Bringing the Everyday to Life

Hello Everyone!     As I am looking out my window at green hill after green hill, I am reminded of a conversation I had recently with a fellow artist about the color green.  We were discussing how hard it can be to paint green for landscape painters.   I had to agree.  Moving from Utah where green was an accent color to Pennsylvania where green dominates the scene, especially in summer.  Spring and fall of course have amazing colors and I love the winter colors here.  But, what about summer?  I often tell people that PA has too much green and a lot [...]

Hello Everyone!   Today I am going to share a struggle I had lately...  Some paintings come naturally and really do tend to paint themselves.  I feel more like a vehicle.  However, there are those paintings that don't come easily and I struggle with.  This painting, Harold Square, NYC, is one of those paintings that has been in the back of my mind for almost a year.  I painted this sometime last October.  At the time, I wasn't totally pleased with the final result, but I could not figure out what was wrong with it.  Why was I bothered?   So, I painted [...]

With the start of school, I have been sad to see my kids go but also excited to start a schedule where I get more painting time.  With raising two young boys, I often get asked how can you have time to paint?...  That is what I would like to discuss today.  First, I would like to say that all mothers, both working and stay-at-home moms, have a lot on their plate.  We all have to make choices about what our priorities are.  We can't do everything that seems important, we have to choose.   When my youngest was born, I decided to [...]