I mentioned in a post a few weeks ago that I’d been inspired by one of my mother’s photographs.  I won’t show the source photo, because #1 it isn’t mine Read more

A few months ago I wrote about my long struggles with this piece and this canvas.  I worked at the piece again after some encouragement from Sam, and I think Read more

It started off with a sketch. Which became another sketch. Which gave me something to do with that horrible monstrosity: I considered painting over this- but I decided to take Read more

Everybody has quirks.  My mother is  no exception.  One unique thing about my mother is a penchant for shipping strange items across the country or bringing them in her luggage. Read more

This is a detail shot from a painting on unfinished poplar I’m working on.  It is a portrait of a family member that I found this great emotion packed photo Read more

I have three new paintings that are nearly finished.  My thoughts are elsewhere, however.  Every month my expenses go up (okay, sometimes not every month – but January 2010 brought in Read more

Two of my new paintings are “finished”, but I want to show them to some other people before I say for sure.  They both have some very obvious flaws, so Read more

Saturday began with a trip to Landmark to see Avatar with Sam, her sister and brother in-law.  I don’t know if it was because it was my second time seeing Read more

On new year’s eve Sam invited me to go with her to dinner and join her friends and friends of theirs.  There were eleven of us eating at the Dragon Read more

Wednesday morning it was time to leave our desert hotel behind.  We headed to the airport at the ungodly hour of 4:30am PST.  (of course, my mother gets up this Read more