Will be Away

You might have already noticed the drop off in blog posts recently. It’s probably going to remain skimpy till after August 1st, when hopefully my family and I will have moved. Yes, moving time. I hate moving, though it doesn’t compare international moving.
In the meantime I have put the One Pebble Project on hold, and [...]

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Friday Five

1. I’m still hosting a great WWAO Exhibition on my website. The Secret Life of Trees will be up only through the month of June. Don’t miss out!
2. If you are on Twitter and care about what is going on with the elections in Iran then check this out. –> Show support for #iranelection add [...]

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Blogs, Writing and Tiny Canvas

My daughter has been at Rock Eagle Camp this week, giving me a perfect opportunity to get some work done. It’s been a little slow going though with the sometimes searing pain in my neck. Yesterday I had an MRI after my X-Rays of the week before showed something abnormal in my neck. I’m trying [...]

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Secret Life of Trees

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful. ~Alice Walker

For the month of June I am hosting the WWAO Monthly Exhibition, called The Secret Life of Trees. I love trees and though I don’t regularly paint them myself I do often incorporate [...]

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Little Canvases have Arrived

Just a quick update. I’ve been a little under the weather the last few days, but starting to recover. I did want to share some good news though. Yesterday I received my small 3 x 3 canvases for the Canvas Project!

Included in the package were the instructions and my 5 words I have to interpret [...]

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The Canvas Project and more

This morning I found out about 2 very exciting prospects right here in Georgia. The The Canvas Project 2 and The 10,000 Project are 2 very unique opportunities developed by The Art House of Atlanta, Georgia. I have signed up for both!
For The Canvas Project I will paint 5 small paintings (only 3 x 3 [...]

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New member of WWAO

No, WWAO is not a Pro-Wrestling organization! LOL
It stands for Worldwide Women Artists Online and I’m one of its newest members. WWAO is an International organization run by women artists who sell their work online. Ebay, Etsy, and ArtByUs are just a few of the places you will find WWAO Artists selling their [...]

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What’s new? Paintings and Projects

It’s been a busy week and its only Tuesday!! LOL
Sunday I sketched out, on canvas, 3 new paintings. Two of which come as a pair and are to be call Free Spirits.

The 3rd painting is long and narrow and is to be called Spring Offerings. Scattered on top of the pebbles will be Cherry Blossom [...]

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Well Traveled Memories – Completed

I finished my latest Earthscape painting, ‘Well Traveled Memories‘, earlier this week. The past few days I’ve just been looking over it (and getting over a stomach bug). I want to make sure it is truly complete because I’ve decided to enter it in Lyndon House Arts Center 34th Juried Exhibition here in Athens, Ga.
In [...]

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EBSQ Self-Portrait Show 2009

Yesterday I entered the Self-Portrait show at EBSQ. I wasn’t really sure I wanted to because self-portraits are so personal – at least for me. Here is the portrait I entered:

During much of the late 90’s I was obsessed with my face and my eyes, not out of vanity but curiosity. I was 20 years [...]

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