Apprehensive Amalia
Apprehensive Amalia at 33 years old. This week’s vintage sketch is based on a small, blurry passport photo (see below) taken in January 1934, a few weeks before my grandmother sailed from Genoa, Italy, to North America. During the … Read More
Connecting and nurturing friendships through social media.
Connecting through social media. Warning! This is a rather long post, even for me. Depending where you are in this world, you might get yourself comfortable and have a cup of coffee or a glass of wine in hand before … Read More
Recycled Wood and Paper Florals.
Celebration and Tiny Dancer are florals on recycled wood and paper. Like most artists, I hate throwing anything out. For instance, I have used old leftover yarn as underpainting for a floral. I dunked the old yarn in puddles of … Read More
One Last Portrait of Maltese Sophie for Keeps.
A painted memorial portrait of Sophie, our Maltese, for keeps. Sophie has the look I remember so well in this recently painted memorial portrait. She was always known for her “bug eyes” especially when we first brought her home because … Read More
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A pastel pet portrait and more experiments…
Lola, a first pastel pet portrait. Thank you to an Instagram follower who proposed Lola as a name for this cat. A special thank you to my followers for your excellent suggestions. (First published in May, 2019 and revised … Read More
A Painted Pet Portrait Differs from a Photograph…
A client describes how a painted portrait differs from a photograph… You might ask yourself why have a portrait painted of your sweet fur companion when you have so many excellent photographs? I will let one of my clients who … Read More
Art journals help set goals…
Art journals can bring us closer to our goals. How do art journals bring us closer to our goals? They allow us to daydream, to write how we see our future selves, to plan for the days and months ahead. … Read More
Listen to your inner voice for inspiration.
Drowning inspiration from our inner voice with ‘busyness’. How does that happen? we have too much on the go all at once our gadgets distract us from our moments of introspection family and work have us barely able to find … Read More
