My New Year’s Gift to you: a January Calendar!

Export to PDF | Export to DOCIt’s a new YEAR, a new MONTH, and even a new DECADE. To celebrate, I’ve made this January 2011 Calendar for your computer’s desktop. Just click on the image, save it to your desktop, and then make that image your wallpaper. Voila! Your first accomplishment for the new decade. […]

a new decade starts tomorrow

Export to PDF | Export to DOCI love opening up my new calendars and seeing not only the new images I’ll enjoy throughout the year, but the possibilities the blank pages mean. What will I accomplish? What will I see? What new things will God teach me this year? It dawned on me this week […]

Who’s got my paintings?

Export to PDF | Export to DOCAs I look back on 2010, I’m so thankful for the many people who bought my oil paintings this year. Here’s a public declaration of my gratitude to these fine folks with such excellent taste in art. 🙂 “Thank you for liking my art enough to make space for […]

sewing up a storm

Export to PDF | Export to DOCBy now you may be seeing a trend. I am in love with pillows. I spent an entire week this month doing some sewing. And I’m still not done! The new plan to feed my obsession for pillows, is make new COVERS for the pillows I already have. Covers […]

an early christmas gift

Export to PDF | Export to DOCWe just got back from meeting my mom and dad in Savannah, GA for a 4-day weekend to celebrate Christmas together. My parents gave us the beautiful silver bowl as a gift. I especially love what it says, knowing  that the saying is the reason my mom choose it […]

a painting for myself (“winter berries” done!)

Export to PDF | Export to DOCI’ve finished a Christmas present for me (from me.) It’s still on my easel drying, but hopefully it will be ready to hang over my fireplace by the weekend. You can watch the two-minute video below if you’d like to see it come to life — from start to finish. […]

“O Christmas Tree” (bid now for this painting!)

Export to PDF | Export to DOCAfter we put our Christmas tree up last December, I decided that I needed a new painting to cheer up our home during the short days of winter. So I decided to paint myself a winter painting called “O Christmas Tree.” It hung over our fireplace, making me smile […]

painting a portrait of a house (“Oregon St.”)

Export to PDF | Export to DOCHere’s my latest oil painting. You can watch this slideshow video below to see it from start to finish.

done! (“pear orchard”)

Export to PDF | Export to DOCI finished this vibrant oil painting in April,but just finally put it on my website this week. If you make it to Open Studios on Friday or Saturday, you’ll get to see it hanging on a burnt orange wall… it’s a rather stunning combination if I do say so […]

done! (“afternoon nap”)

Export to PDF | Export to DOCI’ve had this piece hanging up for several months now, and decided long ago that it just wasn’t “quite right.” So just last week I FINALLY put the finishing touches on it, and I’m happy with the results. Here’s the before and after photos… the changes I made were […]