For the past few years, my studio walls have been blue, the same color as a wall at the Women Painters of Washington Gallery, Seattl...

Each evening, my husband and I play a game of cards at the round oak table in my Studio. From where I sit, I can ponder the work on my eas...

 The next step for me was to lighten the lower left corner to balance all the drama in the top third of the painting. I selected two yellow...

Next, I selected two values of the same blue, one just a little lighter and brighter than the other. I applied the blues to the back...

In my last post I talked about comparing yourself to yourself. That is, your very best work to your not-so-great paintings. I thought you mi...

When I accepted the award at the NPS show this weekend, it was gratifying to have my hard work acknowledged. There is no area within that ...

I'm very happy to post the news that "Edge of Winter" received Best of Show at the Northwest Pastel Society 2012 Members Exh...

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I thought the process of my resolution for this painting might be interesting to you. I took a photo of the image and printed it out. Then...

  I'm still working on the two oil paintings I've been posting but this afternoon I took a detour to my pastel work stati...

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...