--> Step 3-Define Volume I live in an area where the sky is often overcast.   I love these neutral and gray skies, which a...

Step 2-Simplify the Subject My landscapes are my impressions of a place, not a copy of it.   I do not want to paint every leaf and eve...

 Follow Your Heart  |  pastel  |  10.5 x 12 inches  This is a reference photo of the scene at Point Defiance Park, Tacoma, Washin...

It's official. My husband and I finally own property on the lake where we have been looking for many years. With this dream coming int...

I am honored to be included in the No. 111 edition of the French magazine, Pratique des Arts! Of course, I don't speak or read French bu...

All together now...the nine small pastels from this summer. They are for review first by a collector of my work then some or all will be ...

I'm ending the week with "Windmist," pastel,  7.5 x 7 inches. I think that will be the last of these small paintings for a w...

This little painting took a lot of work, trial and error, patience and perseverance - a metaphor for life. For my lush life, I am enjoying...

Every once in a while I have a day of "spinning my wheels." To me, a good day is a productive day. That's a problem. I kno...

Same colors but in different combinations and amounts. This is Afternoon Passage, pastel, 7.5 x 7.5 inches.

To continue my post of yesterday, a backlit tree-lined hilltop has emerged. Apparently there are many backlit scenes in my memory. ...

You may know that I have a habit of washing off pastel paintings and reworking them from the ghost-image up. This time, I cut up an old p...

Here's a shot of my new plein air pal...the Pastel Porter . It arrived yesterday (an award from the recent PSWC show). I had a chance ...

The days following my Landscape Impressions workshop were spent with my two grandsons (ages 11 and 13) to make a busy, fun summer week. I ...

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 ...

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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...