End of summer lament
Summer is the best season… “Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a … Read More
Funky Philadelphia Murals
“Art is the center of the real world.” ~Isaiah Zagar, award-winning Philadelphia born mosaic artist. For this week’s Throwback Thursday, I am looking back to 2015 when I visited Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens. A non-profit organization, this extraordinary folk art gallery … Read More
Grounds for Sculpture – a hidden gem.
Not many people know of Grounds for Sculpture, a delightful discovery for anyone who appreciates beautifully landscaped grounds combined with outstanding gigantic sculptures. Definitely a must-see if you happen to be visiting the Philadelphia area. For this Throwback Thursday, I … Read More
The greatest joy as an artist…
[caption id="attachment_12856" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Commission work. Acrylic on 24 x 48 gallery wrapped canvas. Read about this artwork here.[/caption]
Chanticleer’s Artistry: more than just another garden
Revisiting Chanticleer for Throwback Thursday. This hot, dry summer, you might be looking for a shady spot in your little piece of heaven called a garden. Perhaps you have a hammock under an old tree and this is your … Read More
Glorious sunshine filled days are finally here!
Glorious sunshine, glorious summer days! For Throwback Thursday, I am thinking that anything with sunshine will tell the story of the first days of July 2018. Canadians have one thing that unites them: the weather. We love to complain when … Read More
The best laid plans…often go awry!
The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry. This quotation accurately describes the problems I have had creating a free vintage ebook that I promised all subscribers to my newsletter. Everything blog related (or should I say … Read More
Free ebook of vintage portraits
A series of free vintage portraits. A Voyage in Time is a free ebook available exclusively for all subscribers to my newsletter. Since January, I have been painting one vintage portrait a week…well, to be honest, I did miss a … Read More
My garden is poetry to me
My garden is poetry… For Throwback Thursday, I am publishing this post from June 2016. “A garden should make you feel you’ve entered privileged space — a place not just set apart but reverberant — and it seems to me … Read More
Five ways to show up for art on a regular basis
How to be disciplined as an artist. There is a generalization out there about artists that goes something like this: artists are very right-brained, disorganized, and flighty. In the last years, I have learned that nothing could be further from … Read More
Are you an art supply junkie?
The perils of being an art supply junkie. Has this happened to you? You open your kitchen cupboard searching for a specific item and discover that several of the canned or dry goods that you purchased some time ago … Read More
Enchanting Longwood Gardens (Pennsylvania)
This post was previously published in August 2015 when I first started blogging. With a bitterly cold Arctic wind and a temperature of -20C, spring flowers are still the stuff of memory. Today, I am dreaming of the time I spent … Read More