My pastels have gotten out of control which makes me crazy. I don't pre plan the colors for each painting but I do like to find a c...

I'm very pleased that my painting, The Tender Hour, was accepted into the IAPS 18th Juried Exhibition to be held in Albuquerque New Mexi...

I am honored to be featured on the poster for Escapade, at the WPW Gallery , 701 Fifth Avenue, Suite 310, Columbia Center Building, Seattle....

In February, I posted an image of completed paintings hanging all in row in my studio. They were waiting framing and the decision about whi...

I am honored to have received two awards within the past week. One from the Northeast National Pastel Exhibition, Old Forge, NY (Ampersand ...

The flowering cherry trees along our driveway are in bloom. They seem oblivious to the hail and coldest temperatures for this time of year s...

I have been painting on this surface since yesterday morning at 10 AM when it began as a demo for a couple artist friends. When they left my...

It's a rainy, rainy day this April 1st in Washington. I vacuumed off another old 2006 painting to use the Colourfix paper for a new pain...

Donna T asked why I decided to paint over the 2006 painting shown in my previous post. Here's the reason: when I look at the marks I mad...

Two paintings: the lower one, "The Third Season" was painted plein air in September 2006 on dark blue Colourfix paper.  Wiped ...

If we continue to make art, as time goes by our work evolves, grows, matures. Our pastel marks and brush strokes become more confident. The...

The right side of the 2006 painting has survived with some adjustment to foliage on all trees. It's growing on me. I'm going to cu...

I'd like to thank those who commented or sent me an email on my March 14th post with their opinion about what to do with this painting...

Washington state is well represented in this year's Annual Pastel 100 Competition in The Pastel Journal. Susan Glendenning Thir...

I love to crop. In our Critique Group I'm known as the Cropping Queen which is probably not what artists really want to call me when I s...

I was trying to forget about Red Square #1 and was pretty sure everyone else had forgotten about it too but today, The Pastel Journal Pas...

Another hour of painting last night to simplify red square number one. I took a palette knife and scooped up all the paint on my palette a...

This is what red square number one looks like today after an hour of evening painting yesterday. It is resting in my studio, waiting for m...

Finished pastel paintings hang from a beam along the back wall of my studio. It's a good storage place while they are awaiting their fr...

This is what red square number one looks like now. It was completely red with a strip of blues/greens in the upper left corner. After the ...

A couple years ago I got side-tracked by the color of spaghetti sauce . At that time, I fell in love with the color and dropped everything t...

Another try using the thumbnail sketch I liked so much. I might have to take a break from this winter-marshland series or maybe change th...

I really love thumbnail number 4 but just as one can rely too heavily on a reference photo, getting determined to duplicate a thumbnail can ...

This painting started out based on the third thumbnail from left, top row, on the sheet of 35 but it stayed on my easel in the oil-wash foun...

One down, 34 hometown marshland thumbnails to go....oh, maybe not really that many but enough for a series of paintings from this photo sh...

I think the 35 thumbnails did the trick to jump-start my work for the new year. This is the oil-wash foundation for my first painting of t...

Here is the result of my bright idea of painting 35 small watercolor thumbnails while viewing reference photos on my computer display. The...

I'm trying to jump-start my painting year. Went on a photo shoot (see two photos on my display above), then started with black and w...

Today we drove to my hometown for a photo shoot. I didn't realize there were so many marshy areas...we even found this elevated perch bu...

I'm cleaning out bookshelves and have 36 art books from my private collection that need new homes. A variety of mediums, all in very goo...

Some of you may know of my past with colored pencil and the book I co-authored, " Colored Pencil Solution Book ." Since I posted l...

2011 is here and I'm excited to begin painting again after the holiday break, but I was curious what 2010 looks like in review. I beg...