Five artists joined me for my two-day plein air pastel workshop, Landscape Impressions 2013. We had gorgeous weather for what might become...

Warming up for my Landscape Impressions workshop next week. The first step is an acrylic underpainting. Pastel painting of our little p...

My last post was about painting from memory. The painting above left is a memory painting; the one on the right was painted from a referenc...

This week I painted from memory. No reference photos, no plein air painting. It was freeing and exciting and was reminiscent of the year o...

Good days in the studio! I think I have a "nuance" series going on here in pastel. Minimum detail - loving it.

More playing in the studio. Another 7.5 x 7.5 pastel in cool colors on a warm day.  Soft focus, loose, interpretive with minimum detail.

To fill requests of the galleries who kindly represent me, the first half of the year has been spent painting more of the kind of work th...

After early-morning watering of the flower gardens and blueberries, I closed the windows and doors against the heat and spent the rest of ...

An early start in the studio this morning on a new pastel, tentatively titled "Forgotten." Shown here are the two steps of the u...

I usually schedule work for galleries and shows using my computer database but when I have several galleries to rotate at once, it gets ...

One of the highlights of my summer will be the installation of six of my paintings (four pastels and two oils) at the Puget Sound Blood Cen...

A couple weeks ago, I helped install "Sunfall" at the Puget Sound Blood Center Lab in Renton, Washington. This week I started a ...

I was selected for this book so long ago that I forgot about it until today when I received notice that it can be pre-ordered at Amazon or...

I'm not a fan of traveling...a day spent at home in my studio is the norm for me but it is my favorite place to be. Whe...

In the summer of 2010, as an experiment, I painted the same scene twice. The first painting, "Summer Sojourn," went to a gallery...

Yesterday, I received the first copies of my book! It was a unique project with my part completed in record time. One morning in mid Aug...

May 10th, I posted "Young at Heart" in progress and after 12 days of painting and pondering, I'm calling it done. 24 x 24 in...

I LOVE my good old Airfloat shipping boxes and this morning I am using them once again to ship a couple paintings to the IAPS show. Over ...

Dawning • oil 6x8 inches purchase information

When I teach, I encourage my students to make thumbnails but I usually forget to make them for myself. My workshop with Lorenzo Chavez la...

Yesterday I received a very special honor: Life Membership in Women Painters of Washington .  Thank you WPW! This distinction is given i...

I had hoped to post the finished oil version of "Young at Heart" by now but the past week has flown by. I rarely take workshops ...

"Young at Heart," 24 x 24 inch oil is coming along. I'll pause again for a few days to reflect on this.

Ahhh...that helped move me forward. I enclosed the pastel color study in a poly sleeve (whichever poly this is, it doesn't create stat...

Young at Heart • 5x7 inches pastel In my post of April 26th, I showed you the foundation for a 24 x 24 inch oil - "Young at...

Suddenly it is the end of the month and time for another painting from my studio for the Studio Sale link. About 10 years ago, I co-author...

 Tentatively titled "Young at Heart," this is the first oil (24x24 inches) from the Pt. Defiance Park reference photos. Above: t...

I went on a spring photo shoot yesterday at Point Defiance Park, Tacoma, WA. Lots of fresh yellow greens, end-of-winter hazy lavenders and...

  • Spring! pastel 7x5 inches

In an effort to cut down on the amount of paper in my life, today I'm using this method for transferring a reference photo image to my...

I am done with winter. It is time to move away from the wintery Nisqually Wildlife Refuge reference photos and on to spring. For this la...

A lot has happened to the painting in my March 25th post . I answered some of the questions posted there and then asked and answered more....

Finally! Here is the news I've alluded to a couple times on my blog since last August. Art Answers: Pastels Drawing will be publish...

This is a demo from a private class today, another scene from my Nisqually Wildlife Refuge reference photos. Working with 3 values and kee...

It's the first of a new month (almost) and time for another Studio Sale posting. This month, watercolor painting, Trilogy • is loo...

A bright spot on our dog-walk is a Forsythia bush now in full bloom. I wanted to paint it as one of the first colorful signs of spring. ...