Pretend Hydrangeas
I bought these at the dollar store along with armfuls of other fake flowers last winter. 12"x12", oil on canvas. While painting I listened to a fascinating interview with the immensely talented and...
View ArticleBaltimore Washington Parkway
It was fabulously cold, grey and rainy yesterday as Captain Spectacular and I drove alomng the BWI Pkwy listening to the Trumpet and the Swan. Though beautiful in its own gentle way I needed the...
View ArticleMarrakech, Berlin, Newark
Above is a dawn sketch from yesterday morning, looking North East on the Alt-Moabit; google maps tells me that is the Heilandskirche spire.In the other direction I doubted my eyes as thought that I...
View Article#1000
Painting #1000 for me since starting this blog in February 2010. I did so on Casapinka's advice and with her patient encouragement and technical help. Thanks Pink! The math doesn't work out to a...
View ArticleCelebrate Art, Gallery Night Tour, Thursday, August 15, 6:30pm
I'll be a "Celebrity Guide" for Gallery Night in Providence, RI this week. Join me on the art bus! We'll meet in the lobby of the Regency Plaza, departing 6:40. Parking is free at One Regency Plaza...
View ArticlePerch
Some sketches from one of the art studios at the extraordinary Wheeler School, where a dear friend teaches and where I was invited to substitute this week. Two tall stories up, the tree tops are just...
View ArticleAll I had to do was open my front door
Today I recieved a beautiful gift from a traveling companion; a letter and a calendar of her photographs of Morocco. This hard evidence of of shared joyful experience flooded me with gratitude. I...
View ArticleArtist at work
Penelope is a kindergartener at Placer Academy in CA. This year I am delighted to be featured as their artist of the year. That means they are using a painting of mine as a catalyst for a gazillion...
View ArticleAlice Herz-Sommer
For Holocaust Remembrance Day which, in particular, marks the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Portraits inspired by Alice Herz-Sommer. Her extraordinary story is told in the documentary...
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