I have wanted (pined, yearned, fantasized, longed), for several years now, to have new living room furniture.  Well, just a couch would've been super! But a huge, miraculous blessing of a gift came to us this Christmas earmarked for new living room furniture and other home beautification "needs".  I have been giddy with the comfort, … Continue reading More Sanity Drawings

The week prior to Christmas I began a new sketchbook and titled it on the inside cover: A Book of Sanity.  My intent was to try to squeeze out bits of time for drawing here and there, to help maintain some sense of sanity in the midst of the hub-bub of the holidays.  The first … Continue reading Book of Sanity

A very Merry Christmas to all my friends both near and far, both face-t0-face friends and world-wide web friends!  I hope this day, the first of twelve days of feasting, will be filled with joy and peace, rest and rejuvenation, love and inspiration! A must-read for you this holiday is a Christmas story written by … Continue reading A Very Merry!

I seem to drift back into one-liner drawings when time is limited.  This method of drawing is very centering and meditative, which I'm in huge need of these days!  I have a little tabletop white tree this year in my studio.  Some of my sketching/painting supplies are set under the tree for lack of another … Continue reading A Holiday Line

Ooh, this was too much fun...colors, textures, patterns...yum!  Yet another version of the "broccoli bushes" you've seen here, here, and here. Life is increasingly holiday-crazy around here which makes for very little creative time.  I've got to carve it out somehow and I'm hoping you can do the same in the midst of all the … Continue reading Collage Bushes

I've been making pages of these little images for years.  They are just for me.  Just for the fun of putting down watercolor in little blocks.  To breathe, as it were, and expand a bit on the wonder of color, line, texture, etc.  They are ramblings, stream-of-conscious painting, exhalations.  When life gets really busy, like … Continue reading Petites Prières

Waiting up late this past Saturday night for my oldest daughter to return from her high school Winter Formal, I decided to draw to keep myself awake.  I worked from a photo of Maddie drawing in her big tablet. Perhaps I should do more late night drawings:)

Last year, about a week after Maddie returned home from Brenner's, our dear next-door neighbor gave her an Elf on the Shelf.  If you've never heard of these little guys, click here, to discover the world of the Elves who visit in children's homes for the duration of the holidays.  He came with a book … Continue reading Elf on the Shelf

These sculpted bushes stand at the entrance to our neighborhood as a trio of sentinels, or a welcoming committee.  I've always loved them, longed to paint them.  Here's version number one.  I have plans for lots of different approaches to painting these guys.  They are too fun, in a Dr. Seuss sort of way, not … Continue reading Broccoli Bushes

There seems to be, for each of us, a place we go to unwind, to refuel, to throttle down from the ever-churning to-do list of our days.  For some of us, it is to sit and draw.  Others read books.  Some knit or crochet.  There's an endless list of where we go for solitude, solace, … Continue reading Where we go…