Goodbye, Lola
Today I said goodbye to my cat, Lola. I got her in the fall of 1997 with her sister, Bella, to grace my newly purchased first home. She’s been my faithful, vocal, funny companion for 17.5 years, four dogs, three …
Today I said goodbye to my cat, Lola. I got her in the fall of 1997 with her sister, Bella, to grace my newly purchased first home. She’s been my faithful, vocal, funny companion for 17.5 years, four dogs, three …
I am still finishing a stealth project, so no photos there. I am trying to concentrate on paintings for the Equine Art Show (in July), so I started one based on this photo. Here’s step 1. [image removed] We’ll see …
A few of you might remember my original post “Remember the knitting when loosing weight.” Last week I finished my sweater “Zora” and I have been prancing around showing it off; last night at Weight Watchers was no exception. I …
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I’ve been working on this post, off and on, for the last week. My main concern is that it has grown somewhat… comprehensive. When I started this blog, I wanted it to be about my art; what I’ve learned is …
My New Year’s tale, actually begins very late in 2014. December 31 I stayed up late to finish the sweater I have been working on the better part of year (since February 28 to be specific.) My goal was to …
In the last year I’ve spent a lot of time looking at other people’s blogs, getting ideas about what I’m doing right, wrong, and everything in between. If you read a lot of blogs, this time of year you’ll notice …
As I told you, I was doing quite a bit of painting in December, I just couldn’t show it to you; however, one of my projects has been delivered, so I can recap my process. This project goes back to …
For obvious reasons, this has been a very low-key holiday season for me and that trajectory continued in my Christmas celebration. I arrived at the beach to spend the holiday with my mom late on Christmas Eve, and then we …
I originally sketched this as part of the SYD series at the Fall 2012 Watercolor Society of Oregon convention; in this case SYD stands for simplify your drawing. When I transferred my sketch to a bigger sheet of paper, I …
[image removed] Trackside Discussion I The reference photo for this was also taken at Emerald Downs during the 2013 Equine Art show. This horse was being lead back to the barn by his groom; the horse had been hosed off …