series based on our trek last summer on a pontoon boat!   The gorgeous evening was providential.  We were in South Carolina at Brookgreen Gardens, one of my favorite places in the world.  Our family took the 7 pm Creek Trek that they...

Well, here is the progress on "Slowly...into Glory".  It's big, about 22x28, which is just huge for me.  I wanted to do a larger piece to emphasize the feeling of seeing the real live oak.  Here is the drawing and the current progress of the painting......

An apple for the first day of school!  This is an apple from my son's tree.  He wanted fruit trees for his birthday a year ago, and he received two, one of which was a red delicious.  When he picked this one this summer he thought it was pretty enough to paint.  I...

Now here is something I am really excited about.  This is a live oak from Brookgreen Gardens on the SC coast.  It's at least 200 years old, and all this time it has been pulling up, twisting, getting girthier in immense slowness.  Earning its glory over much time.  Its...

This is at the library, which is very naturally landscaped to encourage butterflies and birds.  I was out in the morning, trying to capture the lighting during one of the times of day referred to as "the golden hour" when I turned and saw something bounding .  I wished I had a...

Though this is a question I often ask my ten-year-old son, it is actually useful at the easel.  It's one of those questions that's so obvious it gets overlooked.  What am I thinking that is making me mix this color?  What am I thinking this shape will do for the focal...

Whatever Zen is...maybe it's like fung shui, but there is something so oxygenating about not tripping over a thousand things to get to the easel.   Anyway, not only did I declutter, I also painted the walls!  What an agonizing decision.  You don't want something neon green as my...

Although my pride would prefer to have everyone think I only paint all day, I don't!  I am also a wife and mother, which I love.  This summer since the kids have been out of school, I've enjoyed them very much, but finding enough time to paint has been difficult.  I worry that...

Last night, a visit to the Germanton Gallery to see Scott Burdick's and Susan Lyon's paintings.  In a way I hate the internet images, because they have underrepresented what can only be taken in when you are close enough to the paintings to converse with the subjects.  Not that I...

What is the romantic landscape all about?  I look forward to finding out more.  But I can't imagine it without some background music, which for me would be classical romantic composers:  Debussy, Ravel, Rachmanninov...how unromantic of me to misspell that last one...but this...

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