Celebrating Earth Day

As a landscape artist and a lover of nature, I have a deep reverence and appreciation for Earth Day. This…

Definitely Worth the Price

I am not a “crafty” sort of person. I’m creative, but being creative is a bit different from being crafty.…

Recently I found myself in an “in-between spot” with an art tutorial. I’d completed the first part of the assignment…

Never compare yourself as an artist to anyone else. Have you heard that advice before? Sure, you have, and sure…

When I was a little girl growing up, I loved the Girl Scouts. What I loved most of all was…

My abstract art adventure has been interesting. I like learning new techniques for putting paint on canvas, especially in wild…

I keep an “Inspirations” folder on my computer desktop. As I’m browsing photo reference sites and come across landscape scenes…

I’m learning a lot about landscape oil painting, and consequently I’m doing a few things differently than in the past.…

Here’s a question for you. When does abstract art stop being art? Maybe that sounds like a silly question, but…

I enjoy classical concerts. In younger days, my husband and I both enjoyed more raucous “rock” concerts — he was…

In the coming days I’m going to be focusing more on light and shadow in my oil paintings, and that…

I’ve written about Henri Matisse before. I have a bizarre fascination with his work. In some ways, I don’t like…

Now that I’ve added more warm pigments to my palette, I’m probably going a little overboard with using them. Today’s…

I hesitate to include Paul Cezanne’s name in this still life painting, the one I fussed about and fretted over…

Did you know…? Today is the official celebration for Draw-a-Bird Day. I’m not sure why it is that we’ve come…

Here is today’s playful “shape picture”. Its title is “Expanding”, and I feel that my morning “Kindergarten time” is definitely…

Time now for another progress report on my 100-Day Creative Adventure. I like where I am right now as an…

Let’s start with my “child’s play” for today, a design created with different shapes and based on my understanding of…

One of the reasons I don’t do plein air painting is my concern that I’d never be able to accurately paint…

Showing off “failed” drawings is not a lot of fun, but I learn so much from them that sharing them…