The Love Oak | Art to Symbolize Family Love
Here is “The Love Oak.” This painting is a commissioned work for a couple celebrating an anniversary. They wanted me to illustrate a metaphor they used with their children to …
Here is “The Love Oak.” This painting is a commissioned work for a couple celebrating an anniversary. They wanted me to illustrate a metaphor they used with their children to …
These 2 paintings are quite different from each other, but I’m sharing them together because I painted them at the same time as commissioned pieces–one made for a mother and …
The practice of identifying the essential and cutting out the rest is a crucial skill for artists when it comes to every facet of designing an art-based life. On this …
“Fireflies” from 2005. This is a painting of a soft purple night. A warm, insect-buzzing, summer night out in the country. The original sold long ago, this poor-quality photograph is …
This painting from 2005 is called “Towering Trunk.” It’s an exciting painting to me because it shows that at this point, I was fully into the genesis of my “Looking …
Tomorrow is Mother’s Day! Several of the paintings sold over the past week were a mother’s gift to herself or a gift selected for the honored mother in someone’s life, to …
This was the year I started painting flocks of mysterious birds in silhouette, some sitting still and others in raucous motion. My inspiration was not only the movement of the flocks …
This sweet little painting from 2005 is called “Moonlit Daisies.” Even then, the moon, and flowers, were both a big inspiration to me–still the case today! This is very much …
In both these pieces from 2005, I was playing with a fun concept: Portraying all the stages a fruit tree goes through, from flowering to fruit, to dropping seeds that …
I’m back to work after visiting with family for two weeks over the holidays. Happy New Year! In the studio on this sunny but frigidly cold first week of January, I …