Putting A Bird On It

It would seem I'm currently into a pink series.  Two new cards for spring.  I'm still loving the abstraction of a random bouquet and I hope to pass that enthusiasm on to my class June 9 at Dakota Art in Bellingham.

Spring Chicks

Once again, I was privileged to share everything I know about watercolor with six creative ladies at Bellingham Dakota Art.  The four-hour class yielded six beautiful works.  I think everyone did a fantastic job and I hope they take what they learned and create many more paintings.

Spring is coming

Working on some new spring florals.  Warm January weather brings out the gardener in me.

Retro Dial-Up

This was the life line to the world beyond the walls of my childhood home.  It was a very important piece of technology, one that could mean the difference between staying home or being out with friends.  Not too much has changed.

A White Christmas Somewhere

Although it's uncharacteristically warm here in the Pacific Northwest corner of the U.S., I'm confident that somewhere there will be a white Christmas.  Good for them.  We don't have to shovel it this year. 

9-11, 2018

Wisdom, Focus, Freedom.   Time doesn't erase what happened on that horrible day.  We can only resolve to be watchful and see that it doesn't happen again.

Into the Greige

Anyone who knows me very well, artistically speaking, knows that I am IN LOVE with the whole GelliPlate mono printing process.  I have spent countless hours creating monoprinted papers, without any real regard for their future use, just because it is so fun to make the prints.  Well, I have finally pressed forward into uncharted territory (for me) to use these papers in collage and I am over the top excited about them.  Above are the first 3 collages I've mounted on 8" x 10" cradled boards.  Working in the same neutral color combination makes them seem to belong together, but each one is completely different from the next.  There is a metallic gold shimmer that can't be reproduced here, but adds drama to each piece.