Time for only one painting today. I photographed the painting, turned the image into a grayscale in Photoshop, printed it out and used it ...

Posting each day's work on these two oils might be too much like watching paint dry. In the end, I can print the images and staple the...

Another hour of painting on these two this morning. Now, a wheelbarrow of Italian prunes to deal with. I think I'll just eat as many a...

These cooler days and crispy nights are my favorite time of year! A project for Women Painters of Washington has filled most of my week bu...

Found another painting to rework. The original painting was high-key and a different scene (see below). The rework is a scene from a dog-w...

Now, that's better! The new and improved "Wenatchee River" is cooler in color temperature and darker for a change of mood. T...

I'm coming to the end of my list of mediocre paintings to be reworked. "Wenatchee River," painted in 2007, had enough redeemin...

I've been painting on this same piece of Art Spectrum paper since 2005. In that year, I painted "Softly" which survived unti...

I received several inquiries about this painting (and votes for the title "Zombies at Dusk") so I thought I'd post the unfra...

My grandsons, 10 and 12, are spending their last days of summer vacation with me. I reworked this 2005 painting today and they suggested t...

This is my third... and final I think...interpretation of this scene. River's Edge was first painted as a vertical pastel in 2007, the...

This 8 x 6 inch oil color study for a pastel painting "Shadowland" will be my last oil for a while because I have committed to a...

After looking at that tight version done many years ago (see my last post), I wondered what I could do with the scene again. The top ph...

The painting on the left is "River's Edge," pastel on paper, 25 x 18 inches, painted five years ago. The painting on the rig...

When I came across the reference photo for a painting that ended up in the mediocre group earlier this year and was reworked into another...

I came across the reference photo for a scene I've already painted twice: once in pastel in 2007 and then as an oil about a year later...

The little 6x6 study really helped me get unstuck on this painting (see my previous post of July 31). Love that subtle glazing process but...

aaahhh...pastel. There's nothing like it! After a seven month break from pastel and a journey into oil painting, I'm back. This i...

 I've been glazing this 20x20 inch oil almost everyday for more than a week. Changes are so incremental that I am having a hard time e...

There is something about cherries that is cheery. A symbol of summer and sunshine? 6x8 inches, oil on panel. "Cheeries" is sold

Look at my lonely pastels in the background...so sad. In March I began working in oil and I just can't stop to return to my 'prima...

This is the Rose, an illustration for Colored Pencil Solution Book (page 106) - aaah it does my heart good to see it again. I still ap...

I love fir trees and wanted to paint this one, standing watch beside a rivulet, but it seems the smaller the format, the bigger the challe...

Today's post is a couple detail shots from a 20x20 inch oil interpretation of a very small, detailed pastel painting, "Twiligh...

Every artist and their work evolve. My art career began as a fashion illustrator working in pen and ink (black and white). When I moved to...

Oil Study #10 is our backyard pond and flower garden painted from a reference photo taken last summer about this time. It looks s...

This is the painting on linen canvas that was in my July 9th post, painted from a photo taken on our January trip to Hawaii. Weather on Ma...

Today's post is my Pepper. This was painted quite some time ago and resurfaced during my latest studio cleanup. I remember cutting this ...

Sometimes I have to just stop, clean off the counter in my studio, and line up the paintings I'm working on to keep myself sane. The c...

As some of you may know, I co-authored Colored Pencil Solution Book , published by North Light Books in 2000. I still have my illustratio...

Remember the wood panels I was preparing? That was June 18th ( click here to see the post ). Well, I wasn't happy with the texture of th...

The painting that had the happy accident (see 7/2/12 post) is done! Titled "Waterway," 8x10 inches, oil on panel.