Finished! This was a complicated piece from a reference photo taken on one of our dog-walks. I kept the composition of the photo but pushed ...

The painting on my easel is coming along - I'm working pastel back to front, top to bottom but had to put in the moss covered branch t...

 I love this as a finished painting!  But it is a detail shot of the upper right corner of an oil-wash foundation...  the preparati...

 Out with the old....I brushed off a painting to use the surface again.  Next, I applied a thin oil-wash as a loose composition of th...

This is my impression of the pond at Golden Gardens Park in Seattle. For this 25 x 25 inch painting (large for me), I started at the...

This is another scene of our driveway. I've painted it twice before as "Light Show II" and "The Good Road Home....

This isn't the first time I've titled a blog post "know when to walk away." When I hear the lyrics of The Gambler begin ...

I'm working on another painting of the dog park. I thought I better check my values against the reference photo to get the mood rig...

Today's painting began with an oil-wash foundation on Wallis paper. As I applied pastel, I tried to work slowly as I visualized Elizab...

My weed-eater has a lever marked "COLD START." I flip it up to make starting the motor faster and easier. I need one of those le...

The slush we expected from our snowfall last week immediately after we returned from Hawaii would have been welcome compared to the freezi...

I'm back from the lush island of Maui to soon-to-be slush snow in Washington. Quite a shock but it's good to be home. Wishing ever...

It's end-of-year cleanup in my studio. I'm looking for new homes for some of my smaller, unframed works. This one, "Meadow Ligh...

As we approach the winter holiday season and gray weather, it is comforting to remember sunlight and how it can put a song in our heart. I...

212 artists, 542 beautiful paintings! I was happy just to be included in this show but to have "Northwest Meadow" receive one of t...

Fanciful is about color play and pushing colors just beyond believable for a whimsical view of the world. It is another of the 5x7 pastels f...

About a month ago I joined Daily Paintworks and to date I have posted 10 paintings. What fun! My thanks to all who have commented, encoura...

Good news today! I learned that my paintings "Cedar River" and "Summer Evening" have been accepted into the Internationa...

Thanks to Kay Dewar of Dewar Design, my website has received it's annual update. Artwork Archives and About the Artist have new images a...

This was so fun, wheee! This is step 2 of Morning Frost Line (20 x 20 inches, oil on wood panel). I'm working on value. As you know, I...

I'm pretty excited to try Morning Frost Line in oil so here we go... I have it on my phone as wallpaper and by the time I'm done w...

This is a scene of our off-leash dog park, early morning before the frost melted. The shafts of light coming through the trees give it a h...

What better time to paint a rainy Pacific Northwest spring scene than a few days after Thanksgiving? Another 5 x 7 inch painting for my Dail...

Still finding my way around the Daily Paintworks site, today's 5 x 7 inch painting for sale there is "Lavender Sky."

Good news today! I have been elected a Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America (PSA). Yay! Today's Daily Paintworks painting ...

Today's 5 x 7 inch painting for my Daily Paintworks Gallery is an abstracted view of a bright yellow meadow. This painting is about col...

I'm happy to be included in the Fall 2011 6" Squared Exhibition. Here is the information and my three paintings.

Today's 5 x 7 pastel for my Daily Paintworks Gallery is "Northwest Passage."

Today's 5 x 7 inch painting for Daily Paintworks is "Woodland Path."

Puppy Annie was entertained by the lawnmower and leaf blower outside today so I was able to paint all day for a change. The Long Way Home, a...

I have finally posted a couple small paintings for sale at Daily Paintworks! These are 5 x 7 inches, pastel on Ampersand® panels, unfra...

Another scene from Mt. Vernon, Washington reference photos taken in September. This one is called "Queen Anne's Lace" for the ...

I finally figured out a way to keep the pastel dust off of my computer while I view the reference photo on the screen. I set the laptop on ...

With another birthday approaching, it occurred to me to review all the paintings in my studio and divide them into two categories: those I a...