I created the painting "Your Creatures" quite a while ago as a fun little way to honor the breadth of God's animal kingdom, and just for fun did a slideshow type presentation of how it all came together. [Read More]
In Progress
Working Big
I work on all different sizes of canvases, but I enjoy working big. There is a different kind of freedom that comes from having that large space to fill up. It's like your whole body gets involved in painting, rather than when you're working small and need to keep things more contained. I got [Read More]
Under Painting
I'm just no fan of flat paintings. As I've experimented with mixed media more and more, I like the depth that layers and layers provide. [Read More]
I Am My Sister
I was adopted and grew up an only child. It was a lonely life, not so much because of the only child thing but because of the alcoholic household thing. I always had cousins, and some of them are like sisters to me. And I always had friends, who I loved as sisters also. But then, when I was [Read More]
Working Through the Difficult Stages
So often I find with painting that it isn't so much creating the picture that is hard, it is working through all the difficult stages that bring it from idea to realized art. What starts out as a certain idea in my mind changes (as it must) depending on what happens when I get everything on canvas. [Read More]
