Zen – 1997-2009 – Our beloved dog Zen passed away on March 10. Zen was a Japanese Tosa, a rare breed in this country. He was the runt of the litter and when my husband Bruce adopted him he was suffering from parvo. A little bag of bones weighing less than 10 pounds, […]
What an intensely focused few days I’ve had. Starting with the unsolicited, much appreciated and extensive help from my good friend Sheila and her husband Paul, a smart web wiz from academia, I have now successfully moved my entire website over to this blog. Actually Paul moved it but I helped! Isn’t it cool? With
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I have been completely enjoying fall and winter, the months I get to just paint paint paint. It is akin to hibernating. I travel a lot in the months from May through September but the colder months are usually spent here in Eureka where I show at my favorite local gallery, Art of Wine. Started
One of my favorite new surfaces to work on is UART sanded pastel paper. Similar to Ersta, which was not ph neutral and therefore not a suitable choice, the UART has a great sanded surface that holds pastel well. Unlike Sennelier LaCarte, which is great for slowly building glazes of color, the UART creates a
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I’ve been focusing much of my energy, in spite of the occasional detour, into exploring images of water in various settings. Water as a theme opens up the opportunity for creative exploration as well as its metaphorical and contextual meaning. Last week I was back in love with my LaCarte pastel card as a working
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This is my first day of my first blog…ever. I still have to play with all these tags and tools and settings and links and yadayadayada but for now I simply blog. Today is a great day. My daughter is no longer in finals so I don’t have to pick her up at 12:45 from
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