Your new calendar for April… (no foolin’)

Export to PDF | Export to DOCMonth #4 (seriously!) Here’s a new April, 2011 Calendar for your computer’s desktop. Just click on the image, save it to your desktop, and then make that image your wallpaper. Click here to read about this painting on my website. Click here to see a video of this painting from start to […]

MARCH ’11 (new month/new calendar!)

Export to PDF | Export to DOC Today begins Month #3 of 2011. To celebrate, I’ve made this March 2011 Calendar for your computer’s desktop. Just click on the image, save it to your desktop, and then make that image your wallpaper. Only 20 more days until SPRING begins! Click here to read about this painting on […]

A February Calendar for Your Computer Desktop!

Export to PDF | Export to DOCFebruary, 2011 To welcome in the new month, I’ve made this February 2011 Calendar for your computer’s desktop. Just click on the image, save it to your desktop, and then make that image your wallpaper. Let new the month begin! Click here to read about this painting on my website. […]

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. […]

Early birds save in Bluffton, SC!

Export to PDF | Export to DOC    Tim and I will be spending the weekend near Hilton Head, South Carolina at the Bluffton Arts & Seafood Festival. Even though it’s not a vacation, we’re still hoping to squeeze in some fresh local seafood, and refreshing Low Country views of the May River. Since we […]

The reality of the early morning sun (“intercoastal sunrise” day 4 & 5)

Export to PDF | Export to DOCI finished my sunrise! This has been a very stretching landscape project to work on. Mostly because the lighting is so different in the early morning compared to the mid-day skies that I normally paint. The inner struggle I’ve had all week was this: “Do I paint what’s shown […]

Making a fence appear (“intercoastal sunrise” day 3)

Export to PDF | Export to DOCYesterday I talked about having to make a conscious effort to ignore the negative voices in my head while working on a commission. Well then on this particular day of painting, I had a voice in my head that I decided NOT to ignore. The voice of my husband. […]

Hmm…I think it’s turning out. (“intercoastal sunrise” day 2)

Export to PDF | Export to DOCEvery artist I’ve ever talked to agrees. It’s so much harder to paint a commissioned piece than just a painting you feel like doing as part of your body of work. The voice of the client is always lurking in the back of your head, saying “that is NOT […]

How am I going to paint a sunrise? (“intercoastal sunrise” day 1)

Export to PDF | Export to DOCMy assignment for last week was to paint the second of three oil paintings I have been commissioned to do. In the previous week I completed “milk can” and then this past week I completed “intercoastal sunrise.” Two paintings down, one more to go! All three of these paintings […]

“going to the beach” at Hilton Head, SC

Export to PDF | Export to DOCOne of the fun things we did this summer was take a short trip down to Hilton Head, SC for a few days. Here in South Carolina, when referring to their vacation plans, EVERYONE says “We’re going to the beach.” But they don’t ever say WHICH beach they are […]