I download my photos from my DSLR into daily folders named with the date and today I happened to be in the folder for April 6, 2006 and saw the photo that became the reference for this painting. Yes, it’s that magic light as the angle of the sun rises and sunlight reaches way into […]
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“Walk in the Woods”—that’s not just an idea, that’s an imperative! Take the time, go and do it! I’m so glad I did. Time was running out for the amazing leaf color in October 2022, and I’d really wanted to take some time more than once when the leaves were at their prime to at […]
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Another customer sent me a photo of her custom commissioned painting on the wall in her house, and this is one I haven’t shared here before. Winter Sunset Abstract is a pastel on matboard, which I use sometimes for larger paintings. This painting is 24″ x 32″, and with an ice blue mat it’s 32″ […]
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I like wide mats around small paintings, especially highly detailed small paintings. It helps to isolate them so there is less visual competition, and it makes something small seem like a bigger deal. The person who purchased the original of this painting didn’t want the original 16″ x 16″ white frame and mat. I chose […]
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On a quiet sunny winter afternoon this little unnamed tributary surely had a lot to say, babbling along over rocks and shelves of slate and limestone on its way to Scrubgrass Creek a distance away. Off in the woods on January 12, 2012, I stood in the snow and painted a little pastel sketch as […]
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I played hooky today and ran off into the woods. Autumn has been developing most beautifully and I keep trying to find the time to get out there and have a few hours in the woods to paint and photograph and just walk barefoot on the trails at least one last time this year. A […]
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Sometimes a painting holds far more than just the image, and connections that hold many people together, as these deserted cottages did in life, on paper, and inspiration. In October 2011 I posted the original of this painting of deserted cottages along Lake Erie, and told of memories of my mother, selling her house, and […]
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Eight Annual Exhibit SUN SHADOW ICE & SNOW seasons along the panhandle trail featured artwork “Paths I Have Walked” featuring art, photography and poetry of and about the Panhandle Trail plus paintings & sketches from prior exhibits prints of paintings and photos handmade gift items inspired by the trail Opening Friday August 26, 2022 5:00 […]
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February may be the shortest month, but it seems the longest in its often dull, overcast days when winter seems to have overstayed her welcome. Imagine that waiting game for the wildlife in our midst. The mourning doves are just sitting quietly, taking it all in, possibly knowing that, in time, this too shall pass. […]
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Seventh Annual Exhibit SUN SHADOW ICE & SNOW seasons along the panhandle trail featured artwork “Emerging Spring” featuring art, photography and poetry of and about the Panhandle Trail plus paintings & sketches from prior exhibits prints of paintings and photos handmade gift items inspired by the trail Opening Friday August 27, 2021 5:00 P.M. through […]
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TNR project to remove stray and feral cats from an abandoned building to be demolished.
Join us at Dogapalooza in Carnegie Park, Sunday, June 4, 10 to 2
I’ll See You at the HCMT/Pittsburgh C.A.T. Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser May 21
Featured Artwork and May Desktop Calendar: Peach Begonias
May Nature Desktop Calendar: The Garden Gate
Pittsburgh Botanic Garden Spring Artisan Market April 30, 2023
TNR project to remove stray and feral cats from an abandoned building to be demolished.
Join us at Dogapalooza in Carnegie Park, Sunday, June 4, 10 to 2I’ll See You at the HCMT/Pittsburgh C.A.T. Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser May 21Featured Artwork and May Desktop Calendar: Peach BegoniasMay Nature Desktop Calendar: The Garden GatePittsburgh Botanic Garden Spring Artisan Market April 30, 2023
