Our Grocery Store Beautification Project (The making of Sunflower – part 2)

Export to PDF | Export to DOCA photo diary: How “Sunflower” was born last summer… My husband Tim and I love to take old places and make them new. We normally do this to neglected houses, but last year we did it to an old grocery store. It took a couple months, and added more than […]

The last calendar of 2014

Export to PDF | Export to DOCA Single Sunflower… “Sunflower #3 Needs a Home” Here is a new Sunflower calendar you can use to brighten up your desk this month. This painting is actually still available for purchase and is hanging in the gallery at my store called “Sunflower.” Now that I think about it — it’s the ONLY Sunflower I have ever painted […]

A new calendar for November! Sunflower #2

Export to PDF | Export to DOCThe creative spirit within me loves to have something new to look at. Here’s a free and simple way to freshen up your desk for the new month. Clean off workspace  (Be ruthless in throwing things away.) Clean off computer desktop (This is more complicated. My quick & easy “system” is to […]

October 1. Sunflower 1.

Export to PDF | Export to DOCThe first of FIVE Sunflowers. Sometimes I get a little carried away with an idea. While some people might think it’s a good idea to paint “a” sunflower, for some reason I felt the need to paint FIVE. Those who know me well, will heartily agree that this is pretty much the story of my […]

Sunflower’s Autumn Hours begin today!

Export to PDF | Export to DOCEnjoy our new earlier morning hours. Sunflower is NOW OPEN Tuesdays – Saturdays: 10am – 6pm   We WISH you would come visit our newest Travelers Rest, SC location! Was it really 10 years ago that I painted “Maple Wish?” I guess it must really be true that “time flies when […]

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 […]

standing at the edge of a sea of sunflowers…

Export to PDF | Export to DOCI finished a big new oil painting yesterday! It’s called “sunflower path” and it’s from some photos I took from a field in Travelers Rest, SC. To see some of the photos I took of this sea of sunflowers, click here. To read what this painting makes me think […]

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 […]

Still snowed in! (another coloring sheet for making more art)

Export to PDF | Export to DOCFour snow days this week, plus the already scheduled days off for Friday and Monday = A 10-day Weekend! I was supposed to be teaching “art day” at my son Nathan’s school on Thursday but it got snowed out! In preparation for my talk to all the 4th grade […]

new prints of sunflower #5!

Export to PDF | Export to DOCLast winter I completed a series of five sunflower paintings. And then sure enough, my very favorite one of the five sold. Since it was sold to a client in Milwaukee, before making the delivery I decided to have it “captured” by my fine art printer, Prime Digital Media (which […]