Clink Clink

It is funny what triggers a memory. I recently cleared out my childhood home and put it on the market to be sold. Not a fun task to be sure. So many forgotten memories dredged up and put into storage, my loft or into a dumpster. Life changes quickly. When I was...

A Thread Between Sisters

Oils are a challenge for me. So when I get a new commissions and they want the paintings to be in the oil medium, for me it is like stepping up to the plate in a very big game. Pastel comes more naturally for me. Not sure why. I remember being very young and my...

Lessons on Light from a Bathroom

 So over Thanksgiving I was in Baltimore. My son and I got to stay with my daughter and see how she has carved out her life there.  How she decorates her townhouse, what life is like in the Harbor (one word-cold) and where she works at Johns Hopkins, One day I was in...

Love and Happiness and Sushi

I have been jamming along…. I have been busy working along on my commissions, but I can’t post them again until the client sees the actual paintings. Sorry! I feel that they deserve to be the first to see the final images. So here is an other musical...

Oily Work

at nightSo as much as I would love to get my hands covered in dusty, dense pastels, I first have commission work to do in oils… I find commissions invigorating. I get to meet new people, collaborate on designs for clients (a throw-back to my illustrator days) and I...