Winter Walk, pastel, 5 x 7 inches Click to Buy   This might be my last Friday afternoon session painting for a while because it is...

This is a follow up to my March 10 post. In that post I began work on two paintings done from one reference photo. The painting on the l...

If you are like me, over the years you have created paintings that become personal favorites and end up in your Collection of the Artist....

On the easel today at about 50% complete: Two 5x7 studies of a simple country scene. On the left, the sky is blue, the grass is green... I...

Lemon #5, pastel, 5 x 7 inches sold Another little painting of color, texture and light.  Once again, on Pastelmat but this time I wa...

Wild, pastel, 5 x 7 inches Sometimes I push a pastel painting past the point of no return. When the words "labored, contrived, swee...

That's a screen shot from my Facebook page about the three day workshop September 30 through October 2, 2016. My thanks to NWPS Presid...

The 17th Annual Pastel 100 Competition Winners have been published in the April 2016 issue of the Pastel Journal. I am honored to have be...

Pink Grapefruit #3, pastel, 5 x 7 inches sold More fun with grapefruit. Love this subject.

This is a photo of my little sun-room office. Keyword is little. I have two work surfaces that I swivel-chair between. One has my lovely b...

Leavenworth Afternoon, pastel, 5 x 7 inches sold It has been years since I was at Sleeping Lady Resort in Leavenworth, WA but I find ...

Pink Grapefruit #2, pastel, 5 x 7 inches sold Such a fun subject to paint! I took a couple progress photos but then got so invol...

I have fallen in love with a pink grapefruit. Yesterday I sliced one up and took two dozen reference photos. I deleted a few photos, cropp...

Citrus, pastel, 5x7 sold I'm continuing with my fruit series, this time with a side-lit lemon. This series is about pushing color a...

Cutie, pastel, 5 x 7 inches, sold Last week I had the pleasure of being a speaker for Women Painters of Washington at Seattle Art Mus...

Marble and Tomato - RED, pastel 5 x 7 inches Two shiny red objects. A marble and a tomato for my Friday painting. I've painted lots ...

I have been in my new Studio almost 9 months and I finally painted ONE wall a lovely Rose color (Sherwin Williams 6318...