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 …
Tree of Life With Phoenixes & Wherever Light Is
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 …
Color palette simplicity
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 …
From the Art By Cedar Archives: Fireflies
“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 …
From the Art By Cedar Archives: Towering Trunk
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 …
Happy Mother’s Day! Last Day of Spring Sale
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 …
From the Art By Cedar Archives: Birds at Sunrise
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 …
From the Art By Cedar Archives: Moonlit Daisies
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 …
From the Art By Cedar Archives: Life Cycles of the Apple & Cherry Trees
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 …
New Year’s Art Projects
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 …