I recently posted a little oil painting that I was working on last week and was pleasantly surprised when it received a lot of attention on Facebook. SO cool! So I thought I would show how this little image came to be. It started with an impromptu photo shoot of my...
I am always amazed when people tell me, “Oh! you are so talented!!” as though my work stems magically from fairies and pixie dust. Nope. Good art is created out of dedicated time and knowledge. And although I have been called a “master”, I am...
In September I am teaching two weekly classes… This is rather new for me. I have tended to teach only intensive workshops for a few days and then travel back home and then be lucky I can say my own name afterward! This is because I tend to throw myself into my...
As of this morning I have two girls in college… ThIs morning I put my youngest daughter on a flight to the University of Iowa. My oldest goes back to Kent University. In celebration of the beautiful accomplished women that they have become, I am posting...
Last week I taught my portrait workshop on pastels. We had great models and I had brought in some original portraits. A few artists then asked me to bring in more “figurative” works that I had created. So while perusing the boxes in my studio space where most...
So last week was my first “Power of Pastel” Workshop at Sweetwater Center for the Arts. We had a full class and I was honored to have many attendees travel from Toronto, New York and Philadelphia to attend. Yay! Go me! Here is a rough recap from the three...
